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If you do need a heli, you are hardly an average person, are you? And aren't helis mostly used when you specifically need the ability to land on a building or

• mdorazio 10y ago
  In general, yes, but there's a fairly large market for filming with helis since you can mount nice camera equipment unrestricted by fixed wing fuselages, propellers, etc. and take nice, slow shots at low altitude. Of course, this is being replaced by much cheaper drones. Sightseeing is another decent size use case, which often doesn't really involve hovering. And news/traffic reporting usually occupies a few helis in cities where they're primarily cruising around.