Originally Posted by
Gargleblaster
Have you considered editing the helipad entirely out of your plot ? A helicopter can easily land without a pad to settle on !
No. And once again, had my opening post been left intact ... (yadda yadda) ...
The news crew needs to land on the mountain top for the purposes of my plot. And I can't think of any other reason to force the news crew to land there except that it's where a designated helipad is.
And now I have a NEW question for all of you: would a news crew feel the freedom to just bypass a helipad, if the heipad were inconvenient, and merely land in some farmer's field?
Again, this is a question of plot credibility. I am of the couch-potato understanding that helicoptors have much more leeway to land wherever they feel like in a country/rural setting than they do in a large city. My story takes place in a small, remote, Southwestern desert town. Considering the remoteness of the towen, could my news chopper pilot have taken liberties and merely landed wherever he felt like and not gone through the formality of landing on the mountain?