With a lot at stake and not a lot of room for error (quite literally), as Chuck Tamburro, himself put it: "If I made a mistake, I would be killed." The stunt was so obviously dangerous that the scheduled camera crew tasked with shooting the close-ups refused to take part in it. Proving that he's not one to ask of others what he isn't willing to do himself, Cameron said "okay fine, I'll shoot it" and shot the stunt with the help of a very courageous insert car driver. The only thing more impressive than Tamburro pulling off this stunt is that he pulled it off twice. James Cameron needed to capture two different angles: one from behind the helicopter and one in front of it. A full crew worked for two weeks just on the pre-rig. During the chase scene (overpass excluded) the police helicopter used by the T-1000 was hung by a moving crane to make it look like it was flying, which safely allowed for shots of Robert Patrick firing and reloading his gun. One of the most challenging parts was lighting the sequence, according to the film's DP Adam Greenberg: "we had to light up the Long Beach Freeway for five and a half miles, just for this one scene the requirement of the director was that we do all five and a half miles in one piece, at one time, so we would be able to continuously shoot the run. Jim wanted to be able to shoot the sequence from the helicopter, from an insert car, from all over. It was tricky." Apparently they had to rent every existing cable from every studio; "there weren't enough cables in Holywood to run this five and a half miles!" According to Greenberg, the shoot lasted for about three weeks of night shoots on the freeway.

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