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0:22 A while ago I used to have this starting sound as a ringtone at my phone. 😃

Love that “C” Tom , she’s beautiful ! Fantastic condition !!

That sound, the sound of a turbine starting never gets old. Its like the first time I've heard it everytime!!!

I don't think McDonnell Douglas or MD Helicopters ever made a 500C model. That should of be a Hughes 500C.

cud of been slower....we only see most of this from roadways......

Finally someone showed what is actually going on.

Parker Dam Havasu The gorge Topock Laughlin Davis dam Mohave Pat Tillman bridge Hover dam Henderson. Great video

That’s got to be the fastest helicopter in the world . LoL 😂 👍

That was pretty good. The ending look like you had the MD on a stick.

This is the best engine starting video ever! Thanks!

Absolutely Fantastic I can smell the Jet A, the photography was awesome, It reminds me of when I was alot younger and Mom worked at Hi Lift Helicopters in Plymouth Mi and I would hang out during the summer, I was able to go up with some of the pilots now and again......What a great time!!!!

Amazing views. I miss Vegas area, always loved the vibe and feel. Don't like the strip life, but the town just has a certain character you don't find in other places. Same way I feel about Havasu. Has its own vibe.

I would love to know the cords to this. I have looked the last 2 hours on sat maps trying to find it. I even tried to look back at past flights and I would love to look at the area in sat maps and see if there was anything in the area. I did randomly find something else that looks squarish on Apple Maps in a drainage at 35.89835° N, 114.73598° W. Probably just a shadow hard to tell on my end. On a side note, you get around. I used to live by Tonopah NV and saw you have been around there, and currently am by Riverside, CA, and you have been there too. One day I want to fly in a 500, amazing bird. My dream is to go up the river around Havasu and up to Topock Gorge.

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Great video - I'm about to re-create this flight in both MSFS and X-Plane using VR, the MD500E and the awesome collective I just got along with my cyclic and pedals.

Always enjoy your video. Here’s an interesting story about number audio system coded messages. czcams.com/video/cfv6nm4ykLY/video.htmlsi=XgaFVZfqrkpQTct- That last transmission I heard something about sending shooters to the roof.

FM broadcast band is quite close to VHF AM comms. Sounds to me like an intermodulation spur from an FM broadcast transmitter. Likely this is an active site.

That’s a live fm radio station You are I’m near field and it was roasting the front end of the avradio It happens all the time near high power stations and you where writhin about 1 air mile of the TX site

Beautiful to seeing the Sunrise

Love to do this flight for you and the start up is the best sound ever

Love to be flying with you in your 500 in the right seat while you’re enjoying the flight over this Beautiful terrain

You experienced an event called “mixing” of radio signals in your receiver. This can happen when you are near a high-power transmitter such as at that tower site. There appear to be dozens of antennas visible at that site. Many of those repeaters and transmitters are most likely active. We know one is for sure based on your consistent and repeatable mixing event. Mixing is a common occurrence however, I’d be a little more concerned about getting too close to a high-powered transmitter and having the unusually high-powered signal interfere with the helo’s FADEC or other control system. Remember, RF leaves no fingerprints. Great content, great video, super great helicopter!!!

Most pilots try to avoid communication towers

I was a comm specialist in the Army. Something obviously isn't decommissioned there. It's still quite active for that to happen. Yeah, you're just getting lit up by RF when you passed through a beam and it's bleed over. And the comms I heard sounded military and obviously unsecured and in that area it's probably range control somewhere. Marines or Navy I'd guess.

Fancy your health and your wallet, don't be that dick who flies infront of directional radio links and disirupt them. Same with idiots with drones.

Sure hope you can fly your helicopter this Monday to find a remote spot in the Umbra, to watch the full solar eclipse far away from the crowds!

Good editing, the sounds are balanced, I'd say time well spent.

Post this video at regular speed with the sound of the heli, and you'll have a crowd pleaser👍🏻😎

Those are microwave transmitters and good idea to stay out of the line of the sight, or you will get fried 😬🤷‍♂️

Do you see all the microwave rx/tx? There's your problem my friend.

High power AM or FM radio station

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Very common. you're super close to the transmitter. Nothing anormal on this. Happens when you drive very close to radio towers and suddenly you're getting all the channe;s on your car radio. It's just a sign that you are close to a strong radio source.

6:40 “Ground we have shooters on deck right now” - Sounds like you picked up an aircraft carrier! Or, a land-based naval base…

So it’s obvious this station is still active

I was once parked at an airport parking lot and somehow a private phone conversation came over my car radio… I just sat there awkwardly listening to what seemed to be a husband and wife talking about what to get for dinner. Never could determine if it was cellphone based or, if I was picking up a 2.4 ghz wireless phone somewhere nearby…So strange.

If I'm in a helicopter and it starts making any kind of unidentifiable noise. I'm telling the pilot to get over some water cause I'm jumping out.

Intergalactic communications 🛸 👽 🚁

You're flying directly through a point to point microwave antenna beam. Or an AM broadcast radio relay. Those TD-2 towers used to be the "internet" in the US before there even was an internet. Heart of the At&T long distance telephone data system. In places where you want cell data but can't easily lay fiberoptic they still use the site to site microwave antennas like this. The towers you flew past first are a mix of old (probably discontinued) TD-2 horn, newer Site to Site microwave antennas, and cellular antennas. The wires to your headset are probably acting like an antenna and are attenuating the signal. Same thing really as how old school GSM text messages used to cause home speakers to buzz before getting a text or call. Shielded cables or a ferrite bead on your headset cable would act as an inductor and blocks hi frequencies, while still letting your analog audio lo frequencies pass.

It was from the microwave towers. They are definitely active.

" unidentified " lol Any basic ham knowledge tells you what that was. 73s

Thanks for another cool desert adventure in 500! Watch out for those shooters on deck!!

The two tones I heard in the first sound was a “Roger-Beep” when a ham radio operator lets go of the mic. So I would say that there’s a ham radio repeater up there. I don’t see any solar panels so us tax payers are paying for the station. The other “shooter” was from military aircraft radio. Wow! Lots of interesting bands up there to listen to!

If there was a water source drilled inside that site…. you may have just found the ultimate zombie apocalypse hideout 😏 🤣👍🏼

Give us a Tour on your Hughes 500C, incl. Performance data and costs, please....

Those signals possibly coming from the tower with long sticks of omnidirectional antennas next to the salmon coloured small building. Possibly they're high power public safety radio repeaters VHF or UHF band. Skirts, harmonics of their high power transmitter outputs may interfere into your VHF air band radio to trigger its squelch to open. Sometimes Air traffic Control authorities also put transmitters in remote mountain tops to cover wide areas. Love your channel. Cheers from Turkey

When you're that close to a transmitter, you don't need an amplifier. Those white drum shapes on the towers have concave microwave antennas inside. You're flying right through the tightly focused beams. If you could see the microwave energy it would look like blinding bright spotlights coming from the towers. Did you feel a little warmer flying through those?

That sounds like a broadcast station strong enough to infiltrate your audio system. It can be heard on multiple harmonics of the transmitter and when you get close like you are, the harmonics will overpower the front end of your radios. I do believe that some microwave sites are still active and some are being used for scientific research and signal propagation tests.

Thanks for taking us along on your adventure again! Cool site. I wonder if the radio chatter was from a Gunnery range nearby?