Originally Posted by
puntosaurus
Bingo ! Failure of a power unit.
Everyone remembers the 500ft rule and the 1000ft rule, but because this one doesn't have a snappy title. it tends to get forgotten. Yet it's the first in the list of rules, and it's the one that carries the least exemptions.
Then again, not everyone reads down a bit to 6.d.(ii):
(ii) Any helicopter flying over a congested area shall be exempt from the land clear rule.
CD,
That's your opinion to which you are entitled: many of us would disagree
