Helicopter noise

[Huge]

The AAIB do not accept "complaints" at all.

[damduck-egg]

There's a Sod who does that around here, I keep quoting from one of Spike Milligans books " I hope you Bloody well crash" but nothing has happened yet. perhaps I ought to rip the page out

and send it to the address the plane is registered at. I'm sure if I revved a loud motorcycle around outside the chaps house for hours he would complain but these Biggles types think it OK to inflict their noise over a wide area. For some reason the aviation hobby think planes and pilots are something special to be admired. Maybe in the days of Alan Cobham and his flying Circus but the novelty has long gone.

G.Harman

[tony sayer]

In article , damduck- [e-mail] scribeth thus

You'd think they'd have better silencers or at least silencers but it seems that would cost too much for type approvals;!>...

So I was told be a flying type..

[Nightjar]

On 22/04/2014 19:05, tony sayer wrote: ....

I wouldn't be surprised if that wouldn't set a manufacturer back a couple of million pounds, for something many users probably wouldn't want to fit anyway. If it is a warbird, which are quite popular for aerobatics, there might not even be a manufacturer still around to get it approved.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Lamb]

A minor benefit of living on the edge of an airport control zone is avoiding this sort of activity. Mind, you still get the plutocrats helicoptering over to pick up their private jets.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Very hard to silence rotors...90% if a helicopter sound is the rotors

[Tim Lamb]

Much quieter where the tail rotor is ducted.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not on a soddin chinook or apache..

Dogs can hear em at 5 miles, and then they fly over at 200ft..

Takene from where I am sitting now

[Nightjar]

Although the discussion had moved on to light aircraft doing aerobatics and, for those, most of the noise is engine noise.

Colin Bignell

[The Natural Philosopher]

Nope. Prop noise at least 50%

[amcmaho]

I don't know, but I know several people that would. Since it's you though, you can go and f*ck yourself Jim.

[Jethro_uk]

They really are being used as weapons of war. The one near use sometimes pulses a very powerful strobe at the ground. I believe the US used to do the same in Vietnam.

[Big Les Wade]

The Natural Philosopher posted

Yes we get those in deepest East Devon. A bloody nuisance, especially when they circle.

The light aircraft are a pain too. I hear one crashed near Colyton the other day, killing the sky-louse driving it. Good.

[The Natural Philosopher]

WEll having grown up on the approach path to the secret vickers airfield I got used to V bombers at 50 feet where I were a lad.

And heathrow stuff as well.

But what irked me the last time I visited there before my parent got terminally ill was te constant background noise from the....

...M25, now only 3 miles away.

[Nick Odell]

Brooklands? I lived near there when I were now't but a lad and visited a few times in the care of my next door neighbour who worked there. I once saw Barnes Wallis at work in his raised-up office: something taken over from the race-track days, I think, but was never allowed to approach the great man.

Nick

[damduck-egg]

At least most warbirds make a sound that has some character and look reasonably interesting where as the modern thing that pesters us sounds as pleasant as a chainsaw.

Get them just like that, mainly at night. Had a sound in the house a few weeks back that was really bugging me,turned out it was a light fitting being vibrated by Apaches. Could not hear the machines themselves and it was a night or two later when they came closer I noticed what was the cause . So that is now an early warning device. But like the Hunters and Buccaneers etc that used to suddenly wake the dead and make groggles shit themselves in the Low flying area I once lived in the presence is fairly short and exciting. Unlike the aerobatic enthusiast who resembles a mechanical bluebottle.

G.Harman

[Dave Liquorice]

I can hear the Chinooks inside at 5 miles ... Don't often get Apaches over here. Don't like them they just look so damn mean and nasty as they don't need to be streamlined.

That high? The Chinooks are quite often below us or at 50' and just a couple of hundred yards from the house. Half a dozen did that the other year boy did the windows rattle...

The reason the Chinooks and other helos are so low, to keep out of the way of the fast jets that come down the valley at just above our level. At least the jets are up and past in less than 30 seconds. There can be a good 45 degrees between where a jet is and where it sounds it is.