Recent content by Rogueair

Coming from a family of pilots many of whom are heli pilots, myself I'm fixed wing, I can tell you with pretty good authority that any thing striking a rotary wing in flight can cause immense damage even a crash. Your right, that drone would not fly upward into the rotor wash. The most likely...

Case in point, a clipboard, (lighter than a drone) caused this crash Fatal Idaho Fish and Game helicopter crash caused by biologist's clipboard

Are you kidding me? A 3 lb drone hitting the rotors of a helicopter would be catastrophic