If I fly straight up in a helicopter and hover there, why doesn’t the earth continue to spin underneath me?

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Why doesn’t it spin independently of me and I end up in another country or something? And if a spaceship watched earth from afar, at one point would it start spinning with earth and at what point can it observe the rotations of earth without being part of it?

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If you are hovering, that means you’re maintaining a position in the air relative to a fixed position on the earth. If the earth is moving beneath you, you are not hovering.

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