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28-04-2009, 08:09 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dorset
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| | | Low flying helicopters.
Not sure if this is in the right place on the forum,but anyway here goes..
Does anyone know how you go about complaining about low flying helicopters.
I put up with it for 2 years at our last property which was just off the A35 near Shipton Hill(they even landed on there one day!)we were in the lane running round there and it was constant ,nearly every day,green coloured ones all different shapes including the chinooks which used to shake the house!Even at 1 in the morning!
We are now in a different area near Bridport & we live on the side of a hill which seems to be a beacon for them to fly round,yesterday a chinook flew just above the tree line(glad it missed the pylon 2 fields away!!!)and banked around the hill,the sheep there were running in all different direction!!Scared me & shook the place!!3 weeks ago one landed 2 fields away where in the next fields were horses,cattle & sheep.Surely this should not be allowed?
I counted 8 low flyers yesterday including the chinook.I cannot see any markings on them...they are low enough over our garden to see...I know the police ones..that is a different case I think..they have to fly low..but this cannot be a training ground so near a busy town can it??!!??We are not on the coast side so it's not rescue ones either.I wondered if the woman who's horse kicked her in the head after being frightened by one near Seaton will get anywhere trying to stop all this.I thought that places like Salisbury Plain were the designated areas for practise?Any sensible advise would be welcome.
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28-04-2009, 08:42 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dorset
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
I suspect that they may come from RNAS Yeovilton as we get the same situation here. We are about 5 miles as the helicopter flies from Yeovilton and there are some weeks when we seem to be bombarded with them and then others when it is all quiet. It was a lot worse when the Harriers were there!!!
We had friends who lived about half a mile from the end of the runway and their parish council was provided with lists of when their village would be affected. However, that was when the Harriers were still there and they (and the Harriers) are no longer there so I don't know if that still happens.
The only suggestion that I can make is that you keep a note of what and when over the next few weeks and check out contact details from the Yeovilton website. I would not be overly optomistic about getting any changes though.
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28-04-2009, 10:25 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Felixstowe
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
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Originally Posted by RAINBOWRUSSELL  Not sure if this is in the right place on the forum,but anyway here goes..
Does anyone know how you go about complaining about low flying helicopters. | Oh tell me about it! We get them all here; Sea Kings, Apaches, civilian, police, not to mention B52s, Jet Provosts, WW2 Mustangs and microlights - the skies are never empty  . A recent survey on the Stour estuary revealed that 60% of disturbance to wintering birds was by helicopters  .
Don't know what you can do about it, but best of luck trying 
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28-04-2009, 10:57 AM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dorset
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
We did wonder about Yeovilton,now & again there are jet types going over too!I nearly drove off the road once on the A35 when 2 came from behind straight over the top of my van & scared the...so & so outta me!!They were way too low over a main road like that!
Just had another one go over & round the hill so it must be the 'week'for them!
Are there not rules about how high(or low) they fly over livestock etc???I know one hit power cables not long ago..think in Somerset or Devon,so they must sometimes get it wrong!If they get caught in our Pylon here they will end up on top of Bridport!And are they allowed to just land in a field wherever they want?
Will see what I can find out!But as you say..don't hold out much hope!
So much for saving the planet and conserving fuel..but then I understand that they have to train...thought the simulators were good for that??!!??
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28-04-2009, 11:04 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
The situation in the Lakes is not as bad as yours down south but we do get some impressive jet displays. They always seem to appear on the finest of days. We also get the Hercules, they often appear, like buses, in three's.
They're the quiet giants and quite a site to see them flying at 200' up the length of Windermere when you're above them on the hill.
Our local paper publishes a low flying hotline number that I know is regularly used. A caller with a complaint will receive a nice letter and an RAF booklet with all the planes and weaponry listed and explained. |
28-04-2009, 11:45 AM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northants.
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
We get them all flying over here one was so low I waved at the pilot..
Another time one came over the brow of the hill they saw me walking the dog and suddenly gained hight I thought I was a gonner..
This was on a bridleway only happy I was not on a horse at that time.
I was in my friends pony and trap when a helicopter came low over head it was nerve racking..
We get hercules flying low over the house. |
28-04-2009, 12:05 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dorset
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
It's nice to know I'm not alone in this!!the Chinooks are the worst noise level and they really do shake the whole building they really are only just clearing the trees & hilltop here!!I suppose because they are gone so quickly you can't get them for noise annoyance or something!
Was talking to someone at the Dorset Wildlife trust nr Dorchester one day & a pair of jets followed by a helicopter went right over head and she said that someone near there had come off their horse a few months before when startled !
Is it going to take a few deaths before action is taken then?the lady near seaton was lucky to be alive I think!Not counting the amout of livestock that has maybe suffered ! 
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28-04-2009, 01:01 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near Peterborough
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
I live near to Brize Norton so there is quite a bit of air traffic, though I find it reassuring, I'm glad to see them and glad to see them practicing or going about their work because we need them to be skilled at what is a difficult job and if that means that I have to experiance them doing this that's fine by me. I'm just glad they're on our side! |
28-04-2009, 01:02 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: East Harling, Norfolk
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton I live near to Brize Norton so there is quite a bit of air traffic, though I find it reassuring, I'm glad to see them and glad to see them practicing or going about their work because we need them to be skilled at what is a difficult job and if that means that I have to experiance them doing this that's fine by me. I'm just glad they're on our side! | I agree  |
28-04-2009, 01:22 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Felixstowe
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| | | Re: Low flying helicopters.
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton I live near to Brize Norton so there is quite a bit of air traffic, though I find it reassuring, I'm glad to see them and glad to see them practicing or going about their work because we need them to be skilled at what is a difficult job and if that means that I have to experiance them doing this that's fine by me. I'm just glad they're on our side! |
Hmm. Not that I'm disagreeing with you Gill, but just to add a different perspective...
Back in the '80s, I worked on a dig at St Ninians Priory, Whithorn, Galloway. An otherwise idyllic location, it was constantly subjected to the roar of F111s as they used the Priory to line up for a run down to the bombing range at Luce Bay, near Stranraer. A few weeks later, they bombed Libya! . A lot of good that did us  .
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