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#236539 - 11/30/11 01:10 AM Re: Emergency Communication [Re: bacpacjac]
Susan Offline
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What signal would you give to a helicopter pilot who was landing in a bad spot? Such as the top looks like grass, but it's really the top of a six-foot-deep swamp?

Arney: "Is that a distress signal? I thought a triangle usually indicates a landing zone for a helicopter?"

Three fires in a triangle is a distress signal. The triangle for "safe place to land" is usually anything BUT a fire: rocks, brush, depressions stomped in snow, etc.

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#236553 - 11/30/11 02:42 AM Re: Emergency Communication [Re: Susan]
AKSAR Offline
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Originally Posted By: Susan
What signal would you give to a helicopter pilot who was landing in a bad spot? Such as the top looks like grass, but it's really the top of a six-foot-deep swamp?


The helicopter "wave off" signal is to wave your arms back and forth above your head, first outstretched then crossing above your head, then then uncrossed and outstretched again. Repeat.

Note the possibility for confusion, as many people might do this instinctively when trying to attract attention. However, to a helicopter pilot this means "don't land!"
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#236558 - 11/30/11 02:53 AM Re: Emergency Communication [Re: AKSAR]
Susan Offline
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Thanks! I had seen that in movies, but movies are almost always wrong.

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