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If I read your parent correctly, you need to compare standing on a basketball, not with flying a helicopter, but with precision hovering one.
by lovemenot 8y ago
If I read your parent correctly, you need to compare standing on a basketball, not with flying a helicopter, but with precision hovering one.
- dreamcompiler 8y agoFair enough. Hovering is definitely harder than forward motion, because among other things the tail boom acts as a weathervane during forward motion. But hovering is still easier than standing on a basketball. I've done the former, and I can't imagine even trying to do the latter.
- foxyv 8y agoAre you rated for the Basketball? How many hours have you logged on the basketball? /s
- tylerl 8y agoI got my "single basketball on grass" rating a couple of years ago, and have been meaning to schedule a checkride for my "single basketball on hardcourt" endorsement for a long time, but honestly I don't know when I'd ever use it.
- lisper 8y agoExactly. Flying a moving helicopter is not hard. A helicopter is much more stable while moving forward than while hovering. (And for the record, I am mainly a fixed wing pilot but I have also flown a helicopter.)