Legal distance between street & helipad

[Darryl]

There's a facility locally where all employees enter the rear parking
lot via a private drive. The drive is located 25 yards from the
helipad, and it goes BY the helipad, but does not connect to it.

When a helicopter is landing, parked, or taking off, the drive is
closed off to thru traffic.

I was just wondering whether there are laws regarding how closer or
far active traffic must be from an in-use helipad, and if not, how
close a vehicle would have to be to a moving helicopter to either a)
be affected, or b) affect the helicopter.

[Al Denelsbeck]

(Darryl) wrote in
om:

> There's a facility locally where all employees enter the rear parking
> lot via a private drive. The drive is located 25 yards from the
> helipad, and it goes BY the helipad, but does not connect to it.
>
> When a helicopter is landing, parked, or taking off, the drive is
> closed off to thru traffic.
>
> I was just wondering whether there are laws regarding how closer or
> far active traffic must be from an in-use helipad, and if not, how
> close a vehicle would have to be to a moving helicopter to either a)
> be affected, or b) affect the helicopter.


http://www.aviationtoday.com/cgi/rw/show_mag.cgi?pub=rw&mon=1002&file
=1002heliports.htm is a link to an article concerning FAA treatment of
heliports. Within the article, they mention an FAA Advisory Circular,
"150/5390-2A".

You can download this direct from www.faa.gov/arp/pdf/5390-2a.pdf

That should get you started.

Short Google search. Google is your friend ;-)


- Al.

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The main concern is if you lose an engine on takeoff and having a
clear area to land until you have some altitude. Also depending on the
size of the helicopter, what debris it may toss due to its downwash.

Unless it is a big truck parked next to the helicopter, most vehicle's
will not affect a helicopter. Being in a vehicle, you may be rocked a
little due to the "wind".

On 28 May 2004 11:42:11 -0700, (Darryl) wrote:

>There's a facility locally where all employees enter the rear parking
>lot via a private drive. The drive is located 25 yards from the
>helipad, and it goes BY the helipad, but does not connect to it.
>
>When a helicopter is landing, parked, or taking off, the drive is
>closed off to thru traffic.
>
>I was just wondering whether there are laws regarding how closer or
>far active traffic must be from an in-use helipad, and if not, how
>close a vehicle would have to be to a moving helicopter to either a)
>be affected, or b) affect the helicopter.