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by squarefoot 1699 days ago
Does this rule also apply to helicopters and other VTOL aircrafts? The alternate airport in this case might be a field or parking lot 100 meters away.
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In good weather a helicopter is allowed to reduce it to 20 minutes.

In bad weather the alternate must be an airport with the facilities to conduct an instrument landing, so definitely not just a parking lot. And the forecasted weather at that airport needs to be good enough from 1 hour before until 1 hour after the expected arrival. "Good enough" is defined stricter for helicopters than for airplanes.