08-19-2009, 06:59 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
I respect the talent it takes to land there, but I think that it was foolish of the pilot to even attempt it. Helicopters can react really strangely when hovering over unusual terrain. It can create down drafts or weird gusts that will suck the chopper down into the ground or fling it into the hillside. He/she risked the chopper, the crew, the rescuers on the ground, and the injured victim.
Unless you're a chopper pilot yourself, I'd say you are unqualified to judge that. I've spent a fair amount of time in a helicopter in desert terrain and the pilot was quite able to land with little fuss in all sorts of situations I, as a layman, wouldn't have thought would be that easy.