Helicopter @ Pulpit

[wmelo]

This is the 2nd time I saw a helicopter flying close to us at Pulpit.
Thoughts?
Walt

[Dunegoon]

Suggested reading.

FAA advisory circular about wake turbulence (take special note of helicopter flight modes):
http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/medi ... 90-23G.pdf

FAA right of way for aircraft:
http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guida ... enDocument

Sectional chart showing airspace, navigational aids and airways around the Pulpit (look for McConnellsburg and ST THOMAS VORTAC)
https://flightaware.com/resources/airpo ... /sectional

Hope this helps.

CF

[andybalkphysics]

FAR 103 is the section applicable to ultralight vehicles, including hang gliders. 103 states that hang gliders only have right of way over powered ultralight vehicles…so that helicopter (being a part 91 aircraft) would have right of way over a hang glider. According to the FARs, hang gliders, and ultralights in general, are not aircraft.

https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-com ... ltralights

-Andy

[XCanytime]

It's been a while since I looked at the sectional map of the area but a military training highway VR708 oriented east/west crossed Tuscarora Mountain halfway between launch and Rt. 16. Back in the day in the mid to late 90's the Maryland Air National Guard would periodically the Friday before Memorial Day fly a pair of A-10's along that highway around 200' above the ridge. I saw them twice from the ground thank goodness. Bacil