Originally Posted by
B Sousa
Helicopters are so versital you can put the pad wherever you want. Some consideration is usually given for noise abatement and safety. By Safety Im talking about the ability of the helicopter to utilize the pad within its flight envelope, either loaded, hot days wires etc. Other than that pads are placed where they are for econmic reasons and for the convenience of the operator.
I guess I'm being leery of two things here, both are issues of plot credibiity :
1) Wouldn't it make more sense for there to be a chopper pad located right inside of my small town rather than out on some mountain all the way outside of town? Do I need to dream up an excuse for there to be no working chopper pad within the town limits? What can anyone here tell me about when choppers are FORBIDDEN to go into a town? You mentioned power cables and noise. How about health cnsiderations of kicking up dust (it takes palce in a desert town)?
2) Is wind a consideration for placing a chopper pad up on some damned mountain, when the desert floor would maybe be safer and less windy?
And on that second point, I don't know a thing about wind considerations for a chopper. I have a couch-potato education on helicopters--which means everything I know about them I saw on TV. And even I know that probably more than half of what I learned from THAT arena of schooling was most likely total crap. (Thus am I here.)