Small Market Station Gets News Chopper

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In big markets it's not uncommon for stations to have news helicopters that have 3, 4, 5 or even more cameras on board.​

But, when you're in a small market, you have to do it more economically, which is the fancy word for cheap.​

WTXL in Tallahassee, Florida has teamed up with a helicopter school to get the market's first ever news chopper.

Don't look for 5 on board cameras in this baby. 

"Within five minutes we can come here from the airport, take on a camera man, we go to the site and be able to provide aerial photography of the news to our community here in Tallahassee which I think will very much be appreciated," says Dr. Thomas Diefenbach of Tallahassee Helicopters.

WTXL points excitedly on the station's website that their 2005 Robinson R44, Raven 2 helicopter has a glass cockpit and is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment possessed by only three helicopter schools in the nation, and we have one.​

A glass cockpit?!

Take that SKYFORCE 10 in Philly. ​

​The station doesn't save what the "state-of-the-art equipment possessed by only three helicopter schools in the nation."

An engine maybe?

​More on Eggbeater 27  (not sure that's the name they are going with, you can go to the station's website.