This abandoned hospital has sat empty since 2008, so you can see how rundown it looks now. Some people go in it, but I think I'm good with the aerial shots haha
It is in Richmond Indiana.
Cool, but it appears that the old Reid Hospital had a helispot - still registered with the FAA. Did you notify them before your flight?
Thank you! I wanted to get more shots like that and lower closer to ground floor but I was flying from behind the woods that surround it hahaNice...like the shot coming up with the broken windows.
Well crap...no I didn't
...they're tearing it down in the coming weeks though haha
*edit* yes, of course I did.
Well that's good info to know...I looked it up and I saw it was reported as permanently closed, so I was thinking I was good since obviously nothing was going to land there. Who would normally have to report that to FAA?And the FAA will still show the area for 5 miles around it as an Alert in B4UFly because there isn't a contact who will notify them that the helispot is GONE!
That's a good question. Maybe someone else on the forum can give us an answer. I assume that the owner/operator or designated contact would need to report it.Well that's good info to know...I looked it up and I saw it was reported as permanently closed, so I was thinking I was good since obviously nothing was going to land there. Who would normally have to report that to FAA?
Check out the story: Abandoned: Old Reid Memorial HospitalVery cool and somewhat spooky video.
Could be a great location for a psycho killer monster zombie movie.
Seems like a horrible waste of what appears to be a fairly modern design facility to just let it decay like that when we can use use more hospitals all the time.
I agree! It is a pretty cool looking place, but I'm not sure the back story of why it sits empty fort his long...they did build a brand new hospital a few miles away and it's even bigger, but I was reading that the city needs an 8 million dollar loan to tear it down and once they get approval, it'll be demolished here by the end of summer...so they say.Very cool and somewhat spooky video.
Could be a great location for a psycho killer monster zombie movie.
Seems like a horrible waste of what appears to be a fairly modern design facility to just let it decay like that when we can use use more hospitals all the time.
Well see that's a good point...I was going off of the DJI app and it wasn't telling me anything about what type of zone I was in, but where I live out in the country, I get alerts of unpaved airports all of the time, so I wasn't sure what was going on.That's a good question. Maybe someone else on the forum can give us an answer. I assume that the owner/operator or designated contact would need to report it.
I wouldn't worry about flying there. After all, who are you gonna contact? The place is closed.
I was just using your case to get a dig in about the FAA and all the outdated info in their airport database. Like several others have noted, there are lots defunct strips listed in B4UFly. I live out in the country and am surrounded by "grass" landing strips that show up as Alerts in the app but that haven't been used in years or now have a house right in the middle of them.
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