Helicopter Buzzes Wal-Mart

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I realize that helicopters have a lot of flight freedom, but it is
still shocking to see one flying directly towards oneself like this.

Why? It is always flying towards somebody.

But not at eye level, which it almost was just a few seconds before
that photo was taken. It was climbing rapidly when I took that shot.

Anyway, if that helicopter is
only 50-70 feet up it is an RC model. I know that you insist that you
were
there and know better, but what did you do, use a tape measure? How
the heck
do you know that it was only 50-70 feet up?

I know it wasn't 1000 feet up, as someone suggested. I might accept 200
feet feet, as an outside stretch. 100 feet does not look like an
unreasonable estimate.

That's home to first base. The downwash would damn near flatten people.

Hell man, the rotors are 26-32 feet in diameter (MD500).

Get a set of dividers and measure the diameter of the rotor and then
translates that to vertical distance.

It's probably 500 UP and 100-1500 yards AWAY.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Judah wrote:

You paid $600 for a camera that takes longer to boot up than Windows and
even longer to process a picture?

There are more important things to consider when buying a digital
camera --
unless all you take are "birthday party" shots.


Yeah...like "birthday suit" shots.


Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

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Coincidentally, an assistant manager at that store told me last week
that I was not allowed to bring my camera inside the store. He cited
security risk,

He's most likely full of crap. They don't want you photographing prices,
products, people, etc.

The reason I know this is because I was assigned to film a person purchasing
tools and parts from a hardware for a television project and the assistant
manager threw us out as soon as he saw the camera without letting us
explain. (Told the manager it was too bad...would have been free publicity
for the store, shown across north America. He invited us back but of course
production was finished.)

-c

Dan, you are dealing with the FAR's... I'm not guessing, I'm quoting
them


Have a good un...

Denny

Which one are you quoting? I have a helicopter rating and I am absolutly
sure neither of the CFIs or the examiner ever mentioned a thing about it and
you would think the exaimner might mention it when I entered the pattern on
the wrong side of the airport.

They are picky that way.



"Denny" wrote in message
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Dan, you are dealing with the FAR's... I'm not guessing, I'm quoting
them


Have a good un...

Denny

"Denny" writes:

Dan, you are dealing with the FAR's... I'm not guessing, I'm quoting
them

If you had quoted them, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

All I found from a quick search was this AC which contradicts your claim:

http://www.avweb.com/news/features/184492-1.html

To which FAR are you referring?

d.

"Matt Barrow" wrote

Let me tell you about the running shot I made on a deer at 500 yards!
--
Matt

That ain't nothin'! First game I ever took, I didn't have time to get the
12 gauge up to the shoulder, before the rabbit would have gone into a briar
patch, so I shot from the hip.

When I cleaned it, I found only about 5 pellets in the head/neck, and
nothing in the body.

Sometimes, better lucky than good!
--
Jim in NC

Matt Barrow wrote:
"William W. Plummer" wrote in message
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Helos are used to police major power lines in my area. My guess is
they are less than 50 feet above the lines. Everytime I see them fly
by I just give thanks that I don't have that job.


Like these? http://mdhelicopters.com/gallery/MD5...0_SCE_0012.jpg
http://mdhelicopters.com/gallery/MD5...0_SCE_0007.jpg
http://mdhelicopters.com/gallery/MD5...0_SCE_0087.jpg


Great pix! I got a charge out of them.

Dan Girellini wrote :

"Denny" writes:
Did you know that choppers are required to fly the pattern at the
airport in the opposite direction of the fixed wing traffic, i.e.
going directly at them on base leg? (nope, etc.)

I don't think this is true. It is the case at my home base
(Princeton, NJ) and maybe at yours too, but how could the FARs require
this? It would generally defeat the purpose of any airpot having a
right pattern for a given runway if that just meant rotorcraft were
going to fly on the other side.

Oh! Denny is just making-up regulations again. :-) I thought that
he stopped making them up about a year ago, but he is back at it again.

Here is the regulation that he thinks that he remembers.

Section 91.126: Operating on or in the vicinity of an airport in Class G
airspace

(2) Each pilot of a helicopter or a powered parachute must avoid the flow
of fixed-wing aircraft.

An FAA Advisory Circular on the subject states that helicopter pilots
*MAY* fly right-hand patterns if local rules permit.

Bob Moore

I have a helicopter rating too. At an uncontrolled airport, the fixed
wingers fly left pattern, pattern altitude 1000' - we helis fly right
pattern, pattern altitude 500', usually land on the ramp or taxiway.



"Gig Giacona" wrote in message
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Which one are you quoting? I have a helicopter rating and I am absolutly
sure neither of the CFIs or the examiner ever mentioned a thing about it
and you would think the exaimner might mention it when I entered the
pattern on the wrong side of the airport.

They are picky that way.



"Denny" wrote in message
oups.com...
Dan, you are dealing with the FAR's... I'm not guessing, I'm quoting
them


Have a good un...

Denny