08-14-2013, 07:32 AM
I did talk to Lonni from the NEA (Sorry, my bad, the post above has DEA)
She is trying to follow up on the of the calls she got this morning....It sounds like she was not expecting to get swamped with calls first thing in the morning...She will try to get the supervisors to call back...but none of them were in the office this morning!
Doesn't matter to me if the use up the money or not... but even their complaint call taker thought that 5:40 AM was not right... and those guys were low flying...
any time deaf dog is awoken by a helicopter, it is not the noise but the vibration...and that does not happen with "normal" altitude flying (heck...that is so common here I don't even notice...it is the low stuff that shakes you that I have an issue with...
Based on all of the safety stuff...high altitude is safer...so that is how they should be flying... gives them a little more time to figure out "what to do" if a rare, but not unforseen, incident should happen...
This year alone our state has had 2 helicopter accidents that should not have happened, one was a mechanical repair error that went by both the mechanic & the inspector ...and the other.... well what excuse is there for a bonehead pilot flying with low fuel? Luckily for everyone, in both there were no major injuries (well, except for both birdies & one car) & the pilots had space to crash land....one with altitude, the other with a large vacant mowed field....
My hope is that they may always have that space, & do hope the pilots get smart, realize that in residential & wooded areas there are not large mowed fields & give themselves the altitude to plan...
BTW The US ave for helicopter accidents is over 7 times airplanes.... 7.5 - 9/100,000 hours of flying.....think of the number of hours they are working here...we have been very fortunate that there haven't been more in this state...
More hours up...will it increase the odds or not??? early morning low altitude flights...what does that do to the odds.... OK this is speculation.,.. but it still is very rude to awaken a community with low helicopter flyovers... something that the US did to un nerve some populatons...nt sure why here...
She is trying to follow up on the of the calls she got this morning....It sounds like she was not expecting to get swamped with calls first thing in the morning...She will try to get the supervisors to call back...but none of them were in the office this morning!
Doesn't matter to me if the use up the money or not... but even their complaint call taker thought that 5:40 AM was not right... and those guys were low flying...
any time deaf dog is awoken by a helicopter, it is not the noise but the vibration...and that does not happen with "normal" altitude flying (heck...that is so common here I don't even notice...it is the low stuff that shakes you that I have an issue with...
Based on all of the safety stuff...high altitude is safer...so that is how they should be flying... gives them a little more time to figure out "what to do" if a rare, but not unforseen, incident should happen...
This year alone our state has had 2 helicopter accidents that should not have happened, one was a mechanical repair error that went by both the mechanic & the inspector ...and the other.... well what excuse is there for a bonehead pilot flying with low fuel? Luckily for everyone, in both there were no major injuries (well, except for both birdies & one car) & the pilots had space to crash land....one with altitude, the other with a large vacant mowed field....
My hope is that they may always have that space, & do hope the pilots get smart, realize that in residential & wooded areas there are not large mowed fields & give themselves the altitude to plan...
BTW The US ave for helicopter accidents is over 7 times airplanes.... 7.5 - 9/100,000 hours of flying.....think of the number of hours they are working here...we have been very fortunate that there haven't been more in this state...
More hours up...will it increase the odds or not??? early morning low altitude flights...what does that do to the odds.... OK this is speculation.,.. but it still is very rude to awaken a community with low helicopter flyovers... something that the US did to un nerve some populatons...nt sure why here...