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Old 10th Jan 2013, 20:40
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Toptobottom - presumably you have not heard of the 'zero-doppler notch'? The reason you disappear from the Heathrow radar, when in the hover, is that it can't tell you from ground clutter because your radar return isn't modified by your speed in the hover (unless it picks up on the edge of your rotor disc).
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