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I also fly Skyhawks - it seems to me, as a helicopter outsider, that they think in hundreds of feet where we fixed wing pilots think in thousands of feet. It wo
by rogerrogerr 2y ago
I also fly Skyhawks - it seems to me, as a helicopter outsider, that they think in hundreds of feet where we fixed wing pilots think in thousands of feet. It would be interesting to hear from a RW instructor, especially one from the army, whether a 100ft altitude deviation is more akin to a student deviation 100ft or 1000ft in the fixed wing context.
- wkat4242 2y agoTrue, I was reading up on that accident between news helicopters and it surprised me they regularly kept separation of only 100ft.
- wkat4242 2y agoOh it was 200 actually: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/chasing-a-story-the-2007-phoenix-news-helicopter-collision-160a59759562 https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/chasing-a-story-the-2007... Still, very little for a fixed wing GA pilot. I know airliners use pretty low separation pretty much as a rule but they have really accurate autopilots.