Making them up!!!! Nobody can make up the FAR's, they are stolen from
the POH of an alien spacecraft held in Area 51...

Anyway, nothing I like better than a good reg's fight, unfortunately my
FAR/AIM is at home and given the insanity of my business at the moment
I may or may not get to it... The background of my statement is the
fact that my home field has helicopter traffic, that I have mostly
ignored for decades - or maybe it is my failing vision - anyway, this
issue came up after a pilot got his undies in a wedgie after seeing a
helicopter flying a right pattern whilst he was on a left pattern...
So, a small hoo-haa occurred in the lounge in front of my wondering
eyes with the fixed winger doing the 3 year old tantrum routine, while
the rotor head merely shrugged and moved on... To satisfy my idle
curiosity as to the rightousness of the rotor guy, I called the FSDO
and inquired about the regulatory basis and the inspector quoted the
biblical passages (long gone from my memory) and stated the FSDO
expected choppers to pattern opposite the fixed wing traffic for mutual
visibility, subject to local rules, barometer changes, wardrobe
malfunctions, etc., etc... I looked it up at the time and by golly he
was right...
But, if you continue casting aspersions upon my infallibility then I
shall be forced to counter with - logging PIC time, IFR in Class E
airspace, owner manufactured parts - and you don't want me to do that,
do you?

But we digress - as usual - from the main point, that choppers operate
under different rules than fixed wings and if you see one down low over
a Wally World parking lot, he is likely not bending any regs...


Cheers ... Denny
Denny