A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube helicopter flight over Red Rock Canyon narrated by pilot/commentator Taz Christman. The speaker describes local traffic, altitude calls, scenic color changes, and real-time flight handling—particularly using local wind updrafts to climb rapidly while keeping escape options available.
And Red rock traffic. Helicopter 557 Delta Charlie's over the campground headed towards the Visitor center at 3,800ft. All these cars lined up going into the Red Rock area. Oh, wow. And Red rock traffic. Helicopter 557 Delta Charlie's over the visitor center. 4300 taking the right hand turn up to Red Rock. Red rock traffic. Pierrot 1 is exiting Gateway Canyon. 4500 Eastbound Red Rock. And Red Rock traffic. Look over 5.5 Central Charlie's turning into Gateway Canyon. 4th of 5,300, Casino. 215. 4000 or eastbound back into our town. Last call. Northwest. Pretty crazy, huh? Flipping amazing. The colors, how they change is just. Yeah, it's just freaking mind bogg. So since I know that the winds are coming out of the north northeast a little bit, that's why I'm staying on this side of the valley instead of the other side. So the wind's gonna go up the side of the valley here. You can see I've got a 500 foot per minute climb and I'm not really even doing anything. I'm not hardly pulling any power. That's just. That's just from the updraft. And I didn't even realize we were climbing. Yep. And if I need to make a turn away from the mountain, obviously I got all the way over there. And I'm turning into the wind as we. Always leave myself a way out. So I've got plenty of turn to the right that I can do as I'm climbing on up here. Kind of follow this little ridge here as it makes that right hand turn. We just climbed about 2,000ft. We're still going up 500 foot per minute. That's nuts. Just keeping that wind on the my right side if I can. There are times when you can turn, you know, you might have to turn away from the wind. But making sure that we've got plenty of space to do that. Now I can tell the wind's coming up over those ridges right there off our right. So I'm just gonna kind of stay right over here on this side. I've still got an out to my right. Still doing almost 500 foot per minute climb. I'm only pulling 20 inches. That's amazing. Look at that thousand foot per minute right there. Jesus. And I'm doing 20 inches. That's just riding the elevator up with the wind. Oh my go. It.
