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Old 06-06-2004 | 09:46 AM
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From: London, US MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS
Default RE: Questions about hovering

My field only allows helicopter training after 2 years straight membership because they apparatnly had alot of problems with large amounts of the public wanting to fly helicopters.

There is a small patch for felicopter training and when you have you lisence you can go and fly in the nomrla fixed wing airspace.

The field has very stingent safety rules because we are in London and the public are everywhere, the land is expensive to rent so we have a very small landing area which is grass to land on, if you can land at my field you can land anywhere!

There as of yet no rules regarding 3D including hovering maoevers but if you were hovering near your face like the experts they might tell you off even though you are fully capable.

You can hover over the landing area if you want but its ommon courtesy not to, piloyts must shout out TAKING OFF, LANDING, DEADSTICK and LOW PASS so taht all flyers know what they are going to do, this is especially helpful when you are landing and there is a heli or 3Der in the way.

Hope this helps, you can ask more questions if you like.

Shahid