shakran wrote:
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The pilot almost never shoots video, but he's often expected to
function as a reporter. It sounds like in at least one of the crashed choppers, the pilot was live on the air talking to the anchors -- IMO this should never happen - the pilot should be concentrating on flying the bird. Unfortunately many news helicopters can only carry two people because they're already so heavy with all the equipment they have. I know of one chopper in Iowa that had only enough capacity for the pilot (who acted as the reporter) and a VERY lightweight photographer - -they used to have to send the smallest intern they had for that to meet the weight restrictions.
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In most markets outside of NY LA and Chicago, it is a two man operation, the Pilot/Reporter and the Videographer.
In The Big three markets, The pilot flies the thing and there is a separate reporter and the videographer....
It would not surprise me to find that due to this catastrophy, the Big City setup will filter to smaller markets, and that some stations may get out of the chopper business alltogether due to the added costs.