06-23-2018, 10:02 AM
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.
Mrs.Mimosa and Ohana
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.
Mrs.Mimosa and Ohana