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A helicopter doesn't need a solid surface to fly over, however when hovering, it takes a little less power to maintain a stationary hover over a surface than up in midair. That's because at normal hovering height (3 ft.) a column of air pressure (called ground effect) is built up underneath the rotor blades that assists the aircraft in maintaining it's altitude.

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