Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes

It's 4971 feet from what looks like the PAPI to the far shore. It's a 3.10 VDA to TCH at 40 on the RNAV GPS 33. That puts an aircraft at 269' using trig at the far shore. The visual glide slope indicator would be even lower. While they were doing a visual and not technically the approach procedure, it's recommended aircraft follow the procedures even in visual conditions, so one would expect as much as possible the aircraft be stabilized like it was on the approach. As further information, waypoint IDTEK over the ground and well before the river is only 490 feet. Flying helos at 200' over the river seems pretty much right in the approach path, not even clearing by 100'.