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Helipad or not, Heli or not....
It strikes me that people (what ever their motivations might be..., but apparently non pilot/owners) make the argument that heli's should use airports.
Isn't it problematic to concentrate everything on one specific area? Why should the people around that area accept that? Look what happens at and around many airports...
As far as environment is concerned, it is also more efficient to land close by, this avoids unnecessary secondary transportation, which is hardly environmentally friendly. This argument is fundamentally different for heli's as compared to airplanes.
I do however follow the economic reasoning that low use facilities are not "sustainable". But this should not be the case for NEC. I do also observe that in many such places political high brass tends to be the first to create LZ's if it is convenient for them...
m2c, d3
Isn't it problematic to concentrate everything on one specific area? Why should the people around that area accept that? Look what happens at and around many airports...
As far as environment is concerned, it is also more efficient to land close by, this avoids unnecessary secondary transportation, which is hardly environmentally friendly. This argument is fundamentally different for heli's as compared to airplanes.
I do however follow the economic reasoning that low use facilities are not "sustainable". But this should not be the case for NEC. I do also observe that in many such places political high brass tends to be the first to create LZ's if it is convenient for them...
m2c, d3
