Those of you who have stood under a low flying helicopter will agree that helicopters accentuate the day’s weather and add several miles an hour to the local breeze. If it is cold and rainy outside, underneath a helicopter there will be driving rain and an unpleasant wind chill factor (conjecture as I have not personally experience the concept of cold in Iraq). If it is hot and dry, low flying helicopters will make it hot, dry, and dusty. This “helicopter effect” is magnified by multiple helicopters flying in formation.
Helicopter pilots, being pilots and having a high probability of being cocky, probably believe that a) they create the weather system in a global sense (“Hey, it’s windy wherever I go, ergo it is windy everywhere, ergo I create the weather…”), and b) think that they command the world to move up or down, backwards or forward, and side to side, by their sheer coolness and knowledge of the mystical powers of their control stick. I will allow them to keep the second misconception as there are several pilots I care about, and I would hate to be the one that crashed their conception of physics. But not the first. The weather effects are local. LOCAL!
They would never use a word as geeky as ergo in normal speech, either.
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