Teacherjh wrote:

Next time, I might try it higher (ie. in the class B).

Yes, try it, but once you do, you'll be back downstairs where the view is
prettier.

A couple of hundred feet makes that much of a difference? One of those
helicopters past awfully close, and came right out of a blind spot. Given
that he climbed past me, and turned east, he must have been speaking to
ATC, as opposed to the corridor's CTAF.

- Andrew