chopperdude,
This is dirt simple and about 20 people have answered it. The scale does not change. See my post just above your last.
Try to imagine this one as a swimming pool:
You are sitting on the bottom of a swimming pool wearing scuba gear, slightly negitively bouyant so you must paddle to stay off the bottom. The pool is mounted on a big scale. The water, pool and you are all registered on the scale. Now you swin lazily off the bottom and paddle around for a while. While off the bottom, does the scale show less total weight?
This is exactly the same question as the helicopter question, but the answer is more obvious. The scale does not change in either case.