Night Landing at Van Nuys Airport VNY

VIDEO: Fullerton - LAX - San Francisco

Fullerton - Los Angeles - San Francisco, incl. ATC and LA Class B transition

Notes about this video from the pilot:

My wife and me, departing at the Fullerton airport, passing Los Angeles and flying over the LAX international airport via the 'Mini Route' Class B transition. 
Finally, we fly to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The plane is a Cessna 172 with the G1000. We rented it from the flight school 'Westwind Aviation', which is located at the Phoenix Deer Valley airport.
The cameras are GoPro HDs, the music is No Pants Friday by Lee Rosevere.

VIDEO: Landing LAX 24R via Sadde SIX Arrival

A ride-along with this cockpit view of an airplane landing at LAX via the Sadde Six Arrival.  The video starts in Thousand Oaks, goes to the the coast, south to Santa Monica, then inland following the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10), then the craft turns right near Downtown LA, then west over Watts, with a landing at LAX. Unfortunately, there is no ATC audio in this video, but what a great visual trip.

VIDEO: Twilight Landing at Whiteman WHP

Caution! The audio is loud!

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VIDEO: LAPD Helicopter landing

Landing at Van Nuys in a Helicopter.

LAPD Air Support AS350

One of LAPD's Air Support Division's newly liveried Eurocopter AS350s passes the Hooper Memorial Heliport - it's the "black and white" of the sky. Photo taken on Nov 4, 2010 by DAVID BERGER / LA Observer / via Flickr

Real Estate Helicopter Tours

Real Estate Agent Russ Filice show homes from a helicopter.

TV Helicopter Sky 9 makes Hard Landing @ Whiteman Airpark

Los Angeles' Daily News reported on Nov 12, 2010:

Sister stations KCAL9 and CBS2 report that engine failure forced the hard landing about 8 a.m. Friday at Whiteman Airpark in the Pacoima.

Pilot Derek Bell says that as soon as the Eurocopter's engine began to fail he began autorotation and quickly brought the craft known as Sky 9 back to the airfield.

The helicopter's tail struck the ground and broke off but the craft landed upright on its skids.

image via Daily News server

See more photos after the jump.

Helicopter Raw Video, Missile Launch off of Los Angeles Coast 09-NOV-2010

Video of the November 09, 2010 missile launch from 35 miles off of the Los Angeles coastline.

Video shot by a KCBS/KCAL Cameraman Gil Leyvas from a news helicopter in Los Angeles that shows an object shooting across the sky and leaving a large contrail, or vapor trail, over the Pacific Ocean. Pentagon can't, or wont, Explain 'Missile' Off California Coast.
"Whatever it was, it was spinning up into the sky kind of like a spiral," and was easy to distinguish from condensation trails from jets, he said. "It was quite a sight to see. It was spectacular" said the cameraman.

The FAA has said that no aircraft were in that airspace at the time.

Here's the Fox News report:

Take a tour of a LA Sheriff's Helicopter

Tactical Flight Deputy Clint Hughes of the Los Angeles Sheriff Department's Aero Bureau gives a tour of his patrol operations helicopter, an American Eurocopter AS350B2 "ASTAR", N971SD, one of twelve that the department has. 


These Helicopters run 24 hours a day in three hour rotating shifts. The crews fly two 3-hour hops during their 10 hour shifts.