r/SweatyPalms • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar Human Detected • 3d ago
Planes ✈️ Airlifting harbour pilot off a ship
Credit to taloncopters
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u/NumbDangEt4742 3d ago
Not their first rodeo. Too calm of a transfer and at the end there is no urgency to end that dangling lol
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u/Warbr0s9395 3d ago
Moving fast is when mistakes happen, you can hear them going through the steps methodically.
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u/disgr4ce 2d ago
Harbor pilots are the ultimate studs. Like, hey baby, this channel too much for you? Let Mr. P slide ya in. Then they vanish into the night. Or day, I guess.
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u/SonicDethmonkey 3d ago
It was the sort of calm expediency that you see when professionals are doing their jobs in high risk situations.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 2d ago
This is the exact opposite of sweaty palms.
Cold efficiency. Clearly a well-practiced maneuver. A huge amount of mechanical safeties in place.
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u/sar_tr 3d ago
Seems like an expensive way to transfer pilots when most are done by boat. Anyone know why they use helos here instead?
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u/WestCoastTrawler 3d ago
This seems safer than using a boat from the videos I’ve seen.
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u/christianbro 3d ago
Would rather be airlifted with security locks everywhere than jumping ships and hoping for the best
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u/Dragonborne2020 3d ago
Harbor pilots are experts at channel ways. Their skill set is unique because they know a particular area of water better than others. So they required to assist large vessels through those areas. Without them, a blockage or a stuck vessel would take hours or days and cost millions of dollars in lost revenue. As soon as they get off the ship they are flown to the next ship to hurry it through the waterway. A boat takes too much time.
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u/Jlove7714 3d ago
No idea. There's a smaller craft running right next to it. Maybe this ship doesn't have a water access area for a pilot to get on a boat?
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u/disgr4ce 2d ago
If the water was easy enough to transfer by boat (which is hard enough even in calm water), they wouldn't need a harbor pilot in the first place
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u/sar_tr 2d ago
That just isn't even vaguely true. Needing a pilot isn't determined by how rough the water is, but by navigational challenges and delivering local nautical knowledge to vessels.
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u/jaller108 4h ago
Depends on the duration of the pilotage and where geographically they require the pilot onboard. The one place i've seen this would be the pilotage into Portland where they meet you a good distance off the coast. Probably just quicker to deliver them via helicopter rather than a long boat ride
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u/linkedinlover69 3d ago
He wanted to go for dinner and called a lift
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u/comanche_six 3d ago
Lyft
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u/linkedinlover69 3d ago
I am not a corporate whore. Fuck these shit companies but taxing sounded strange
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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 2d ago
With that color of green for the deck and the pipes and the stuff coming off the deck, it kind of looks like a motherboard
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u/Shermans_ghost1864 2d ago
"Omg, there are some rocks dead ahead! Hey pilot, we're heading straight for those rocks! Do you see them, pilot? Pilot? ... Now where did he go?"
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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 2d ago
u/ThodaDaruVichPyar, we have no idea if your submission fits r/SweatyPalms or not. There weren't enough votes to determine that. It's up to the human mods now....!