Min visibility in most parts of the world outside controlled space for helicopters is if you can see enough to stop before you hit it!
As indeed it used to be in the UK until a few idiot pilot killed a few passengers as the concept of 'well the rules say it's OK' took precedence in their decision making process. And clowns like this give the authorities the excuse to further curtail the regs.
No doubt EGOS was crap at the time although it is 25 miles away!
And EGBB was 22 miles in the other direction. So what?
I suppose dropping his machine into a playground full of kids was 'just one of them things', huh?
Yup, 80m viz. Not sure aircraft type, bigger than an R22. Luckily, I was positioned one side of a small 'valley' he was on the other and were almost at eye level with each other. I measured it out today and the distance from one side to the other is about 40m. Rear rotors approx 3ft off ground, ground slopes around 40 degree gradient..say no more!
And yes JoeC, those were about as big as I was trying to make my hands!!!
Subsequently found out he landed on a school playing fields and that the school children were on the fie,d at the time. Oh well, any port in a storm?
CAA dealing with it I understand.
Simon