I don't know if looking way off in the distance while landing a helicopter and hovering it is the most accurate way to do it....
.... been sitting here just remembering where I was looking when we used to land the S61 on the deck of the barge we used in the heli logging business as our base away from base.
The landing pad was not all that big and there was a big superstructure in front of the landing pad......we had about maybe fifteen feet from the rotor disk to the superstructure when we were in the center of the pad.
....ahhh now I remember ......I was looking at the touch down marks on the landing pad and the wall in front of the blades...not way out in the far distance.
Last edited by Chuck Ellsworth; 17th Apr 2013 at 01:01.