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[โ€“] sockpuppet5@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And so will the hover (unless anti-gravity).

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

You can spread out the pressure to a much greater degree with a hover device.

A helicopter still has to exert enough force to lift say 900kg of mass. But, the surface area covered by a helicopter's rotors is pretty huge compared to the contact patch of even a big, soft tire. OTOH, there's going to be a lot of turbulence in the air pushed down by a rotor / hover device, which might damage some plants more than simply being squashed by a soft tire.