Originally Posted by
Ewan Whosearmy
I am therefore curious to get the opinions of seasoned helicopter pilots other than the person in question as to what sort of risk assessment is done to determine whether such operations can be undertaken, what sort of waivers are required to do them, and what precautions are taken (i.e. clearing the streets below) to mitigate risk to bystanders below.
Unless these seasoned helicopter pilots are in the same line of work they would not have the answers to your questions and there aren't many pilots that do that line of work especially at his level.
I'm sure they will have dotted all the i's & crossed all the t's and if you have 20000 hrs with a perfect safety record doing this kind of work you know what you are doing.
Still don't understand why you don't ask him these questions unless you have another agenda.