Not a bad view from the back either. For the non-flyers out there, a little bit of info: There's about 75' of aircraft behind us when we're sitting in the cockpit and it is often impossible to know what's back there or under us. We get a good feel for things as we fly around, but while hovering in tight quarters or over a slingload, we simply have to do what we're told. Columbia uses huge bubble windows and long lines to pick up their loads using a technique called Vertical Reference. We can't do that so we have to depend on our flight engineer and crew chiefs to tell us where to go and where not to go. Essentially, they're flying the aircraft by giving commands to us up front. Here, Nick is watching the boom stick and letting us know what it's doing. Worst case in an emergency, he'd grab that yellow stripped handle and pull until the load goes bye bye. Better that, than the entire aircraft and crew!