Comment by ETH_start
1 day ago
>A car that is dropped that ejects a significant fraction of its mass in any direction is going to alter its trajectory but that won't change much: it's going to come down, and sooner rather than later, it isn't 'hovering' it is just very temporarily staving off the inevitable.
That meets the definition of hovering.
Will you stand under it while it is 'hovering'?
You're not supposed to be within 3 rotor-lengths of a helicopter when it's hovering, does that mean it's not hovering either?
People are under helicopters all the time. SAR for instance. So whether you are supposed or not doesn't matter, for some people that's their day job and they are not overly worried that it is going to fall on them because they know it can hover.