On 22.11.2016 15:52, Alberto Nogaro wrote:
I had always thought that "a large H painted on it visible from the air" was enough to mark the spot as aeroway=helipad, even if the place is mainly conceived for emergency purposes.
As we just learned from the Korean mountains example, some light markings of a pre-planned emergency site does not constitute a helipad.
Also, if I paint a "H" on my roof, it means nothing initially and does not automatically constitute a helipad.
And that emergency=landing_site had to be used for places without any marking, just flat and suitable for landing (either by airplanes and helicopters).
No, please, if being flat were the only criterion, I would need to tag each and every soccer pitch and public lawn. Thus it need some preselection. When working for a volunteer mountain rescue team, we had a list of potential places where we could expect a chopper to land; those were carefully pre-checked on the ground for potential hazards.
Now it looks like a large visible and permanent H, as a "predefined" but not a "purpose-built infrastructure", should rather be marked as emergency=landing_site?
Maybe the "purpose-built" goes a bit to far and causes misunderstanding, but I would consider a helipad to have some regular use, e.g. to receive hospital patients, to serve a country's president or the CEO of a large company, etc.
And what about places which have nothing more than a visible and permanent H, but can also be used for purposes different from an emergency (for example, supply materials not transportable by other means)?
The H means helipad, not emergency. Thus of course a helipad can serve different purposes, ranging from emergencies over material transport, CEO traffic to touristic flights...
Furthermore, how do we specify if an emergency=landing_site is conceived for helicopters or airplanes as well?
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