The Helicopter Crash

[MIflyer]

This newspaper has a good account of the circumstances associated with the helicopter crash that all the news has been covering.
I have flown Special VFR in the LA basin exactly ONCE, and it certainly was not under conditions remotely similar to what is described. We took off from Torrance in Cessna 172 with the usual California coastal "horizontal overcast" of about 500 ft thick. Typically SFR is used to get away from the airport a short distance to a VFR area.

Helicopter that crashed killing Kobe and 8 others circled for 15 minutes over Burbank | Daily Mail Online

 

[FLYBOYJ]

This newspaper has a good account of the circumstances associated with the helicopter crash that all the news has been covering.
I have flown Special VFR in the LA basin exactly ONCE, and it certainly was not under conditions remotely similar to what is described. We took off from Torrance in Cessna 172 with the usual California coastal "horizontal overcast" of about 500 ft thick. Typically SFR is used to get away from the airport a short distance to a VFR area.

Helicopter that crashed killing Kobe and 8 others circled for 15 minutes over Burbank | Daily Mail Online

I'm going to merge this one.