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To me this is just not thought out. If they land on the same runway then they aren't avoiding the flow of fixed-wing aircraft, are they? So to pretend like this is fixing anything is ignoring reality. If they are landing on a taxiway (helicopter) or grassy area (parachute), then I agree, but if they are using the same runway as fixed-wing aircraft, they should freaking fly the same flow!
One airport I go to occasionally has trikes and gyros and they all fly at different heights close patterns, and it just makes things worse. It does NOT improve safety at all.
This weekend we had a helicopter practicing on our runway, doing right pattern and hovering on the end of the runway for ages. Very irritating, but the right pattern just made it harder to figure out what was going on, it did NOT improve safety in any way.
/rant
To me this is just not thought out. If they land on the same runway then they aren't avoiding the flow of fixed-wing aircraft, are they? So to pretend like this is fixing anything is ignoring reality. If they are landing on a taxiway (helicopter) or grassy area (parachute), then I agree, but if they are using the same runway as fixed-wing aircraft, they should freaking fly the same flow!
One airport I go to occasionally has trikes and gyros and they all fly at different heights close patterns, and it just makes things worse. It does NOT improve safety at all.
This weekend we had a helicopter practicing on our runway, doing right pattern and hovering on the end of the runway for ages. Very irritating, but the right pattern just made it harder to figure out what was going on, it did NOT improve safety in any way.
/rant