11-30-2010, 04:46 PM
Agreed about the higher flights, they aren't as loud when directly overhead, but you sure hear them farther away. You're listening to it either way.
Every time people talk about experiencing helicopter noise, HELCO comes up, it seems like they are always doing line checks somewhere on the island, they have miles and miles of line to check. Believe me, any of us who have experienced any combination of HELCO line checks, tour helicopters, green harvest, and emergency flights can tell the difference between them. They each have distinctive patterns of flight. But if you look at a map of Puna and draw lines from the Hilo airport to the lower lava flow field and ocean entry, and to Kilauea/Pu'u O'o, you can see exactly which rural areas experience overflights from tourist flights to look at the volcano activity. When taking people to look at an active ocean entry they take a coastal route, when going up the mountain, they take the mauka route. If you pay for the longer tour you go out one way, and back to Hilo the other way.
My husband found a PDF file someone posted online somewhere with pictures and diagrams of all the different helicopters being used here on the island. It explains whose helicopters are which, and which activities they are involved in. Those who feel their privacy and peace of mind are being violated might want to dig for it, it can help you figure out who is overhead.
Carol
Every time people talk about experiencing helicopter noise, HELCO comes up, it seems like they are always doing line checks somewhere on the island, they have miles and miles of line to check. Believe me, any of us who have experienced any combination of HELCO line checks, tour helicopters, green harvest, and emergency flights can tell the difference between them. They each have distinctive patterns of flight. But if you look at a map of Puna and draw lines from the Hilo airport to the lower lava flow field and ocean entry, and to Kilauea/Pu'u O'o, you can see exactly which rural areas experience overflights from tourist flights to look at the volcano activity. When taking people to look at an active ocean entry they take a coastal route, when going up the mountain, they take the mauka route. If you pay for the longer tour you go out one way, and back to Hilo the other way.
My husband found a PDF file someone posted online somewhere with pictures and diagrams of all the different helicopters being used here on the island. It explains whose helicopters are which, and which activities they are involved in. Those who feel their privacy and peace of mind are being violated might want to dig for it, it can help you figure out who is overhead.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb