Originally Posted by
jayteeto
You are all missing something here. None of the other pilots are dong this. Why does the pilot who got a talking to need to do this?
Sounds like a tool to me.
Oh yeah, I forgot that I have extra footage of that.
10 seconds after the blue helicopter landed, a white helicopter came in to land too. Here's the video of the white helicopter and I've noticed that this one always seems to stay much higher than the blue one does over the horses.
https://youtu.be/KcTSW9DnvE8
For easy comparison, here are screenshots of each over roughly the same spot:
Blue helicopter:
http://i.imgur.com/Fbbvjqx.jpg
White helicopter:
http://i.imgur.com/6OBdESK.jpg
Originally Posted by
aa777888
If that is what the helicopter is doing now, then is there any problem anymore, other than idle curiosity?
No problem currently, no. The height that he's flying isn't bothering the horses, I just feel like he's inching ever lower because he does still fly lower than the others. The curiousity had me wondering whether that's for a technical helicopter-related reason or not.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
Originally Posted by
Fareastdriver
Think yourself lucky you are not in some parts of the UK. There your horses or cattle can be quietly munching away and a thundering great big Chinook doing about 120 knots appears over the hedge.
That must be awful. It would be nice to instil some more brains into horses so that they don't panic as it can be pretty upsetting to lose a horse to someone else's actions whether it was intended or not.
Originally Posted by
RatherBeFlying
That said landing aircraft are allowed to come down low. Unnecessarily low over people, structures and animals is a no no.
Thanks for the link, I'll check that one out too. How does someone on the ground actually calculate how high or low a helicopter is flying?