!!!Rio de Janeiro 2

by members of the [AirPano Team|Geography/About/Consortium/AirPano,_Team] that is a member of the [global-geography Consortium|Geography/About/Consortium]. \\

February 2008

with kind permission of [AirPano|http://www.AirPano.com]

It's very convenient to fly over Rio by helicopter.

Unlike most of other big cities of the world, where there are many
restrictions and often special flight permissions are needed, in Rio de
Janeiro you can fly almost everywhere and at any flight-level, surely,
satisfying safety requirements and common sense. The crucial thing is
don't make obstacles for the Boeings flying up from the neighboring
airport. Also, it's sometimes forbidden to come closely and make photos
of naval ships standing at the port.

The pilot was very cheerful; he put the music in my head-set, told me
anecdotes, spun and revolved and, in general, executed all my
photo-wishes.

However, several times during the hour, when I asked the helicopter to
hover in the air and shot the panoramas, the pilot worried and said hard
that it wasn't possible to stay long there and we had to fly away very
soon.

After we had landed I asked the pilot why he hadn't allowed me to make
photos in some places and had flown away, although in other places the
helicopter could hover in the air for 5 or 10 minutes.

The pilot answered that he doesn't like the helicopter to hover in the
air over favellas (favellas are poor districts of the city) because it's
more easier to hit unmoved target with an automatic weapon than the
moving one, and he wouldn't like to come back to the base with the hole
in the cabin, especially, after one police helicopter has recently been
hit in the air.

That is the life in Rio de Janeiro...

And you can see the panoramas which I shot there.

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[13 Panoramas of Rio de Janeiro 2|Geography/America/Brazil/Pictures/Panoramas_of_Rio_de_Janeiro_2]











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