12-01-2010, 04:19 AM
Great advice w/ the trip advisory! I'm on it. Lots of good thoughts coming up here. Dogs and coquis and roosters are definitely beside the point. The point is these helicopters, so many flying overhead all day long that it's more than a little ridiculous. Most of us didn't buy property near the airport for a reason. There seems to be this little piece of paper when looking at real estate that warns about helicopter fly overs, it was in some paperwork I saw from Oceanview, again in Ahualoa, again in Volcano... is there anywhere that isn't warned about this? Is this the helicopter users little insurance, "Well, you were warned..."? Why are the helicopters given sway over citizen's right to peace and quiet?
I think absolutely that all helicopters unless they are the mythic and seemingly profuse HELCO copters (which btw, would only need to fly overhead ONCE in about a year, right?? Monthly checks? Surely not needed in the same areas over and over?) or the popo copters. Of course they need to go where they must (sigh), but it should really be limited and a somewhat rare occurrence. Other helicopter pilots really ought to be made to fly certain, limited routes except in the case of emergency or bad weather. And how about a cap on how many times a copter can fly one route each day? How about since they're obviously making money on these tourists, they be asked to put some of it toward neighborhood impact funds of the neighborhoods at whose expense they cash in?
Fact is, they do fly lower than 500 feet here ALL THE TIME. I'm not kidding. If I can see whether or not the pilot or passenger has sunglasses on, that's under 500'. Fact is, most copters that fly over our subdivision DO NOT follow roads. Fact is that it is extremely intrusive noise and extremely intrusive of privacy, even above 500'. And frankly, I think most of these helicopters must be tour copters, because why on earth would any other agency be flying overhead, back and forth, every day? Helco? They would need to get some better line checkers I'd think, or raise our rates! DEA? Pot plants don't spring up overnight. Even they wouldn't waste that kind of money to check and recheck every day.
Carol is right, if you've lived w/ it long enough, you know the different patterns. I know a DEA copter. I know an emergency copter. And I know a lookey-loo copter.
I think absolutely that all helicopters unless they are the mythic and seemingly profuse HELCO copters (which btw, would only need to fly overhead ONCE in about a year, right?? Monthly checks? Surely not needed in the same areas over and over?) or the popo copters. Of course they need to go where they must (sigh), but it should really be limited and a somewhat rare occurrence. Other helicopter pilots really ought to be made to fly certain, limited routes except in the case of emergency or bad weather. And how about a cap on how many times a copter can fly one route each day? How about since they're obviously making money on these tourists, they be asked to put some of it toward neighborhood impact funds of the neighborhoods at whose expense they cash in?
Fact is, they do fly lower than 500 feet here ALL THE TIME. I'm not kidding. If I can see whether or not the pilot or passenger has sunglasses on, that's under 500'. Fact is, most copters that fly over our subdivision DO NOT follow roads. Fact is that it is extremely intrusive noise and extremely intrusive of privacy, even above 500'. And frankly, I think most of these helicopters must be tour copters, because why on earth would any other agency be flying overhead, back and forth, every day? Helco? They would need to get some better line checkers I'd think, or raise our rates! DEA? Pot plants don't spring up overnight. Even they wouldn't waste that kind of money to check and recheck every day.
Carol is right, if you've lived w/ it long enough, you know the different patterns. I know a DEA copter. I know an emergency copter. And I know a lookey-loo copter.
Melissa Fletcher
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973