this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
70 points (100.0% liked)

Environment

4016 readers
12 users here now

Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they're not breaking news).

See also our Nature and Gardening community for discussion centered around things like hiking, animals in their natural habitat, and gardening (urban or rural).


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

Helicopters can hover barely above the ground, landing is usually considered to touch down and power off the engine... but yeah, it's splitting hairs.

If they don't want helicopters, then they should apply the rules to the airspace. Maybe they'll change it now.