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What is the legal difference between a heliport and a helipad or is there a difference at all?
MightyGem
12th Feb 2003, 02:10
Heliports generally cover quite a large area, so that you can take off with a normal transition, with enough room in front of you to land back on in the event of an engine failure below a certain height/airspeed combination.
Helipads are usually quite small so that in order to be able to land back on safely in the event of an engine failure, it is required to do a vertical or backwards take off.
More or less:hmm:
GLSNightPilot
12th Feb 2003, 04:51
IANAL, or I Am Not A Lawyer, so I can't give you a legal definition, but I've always thought of a heliport as a place that has a number of helipads. Heliport as a derivitive of airport, & helipad as a substitute for runway. Of course, a heliport could have only one helipad.