Why is piloting a helicopter considered more challenging, despite not requiring much space to take off and land and being able to stabilize in the air and stand still?
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An airplane wants to fly, and, barring catastrophic structural failure, will fly stably on its own in the absence of a pilot. A helicopter wants to kill you.
Less, glibly, a helicopter is like a spinning top which the pilot is coaxing to go a specific direction without unbalancing said top and causing it to spin out. That’s much harder than flying a plane.
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