POV shot, being hoisted from the ocean into a hovering MV-22 Osprey 200 feet overhead. OC

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jeansntshirt@reddit

TBH i was pretty dissapointed you didn't look up ONCE while being hoisted. I want to see what the osprey looks like from behlow as a hoist is being used. Ya never looked at the Osprey!

Also if these are all Marines why no MARPAT? All wearing different cammies than usual

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feralraindrop@reddit

I wonder if the guy was pretty much blown dry by the time he made it to the aircraft?

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Lucky-Somewhere-1013@reddit

Are you in Hawaii? Looks very beautiful.

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Yes my friend! This was in Kaneohe Bay!

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ashes_to_fire@reddit

Did you see the great white shark fin right behind you?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

The downward from the osprey made it a bit hard to see lol

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ashes_to_fire@reddit

What aircraft will you eventually fly? Which action camera did you use to film? Did you use a mouth mount for the action camera or a head mount? Which post editing software did you use. TIA

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GoPro on the front of a helmet, Vegas pro 22 software. I’ve been aircrew and flying for 15 and a half years, this was a refresher for me but it was obviously a special one because we don’t get to be hoisted out of the ocean from a MV-22 often. I don’t want to say what I fly exactly because people pick it apart and ruin opsec lol

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roxbox531@reddit

Did the jet ski just drop you off?

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ThePrussianGrippe@reddit

At least the training’s dope. Looks like a fun day!

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ashes_to_fire@reddit

Thanks for the info! I have a DJI Osmo action. They are more reliable compared to GoPro. But ymmv

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Knook7@reddit

Where in the video? I can't find it

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Meth_Useler@reddit

this is a tiger shark breeding ground

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Sylvas808@reddit

Kaneohe bay is a Hammerhead shark breeding ground

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TheBlacktom@reddit

The US is not a good place to live for a couple reasons, but these kinds of stunts definitely make a lot of countries envious of a proper military.

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Not here to talk politics. But I had fun

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TheBlacktom@reddit

I'm not talking about politics either.

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Kaladin3104@reddit

Be there tomorrow! Anything you’d recommend to do as a civilian on the island?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

What are you into? Hiking? Or food? Orrr??

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Kaladin3104@reddit

All of the above. Wildlife, museums, want to drive around the island one day. I’m there for 2 weeks.

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

You’re on just Oahu for 2 weeks??

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Kaladin3104@reddit

Uhhhh… yes. Its my little sisters college graduation. Family got a place to stay on Oahu. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Ahhh, well I’ll shoot you a DM tomorrow for some good fun and hikes and food. To tired at the moment to type it all out, I gotta go to bed dang it! lol. but you’ll have a great time here!

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architype@reddit

I wonder if it was your Osprey the other day. I heard hovering and had no idea what the marines were doing. :)

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ButtersWorth124@reddit

Was curious why I was seeing so many on flight radar today! Super rad

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

This was actually like 3 weeks ago ish.

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LuigiVampa_@reddit

I could almost see #13 of the Klipper course in the distance. My favorite bay.

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Strontiumdogs1@reddit

Is this the British army medic from the parachute video. He went to an island to help treat a Hente virus patient?

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Techhead7890@reddit

Nah, Brits don't use V-22, that's solely American. He'll catch the regular ferry off the island once he's done treating the patient -- and with how long that disease can stay latent, that'll probably wrap up in like a month or two.

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AlexLuna9322@reddit

That’s basically the POV for the fries leaving the fryer!

Nice

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Techhead7890@reddit

Lmao that's hilarious. I wonder if anyone has ever actually re-enacted that (with cold oil in the fryer) for a training video or something.

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randytc18@reddit

I bet that is tough to swim in that wash. Cool video!

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SnazzyStooge@reddit

That wash is no joke, it’ll seriously toss you if you aren’t careful.

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iBlockMods-bot@reddit

Tell me more..

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SnazzyStooge@reddit

Flew a bit too close to a -22 doing rappelling drills. I got pushed around, and I was in an airplane. The guys underneath the Osprey did NOT look like they were having a good time.

I did water survival training with an H-60, and that wash alone was hard enough to swim against. Then again, maybe that’s why the -22 was so high up, I think my -60 was at a 100’ hover instead of 200’.

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iBlockMods-bot@reddit

That sounds very naughty. Was it all intentional?

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SnazzyStooge@reddit

Sort of. Tower had them hovering right off the side of the runway, then cleared me for a touch and go. I don’t think any of us thought we’d get as close as we did.

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iBlockMods-bot@reddit

Even reading about it my lips are quivering! I'd have been a wet mess afterwards..

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

That downwash was the worse part of the whole thing, you’re right, swimming against it sucks! lol

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PreparationHot980@reddit

How does the basket remain properly oriented and doesn’t spin like crazy or anything?

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BladeEater23@reddit

Kaneohe bay! I see you.

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fussinghell@reddit

Amazing footage but what happens in the event of an engine failure to that Osprey

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mixblast@reddit

There is actually a shaft that goes along the wings and can drive both rotors from a single engine.

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RoooDog@reddit

You go back in the water

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Truest statement…

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marCOOLEYa@reddit

Kbay?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Kbay indeed!

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muck2@reddit

Nice!

Ha, I love the "remain seated" inscription. Who would want to stand up in that thing.

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ABoutDeSouffle@reddit

Who would want to stand up in that thing.

Me. You can hold onto the overhead structure, and I would have to fight myself to not stand up and look around and down. I am dumb this way :)

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Mr_j93@reddit

You laugh but the reason it’s there is probably because someone did it!

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CaptureLag@reddit

“Remain seated” sounds obvious until you remember somebody probably tried to stand up mid ocean sky elevator.

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muck2@reddit

"Look, mom! No hands!"

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Mekroval@reddit

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Castun@reddit

"Honey, I've been dead for years, remember?"

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ImYourHumbleNarrator@reddit

i would have preferred a harness to the sign personally

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TheBlacktom@reddit

I would add a "Hang in there" cat picture and some encouraging text, like "We got you", "Enjoy the view" or "Sorry for the loud noise"

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PendragonDaGreat@reddit

That's what I was thinking. You'd need a razor blade to remove my butt from the floor until I was in the plane.

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chocorange@reddit

Sooner or later someone is going to stand up to get their book out of the overhead locker.

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welguisz@reddit

Please be careful when opening the overhead bins because objects may have shifted.

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DasMo19@reddit

Neat!

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TheOzarkWizard@reddit

200ft hoist is wild

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

I agree, but man the downwash was strong enough at 200 feet up. If it was 100 feet, idk that we would have been able to swim to the basket! It would have blown us away!

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Live-Pea4081@reddit

Wait are you the medic?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Nope, I’m aircrew on a completely different plane, just practicing being rescued from a water landing

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SimkinCA@reddit

Lake?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

No, Kaneohe Bay

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MyDespatcherDyKabel@reddit

Excellent POV

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here4daratio@reddit

Nah dawg that’s def a GOV

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

I hate you… take my upvote….

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MyDespatcherDyKabel@reddit

What’s your Instagram profile? Would love to see more of these

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

I can’t even recall the last time I posted on instagram, my instagram is pretty blank, sorry!

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MyDespatcherDyKabel@reddit

Never mind… Beautiful stuff you’ve captured , that too in super HD, kudos

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CharAznableLoNZ@reddit

Thought all the guys had rubber duck floaty rings for a second, had to back up and check.

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Close enough lol

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Novel_Manner4483@reddit

Amazing machine.

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Fl_Funky_Jam@reddit

Anytime I see hoist videos I always get anxious and think of that poor woman spinning at 29000rpm+ when getting rescued in the wilderness 🤣

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OCFlier@reddit

That lift was very slow. I know the hoist is capable of going much faster

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Hard to tell in the video, but the basket was swaying a lot, so they slow the hoist the basket got closer to the aircraft until the basket is more stabilized.

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dsaysso@reddit

curious theres no safety latch for them to hook into? with all that swaying i thought osha might get nervous. :)

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OCFlier@reddit

That’s true about slowing at the top of the lift. The hoist can run at over 200 ft/min and looking at the video timing, it’s pretty close to that.

I worked on building these hoists, including this one for the V22 and I’ve operated and been lifted many times. It’s a wild ride 😁

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DaHozer@reddit

What years were you working on these? We might have worked together.

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PigSlam@reddit

the lift starts roughly 20 seconds in, and gets to full height at the halfway point. If the lift is 200ft as OP said, then that's faster than 200ft/min.

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CrapMaster32@reddit

what happened to put you in this situation

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Training

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CrapMaster32@reddit

training for what

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

For aircrew to be rescued in case they go down in water. Aka, a small part of water survival training for us aircrew.

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WeeblsLikePie@reddit

a great deal more hardcore than what we do in offshore wind. We get dunked in a pool and hoisted out via a winch on the ceiling.

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devoduder@reddit

ARMY TRAINING SIR!

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BuddahSack@reddit

That's the fact, Jack!

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C-57D@reddit

Where's your drill sergeant, men?

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BuddahSack@reddit

Sgt. Hulka... he's our big toe haha

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devoduder@reddit

BLOWN UP SIR!

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ScarHand69@reddit

What was the plane full of a bunch of PFCs wearing their Mae-wests?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

This was a training, not exercise, but opportunity. The marines flying the osprey wanted bodies, MOS/AFSC didn’t matter. Simply volunteer and throw on the life jacket and you get hoisted!

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ImNotSkankHunt42@reddit

Do they have to be warm?

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Castun@reddit

Helps if you want to keep your crayons softer.

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devoduder@reddit

I loved those “opportunities” in the military, did some cool shit that way.

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U2ElectricBoogaloo@reddit

Im going to guess training mission.

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spoiled__princess@reddit

Is that a skidoo running off? How will it get back home?

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DiscoDiscoB00mB00m@reddit

I couldn’t stop thinking about the grandma who went on the gravitron airlift in az.

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start3ch@reddit

That is such a surreal video! Climb into a basket and get hoisted up into the sky, by what looks like a plane, except for the fact that it’s hovering in place.

Also osprey’s are way bigger than I expected inside!

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idk_mybff_josie@reddit

Hey I can see my house from here, I was wondering what all the Ospreys are doing in Hawaii

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DesertRunnerX@reddit

Great video and what a badass machine… love the sound.

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

I was already dead enough as it is, but yes, I loved this sound!

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Lopsided_Quarter_931@reddit

sees Osprey

"Guys i think i'm good here, water isn't too cold anyway"

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

🤣🤣

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JasonIsFishing@reddit

As a former SERE instructor I never got tired of the fun of getting hoisted (except via the forest penetrator).

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

YOU are the ones who organized this whole thing to get me into the basket. So thank you!

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JasonIsFishing@reddit

Thanks! It was right? Never got old for me in 15 years. Everyone talks about the miserable parts of SERE, but there’s a lot of fun parts just like this.

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

As aircrew, I honestly freaking loved my initial back in washington, as well as all my refreshers (I’m an outdoorsy person). Even my extra class that I took as aircrew, which I shall not mention here lol

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JasonIsFishing@reddit

SV80 is a bunch of fun. Camping trip that we benefit from. I taught it my first 4 years. As for SV-91….

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

My extra back then was SV-93… 🤣

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JasonIsFishing@reddit

“Advanced beating”

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

2011, and yes that was the name, and that is what I got 🤣

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JasonIsFishing@reddit

It’s a good thing. Some jobs have special resistance needs. I often didn’t know what my student’s job was, especially with civilians. If folks are entitled to sensitive things they are entitled to sensitive training as you know!

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terrainflight@reddit

You’d pick the strop over the penetrator? I’ve never rode the penetrator, but the strop sucks so hard.

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JasonIsFishing@reddit

Penetrator has a nylon/non padded strap, but you have to straddle the solid steel seat on your nuts. The big advantage is that it can hoist 3 people, and in combat it’s less time on station which is obvious priority.

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GC_Aus_Brad@reddit

The giant fan above you would dry you off fast lol

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brettles84@reddit

firstly, that is cool as fuck.
second, being airlifted from any heli would be cool as fuck, but from an osprey? hella cool as fuck.
thirdly, my only sadness is that if it were me i really would looked up at least once for that extra cool as fuck shot

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

We thought the same thing, but in the moment, after swimming against that crazy downwash, trust me, you get lost in the sauce lol

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brettles84@reddit

i do not doubt you in the least, just jealous 😄

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A_Coin_Toss_Friendo@reddit

How many tickets to ride this ride?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

At least 7 🤣

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Rutabaga258@reddit

Gives me Deep Blue Sea vibes

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Shockwave2309@reddit

Ewww imagine how sticky wet the clothes are after that :c

Could never do that

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Hard to tell, but I hope you’re being sarcastic…

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Shockwave2309@reddit

Nope

I really despise wet clothes that just stick to the skin

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

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Shockwave2309@reddit

Just like all the other close to 9 billion people who lived on this world so far...

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

I’m just giving you a hard time mate. I love the outdoors, wet clothes don’t bother me, so I’m just giving you a rough time as bro’s do lol

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Shockwave2309@reddit

I hate having hard ons while at work :c

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Tell your boss you need a smoke break, then get in your vehicle and drive to the badlands of South Dakota. They’ll understand…

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Shockwave2309@reddit

That would be a 11.350km drive... not sure if I get petrol in the pacific tho...

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

You’ll make it work, I believe in you 🤣

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dawtips@reddit

Dude you sat there like a champ

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Sat like a champ, giggled like a 3 year old on Christmas. It was so much fun lol

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locust911@reddit

In honor of the US president, this team shall henceforth be named "Cradle Snatchers"

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

This was not meant to be political…

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JeanutPellySam@reddit

Talk about a bucket list opportunity..

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Jettyboy72@reddit

TIL the Osprey is able to hoist. Not sure why I never thought it had that capability

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Jukecrim7@reddit

It also has a retractable gun

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eniretakia@reddit

Incredibly cool, but also, I’m so glad it’s you and not me.

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

That’s fair, but I had a freaking blast! Can’t tell from the audio, but I was giggling like a 3 year old on their birthday as I was being hoisted up!

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VanillaTortilla@reddit

Everything seems pretty normal, and then the tailboom appears in the top of the frame. Super crazy to see.

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Imgjim@reddit

Very cool, Oahu?

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Kaneohe Bay herself!

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Imgjim@reddit

Figured! I was in makaha December to mid January and saw a ton of ospreys around, as well as a bunch of jump training. Good place to end up in the water since it's almost always 76*!

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rovingtravler@reddit

Great video! That is a high pickup. We did 75 ft normally. 100 to 150ft if the waves were bad so the swimmer and isolated person did not have to fight the rotor wash as much.

Have you done hoist ops with any other aircraft? How is the downwash compared to others, H-60, H-53...

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TayloidPogo92@reddit (OP)

Me personally, this is the first time I’ve done hoist ops in like 15 years. The last time I got hoisted was in 2011 being hoisted like 20-30 feet into a Huey back in 2011. So this was absolutely amazing to me!

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