Wow, you are getting brave with that thing. We just had a SAR right there a few days ago and used the Jet Ranger, you could have done the same recon via FPV and HD recording.
SAR = Search And Rescue operation. It was for the man who jumped out of his boat to get his dog and then never returned. He still has not been found. We had the Jet Ranger looking for a fire in the area and they went looking for the man instead, but then something happened to the engine and it made an emergency landing at Hog Creek boat landing (you can see hog creek from your video when you fly to the East). Still don't know what happened to the helicopter, it lost engine power and thus rotor RPM decayed off, I guess it was not a full auto rotation, but close enough. Here is the news story: http://kdrv.com/news/local/251514
SAR - I should have gotten that one, sorry. Did that happen today or yesterday? I was at the boat ramp and was going to make another video from there but there were a lot of cars so I just left. I didn't see any helicopter there.
It was Thursday if I remember right, the helicopter stayed over night and left the next day. As far as I know the search was called off at this point.
No, the dog is fine. The Rogue River is a very un-forgiving place. If I recall correctly there have been 7 lives claimed down there since summer began.
