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by Dylan16807 56 days ago
About 7000 on average, but let's say 10000 since demand varies. And let's consider doing 10% of them with helicopters. If we average 3 people per helicopter, that's 170 groups in and 170 groups out. If each landing needs 5 minutes of pad time, that's 14 pads. Make it 20 to handle variation.

Wow, that makes it sound significantly more feasible than I would have guessed.

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Where do you put those 20 pads in the city?
I'm not sure but there's a whole lot of city available. That half of the problem is easy on a technical level.