03-21-2013, 02:12 AM
First of all you have to understand that this is the biggest thrill ride in Hawaii. My wife and I did the volcano tour with Blue Hawaiian 16 years ago and it is an amazing experience seeing the eruption from the air. It's a bucket list thrill for many people.
With that said, living under the flight path is quite a different experience. Sometimes they fly so low it literally shakes our house and we are directly under their flight path. There are so many aircraft I worry about any of them having mechanical trouble and hard landing or worse.
What bothers me even more than the noise though, and nobody ever brings this up, is the complete invasion of privacy by aerial filming and photography. We still have our video we received of our flight when we went 16 years ago. Hawaiian has four video cameras on each aircraft that film each flight to sell to the passengers. The tourists flying of course all have their cameras clicking away right over our heads.
This amounts to scores of people per day invading your privacy filming your property and everything going on. Wife can't lay out naked by the pool, I can't bend over gardening while only wearing a thong (just kidding). This means no privacy on our own property when filmed from above in our own airspace. This might even be illegal and the angle to take for a class action law suit by all of us affected by these helicopters.
Blue Hawaiian advertises that they are "ultra quiet". Let's see them be quiet by taking the coastal route. That would be more scenic too than looking into our back yards (and thongs) and disturbing our peace! They wouldn't be allowed to fly over Steven Tyler's part time home on Maui according to the new bill signed.
There needs to be a compromise because these flights are good for our economy and tourism. The helicopter companies should respect their neighbors that live under their current flight path, it shouldn't take a lawsuit, or will it?
Aloha
With that said, living under the flight path is quite a different experience. Sometimes they fly so low it literally shakes our house and we are directly under their flight path. There are so many aircraft I worry about any of them having mechanical trouble and hard landing or worse.
What bothers me even more than the noise though, and nobody ever brings this up, is the complete invasion of privacy by aerial filming and photography. We still have our video we received of our flight when we went 16 years ago. Hawaiian has four video cameras on each aircraft that film each flight to sell to the passengers. The tourists flying of course all have their cameras clicking away right over our heads.
This amounts to scores of people per day invading your privacy filming your property and everything going on. Wife can't lay out naked by the pool, I can't bend over gardening while only wearing a thong (just kidding). This means no privacy on our own property when filmed from above in our own airspace. This might even be illegal and the angle to take for a class action law suit by all of us affected by these helicopters.
Blue Hawaiian advertises that they are "ultra quiet". Let's see them be quiet by taking the coastal route. That would be more scenic too than looking into our back yards (and thongs) and disturbing our peace! They wouldn't be allowed to fly over Steven Tyler's part time home on Maui according to the new bill signed.
There needs to be a compromise because these flights are good for our economy and tourism. The helicopter companies should respect their neighbors that live under their current flight path, it shouldn't take a lawsuit, or will it?
Aloha