Vfrpilotwhatever,
Newby Bridge is in Class G airspace. And the Swan Hotel is not marked on any of my charts as an active helipad. Therefore you and the other pilot were operating on the 'see and avoid' principle. Looks like it was sorted out at the time, but obviously not to your high standards of airmanship. . Bose-X has got it spot on about rotary pilots.
If I posted a thread on Prune every time some twit had annoyed me over the last 20 years of flying in the UK, I'd have enough material to write a book! Volume 2 would be about rotary pilots who don’t care about rotor downwash..
What if I admitted to it? What are you going to do about it?
Chill out and enjoy the freedom of Class G airspace while you can. File an Airprox or MOR if you are that concerned by it, and see where it goes. Can’t see the CAA or Airprox board doing much about it, especially as you don’t know what the other aircraft was. Sounds like you need to come down south on a busy weekend to see how ‘See and Avoid’ works.
Dublinpilot,
However as a community, I think we can sometimes be too quick to jump to someone’s defence and say something is not illegal, when clearly it is not safe, and does nothing for the cause of GA freedoms. We should not be condoning unsafe flying.
Who said it was unsafe??? And who said we were condoning it? My point is that we shouldn’t be using Pprune as a 'dobbing-in' forum for those who annoy us when airborne.
Have a nice day
