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In the prefecture Mrs.Kimori resides Fu-Ku means welcome .It is akin to pidgin here.
Go live in different prefectures in Osaka or Kobe or even Tokyo for a year or more as we have in the 1960s and then you will qualify to be more akamai in different dialects - instead of just being an arm chair cow girl GN.It has nothing to do with helicopters .
Or the constant noise from dawn to dusk from tourists.If we recall correctly you came here to "Hit" on tourist women to show them a great time while they are here on holiday.How is your hitting going GN at the high end resorts ?
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Some times 3 or 4 helicopters at a time - 2 going up and 2 going down - spaced every 30 to 180 seconds apart .
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Not possible based upon the number of helicopters on island and the length of time it takes one to go from Hilo to the volcano, and back, refuel, load up new passengers and repeat.
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We are in our 9th decade of life.
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Maybe time to stop arguing with strangers on the internet?
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She can argue all she wants in her 9th decade. She's earned it.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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On cruise ship days - as an example - Blue Hawaii will fly from Maui up to 8 helicopters to Hilo to accommodate the known bookings for that day and then do the same for Kona.
On days when Plane loads of Japanese tourists come over the same is true to ferry the air tourists to the eruption sites .
Then after the cruise ships head to Maui - the same is true .In our perspective Paradise Helicopter company now leases 3 of the same makings as Blue Hawaii except they are MUCH LOUDER and often mistaken for Blue Hawaiian choppers.
The leased helicopters are only insured 12 hours a day while in service and Blue Hawaiian insures 24/7.Blue Hawaiian is a Mormon church owned enterprise.
In the decades past in the mid 1980s I'o helicopters flew Huey 500s and often flew at tree top level in the pouring rain.
A tad bit of history and current events .
On pouring rain days no helicopters except for L.E. or D.E.A or coast guard are allowed to fly.
Many pilots here are all our neighbors and or are conflict vet pilots.
Granted some are sensitive to the noises around them but eventually you just get used to it.At least it is not 24/7 as in many parts of the U.S.A. or our earth.
Our ohana worked with congress - the F.A.A. - HVNP and other state and federal agencies along with the late Patsy Mink to get legislation passed on the federal level as to stand off distances over homes and livestock and in the National parks and reserves nation wide and U.S. territories .It took over 12 years and endless hours to enact these laws which to this day protect all from the cowboy chopper pilots who still think they are in Iraq or Nam.
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Story in T-H today, Feb. 10
Bills take on helicopter noise
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A slew of bills before the state legislature aim to address helicopter noise in Hawaii. Proposed legislation from Puna Sen. Russell Ruderman would require the state Department of Health... to study the impact of aviation noise...Senate Bill 436 would also require public meetings to be held...
Ruderman said there are about 80 round trip flights between Hilo and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park per day, which means a “few poor people right on that flight path get 160 helicopters a day flying (over).”
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...ter-noise/
