Talking about choppers, I had a grandstand view of a helicopter
medivac from my sixth-floor office window last week.
Apparently, there was some kind of medical emergency in the DNR
building next door. An ambulance and several emergency vehicles
were parked by the lobby entrance, but for whatever reason, they
decided to call in a helicopter.
The HealthEast chopper (a BO 105, from what I could see) made a low
pass then turned back and descended between the DNR building and
ours to land in the very narrow parking lot between the two
buildings. There were lampposts in the lot that the pilot had to
manoeuver around, and when he touched down, the closest one
couldn't have been more than 10 yards from the rotor disc. Quite a
feat of airmanship, indeed!
