Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder writes:

We aren't talking about hovering over the highway we are talking about a
VFR flight between two points.

In the article that gave rise to my comment, the pilot was indeed hovering
over the highway, in a helicopter.

Just for the record here is your first post in this thread. Nowhere do
you mention helicopters.

Mxsmanic wrote:
"Is it a bad idea to fly VFR at night and navigate by following
highways? At
night outside large cities, there doesn't seem to be much else that's
visible.
It seems to me that if you can clearly see the highway, it can guide you and
you can get a good idea of where you are with respect to terrain, so it
should
work. Are there hidden dangers in this? Do night VFR pilots ever/often
navigate by following highways? What other forms of visual navigation are
usable at night?"



Once again you show your ignorance. An engine failure in a helo hovering
at 10 feet is just about the worst place that such a failure could happen.

Explain.


It is high enough to kill you and too low to perform a proper
auto-rotation. As forward speed increases the ability to perform a
proper run-on landing increases. In a run-on landing you are pretty much
treating the helo like a fixed wing.