Tower: 'I have three helicopter below you in the traffic pattern'
someone: 'I have two of them in sight...'
Tower: 'Maintain your altitude until turning base, cleared to land'
Questions: ('cleared to land' => controlled airport)
How can tower clear some to land who has three helicopters below him in the pattern, but did report seeing only two of them?
Especially w/o sequencing him "cleared to land as number three" or something?
To my ear this sounds like a sewere ATC mistake, or am I mixing something up?
(Is the one responding at 0:22 the one directed to stay at 1000ft until base? Is that the SR22?)