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Old 23rd Sep 2004, 08:41
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Vfrpilotpb

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Burg Al Arab(or whatever its called)

I saw on the box last evening a new(to me that is) TV advert showing several aerial views of some old lady getting into a copter and taking off, what a spectacular ad!

I know this has been discussed before,
but that ad did impress moi!

But heres my technical question for you pro guys,

at that altitude you would need high power to come to a virtual crawl in a very high hover to line up and approach the platform, how quickly and what effect would the platform have on the heli, in that the platform suddenly becomes ground level and the heli is under major power input and very coarse pitch,

Or would you come into a much higher hover over the platform and then let down gently?

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