Hovering in the Dark?
Last evening at about 2250hrs our local area was visited by the Lancashire ASU from Warton, obviously looking for some night workers or nasty person(s), the night was clear a new moon was in the west and it was pretty dark, ASU heli was at about 750ft and hovering absolutely dead still for what seemed like stints of 4 to 6 minutes, then a little move left or forward and then resuming the high hover, again dead still.
After watching this for long enough to get cold I started to think how do you come to a complete standing still hover in the dark,
so for those night Pilots out there, How is it done, if you have no horizon to fix on, is it pure instruments or do you have some sort of auto-pilot that will do this for you?
My regards
Peter R-B
Vfr