copperchopper exaplanation!!

[mrsflibble]

i know why we had that rash of it being overhead very low every few days...think this series on ch5 might have something to do with it, more so than my dodgy bugger of a neighbour lol!!

http://demand.five.tv/searchresults.aspx?search=police

hahahahaha!!!! (sereis 2 ep 1 features a very very local roundabout...)

[StripyPixieSocks]

We had two copperchoppers and a flipping plane buzzing around here all night... daren't tell my Mom she went mad when she heard we lived near-ish to Belmarsh lol

[citizentwiglet]

We've got one out every single day! I'm starting to wonder whether someone's painted a large 'H' on my roof....I'm starting to get a bit paranoid now, to be honest. We live in a bit of a strange area - 'rough' estate (where I live), combined with lots of millionaire pads, chopper flies around the whole town. For a while we thought it was a private chopper belonging to one of the sports-people who live here, but no...it comes courtesy of Strathclyde Police.

God knows how much it costs to keep them up in the air -but I think I'd prefer the money spent on a couple more bobbies-on-the-beat, to be honest.

[StripyPixieSocks]

It's odd really I half feel worried something big is going on and half feel re-assured that there's at least someone out there!

They're still at it almost 24 hours later...

OH did remark it might be just someone doing late night filming (happens alot in London for films and what not) but 2am in the morning is a bit late to be hurtling around waking everyone up and it was definitely 2 choppers!

I know the coppers would like more bobbies on the beat too but the Government and pen pushers seem to think the money is best spent on red tape and installing new reams of paperwork to keep the poor over-worked sods off the streets!

We live near two rough estates, Thamsmead and another one down the road I can't remember the name of (only been here two years lol) so Friday night the chopper is in permanent hold pattern above our little road waiting to catch drug dealers and the likes but this is different!

We drove past a shop a while ago with armed Police outside with BIG guns and lots of tape etc... I was shocked but everyone else just said "hmmm yeah happens alot in London" it's not even newsworthy anymore

[jampot]

we're on the army flight path near salisbury plain, so we get some huge chinooks overhead every day! some times they fly low (and very loud) on a sunday morning and scare the b'jesus out of me when im trying for a lie-in

[StripyPixieSocks]

we're on the army flight path near salisbury plain, so we get some huge chinooks overhead every day! some times they fly low (and very loud) on a sunday morning and scare the b'jesus out of me when im trying for a lie-in

We get them beggars too occasionally... bloomin' eck feels like the house is being shaken to the foundations lol

[Rod in Japan]

Do you ever complain about these helicopters to the organizations that are flying them?

[Witsinfr]

we're on the army flight path near salisbury plain, so we get some huge chinooks overhead every day! some times they fly low (and very loud) on a sunday morning and scare the b'jesus out of me when im trying for a lie-in

We get them beggars too occasionally... bloomin' eck feels like the house is being shaken to the foundations lol

Try being on the same part of a runway, loading my cargo plane, when one of these takes off.

That's when we use to holler "duck and cover", the crap that these things stir up from what looks like a clean concrete area is amazing.

My clients lost plenty of car windows to these bleeding things, but then again they would park in the wrong places, just wouldn't be told by a simple civilian...

[mrsflibble]

Do you ever complain about these helicopters to the organizations that are flying them?

yes and was very curtly told "we have a job to do you know". right, so hovering so low you are making the 50 year old trees otside sway is normal then? i dont think so...!

[StripyPixieSocks]

Do you ever complain about these helicopters to the organizations that are flying them?

Would you like to get on the wrong side of the Military and Police force? I don't think so

Seriously though, they're doing a job and a crappy one at that... I'm sat in my warm house enjoying the comfort and freedom they provide so no, I don't complain they have enough of that to begin with :)

Try being on the same part of a runway, loading my cargo plane, when one of these takes off.

That's when we use to holler "duck and cover", the crap that these things stir up from what looks like a clean concrete area is amazing.

My clients lost plenty of car windows to these bleeding things, but then again they would park in the wrong places, just wouldn't be told by a simple civilian...

Heehee, I used to work rather close to the runway at Manchester Airport several years ago... I'm surprised I'm not deaf lol... planes which made sonic booms when taking off used to make our entire office shake and we had a rather large breakage rate of mugs because of it... was all good fun though.

OH scared the bejeesus out of me not so long ago coming back from Central London by driving down the road that goes past the end of the airport... I nearly had a heart attack when a plane came in low to land (I didn't realise it was the end of the runway the road goes past)... for one godawful minute I thought it was a terrorist attack. Good job I have a good sense of humour!

[Green Aura]

We live about 5 miles(as the crow flies) from Cape Wrath and Garvie Island. According to the local paper it's the only place in Europe that allows live bombing - so we're regularly subjected to helicopters, fighter planes and bombs rattling the windows. This includes not only the British armed forces but also various EU forces and NATO exercises.

Have a look at this
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan-turnbull/secret3.htm
Scroll down to Cape Wrath/ Faraid head bit.

[Thomzo]

I always seem to buy houses that are on the flight path to somewhere (perhaps it's just the case that most houses are now on a flightpath ). This time it is the direct route between the airforce bases at Lyneham and Brise Norton. Plus I live slap bang between two large and fairly rough council estates so the police chopper is always overhead. I think the point about the police helicopter is that one can cover such a huge area and provide so much support to the coppers on the ground that they feel it is worth the money.

But I used to complain bitterly about being under the flight path of Concorde I really wish now that I had kept my mouth shut.

Zoe

[Annpan]

I always found it funny in Fort William, you always knew the locals, the ones that wouldn't bat an eyelid when a big fast black something or other would boom past (I don't know what they are, but they are military) Same goes in Edinburgh at the one o'clock gun... the tourists are all looking about with a 'what the....' expression on their faces.

Near filled my pants though when they did a fly past for the queen in the city centre of Glasgow, there are some things you should inform normal people about, especially less than a year after 9/11 - there were people in tears in the street, it was quite scary.

They do Nato exercises on the Clyde in-between Greenock and Helensburgh too, apparently recently an American ship told the Kilkreggan ferry to get out of the way or they would 'blow them out of the water'.......... and Americans wander why the rest of the world feel animosity for them.

Zoe, I don't think planes fly over that area, lovely hippy community too... of course it does hold all Britain's nuclear weapons... you win some you loose some

[StripyPixieSocks]

They do Nato exercises on the Clyde in-between Greenock and Helensburgh too, apparently recently an American ship told the Kilkreggan ferry to get out of the way or they would 'blow them out of the water'.......... and Americans wander why the rest of the world feel animosity for them.

I have a friend lives in Greenock and he once sent me a photograph of a submarine and said "guess what that is?"... I replied "uhm... submarine?" and he replied "no... it's a supposed secret American Submarine"... not so flaming secret then eh seeing as it was up and down all day in plain view

[JulieSherris]

I always found it funny in Fort William, you always knew the locals, the ones that wouldn't bat an eyelid when a big fast black something or other would boom past (I don't know what they are, but they are military) Same goes in Edinburgh at the one o'clock gun... the tourists are all looking about with a 'what the....' expression on their faces............

I SO know how that feels! When we were in Blackpool, we lived a 5 min drive from the airport, a 2 min walk from the Prom & on the main Ambulance/Fire Station/Police 'neenaw' route!
There was a constant stream of neenaws 24/7, plus jellyhoppers looking for lost kids, lost grannies, joyriders & general scrotes, the noise of the piers drifting over, pub music from 4 different pubs around us, plus the drunks singing/arguing at all hours......

Now we have the half dozen roosters along the lane, the little 'peeps' from the turkeys in the next field & the cows/sheep calling.... plus our dogs every now & again when they decide I've left them out too long!

I know what noises I prefer :lol:
Julie
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