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Can a Gyrocopter hover like a helicopter?

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Can a Gyrocopter hover like a helicopter?

When it is in the air, the gyrocopter can hover, however it cannot increaase height during a hover like a helicopter therefore is not able to take off and land vertically. The gyrocopter requires a very short distance to take off, about the length of a football pitch; and an even shorter distance to land, about the length of a tennis court. (Although you would of course have to take the net down if you wanted to land safely!!!)