What happens if you fly into a storm in a helicopter

• What happens if you fly into a storm in a helicopter

When I lived in Turkey in hotels Maxx Royal, a couple of times flew from one complex to another by helicopter. Once, on the way back we got into a thunderstorm. Given that I am writing about this event in the past tense, you can guess that a major tragedy has occurred. But also pleasant, to put it mildly, it was not enough. I've got a similar story in the world of Frans Joseph and least like its repetition. Although at first nothing boded ill: we were flying over the coast of Antalya and enjoyed the views from Kemer to Belek ...

Our helicopter landing in Kemer:

Maxx Royal Kemer, luxury hotel

Circled around the Cape:

Kemer - city, resort and port on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, about 40 kilometers from Antalya:

In Kemer countless hotels for every taste and price:

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There are big and noisy hotels, there are quiet and secluded hotels

This is, incidentally, another Turkish hotel with its own golf course, but it does not go to any comparison with the Maxx Royal Belek. Plus, the hotel itself is well removed from the sea:

The beaches and hotels in Belek:

Huge complexes. All of them, as a rule, made a crescent to the sea:

Sunbeds:

Maxx Royal Belek.

So: back from Belek, Kemer, we were in a bad weather. Seeing a storm cloud, the pilots decided to fly right through him (not in the very center, where the lightning flashed, and a little to the right):

The idea failed: as soon as we came under a cloud, a sharp gust of wind pulled the helicopter banked and dragged him to the side. The photo was taken in a couple of seconds before. On the water, you can clearly notice the storm border:

The pilots immediately launched a turntable 180 degrees, left out of the clouds and began to bend around a large arc thunderhead. I had only to look at the passing by the cloud with rain and wind:

Lightning flashed right and left, but it was not possible to photograph them. These frames are made primarily on a long exposure, which in conditions of shaking the helicopter was impossible:

Part clouds hung just above our hotel. I had to go down as low as possible and, under the guise of wind gusts over the mountain, go to the landing. But nothing happened!