Helicopters can piss off

I don’t mind emergency service helicopters nearby, as I understand they are doing an important job. However, every year I get irritated the day after Glastonbury finishes, as private helicopters are busy ferrying people back to London. We seem to be on the flight path. It’s all you hear all day (ok, slight exaggeration!), especially when windows are open due to the heat.

sorry to break ranks but I live near a major trauma centre and regularly get helicopters flying over and see them landing and taking off. I really like watching them. I think you do get used to the noise. In fact just realised I can hear one now but hadn't even realised until saw this thread. Would White noise help to cancel it out a bit ?

Don’t mind helicopters, cant stand people that do that backfire shit with their cars and revving etc.

Where I live it's either Search & Rescue or the military. I think we want both, don't we, and certainly want them well trained.

The noise is annoying I agree especially when they are hovering over one spot your sat there thinking I need to go out soon but should I? Because they are obviously there for a reason what if someone dangerous is out there 🤔 🙃

I'm irrational about one of my neighbours dogs barking it's a whingy crunchy barking that goes on ALL DAY LONG it's not the dogs fault they are backyard breeders and they keep her penned in all year (yes its been reported loads no one cares) but it just goes on and on and ON all day most the night I know I'm being unreasonable to get irritated by it it's not her fault her life is so shite but the BARKING all day long it's like nails on chalkboard (if anyone knows the right phrases to say to the RSPCA to get them to actually DO something feel free to let me know so far penned in the garden all year and being bred all year means nothing to them)

Quad bikes and motorbikes. Even more so the ones my neighbours’ kids drive around behind my house while screaming their fucking heads off. Their thinking seems to have been along the lines of: hmmmm this is a nice field that people have always kept their horses on, let’s strong-arm the farmer into selling it so we can let it turn to shit then use it to fly round on quad bikes and chase them with motorbikes.

And don’t get me started on how angry hearing the sound of heavy machinery being revved over and over makes me. Same neighbours and last night it started at midnight. Cunts.

Dance music. Surprise surprise it’s the neighbours again. We moved to get away from dance music being pounded through our walls until between 3am and 5am (she’d turn it off just before I left for work at 5:20am) so I was already sensitive to the sheer hatred I have for that genre. Then the new neighbour decided we all need to listen to it at all times. Beautiful summers day? Much improved by dance music at a ridiculous level surely. Every weekend throughout the year - yeah chuck some dance music on full blast 🤬🤬🤬
At least the previous neighbour’s wank dance music had words in it.

While I’m typing this they’re screaming and shouting outside my window and wheel spinning on the gravel. Fuckers.
They moved here for the ‘country life’ 😂😂😂😂

We do get a lot of helicopters as we’re close to a couple of large cities, but they don’t particularly bother me.

Great contribution to the thread. She’s just having a chit chat ffs.

OP we live on the waterfront so we get helicopters often, for obvious reasons. Necessary, yes, but still an annoying noise. Sometimes it sounds like it’s inside the house.

I lived in an area where there were riots a few years ago and the helicopters were relentless. Day and night. I understand the majority are essential but good lord, they are horrifically noisy.

The force i used to work in had one helicopter (and it was a huge force by uk standards) and only two people in the whole force licensed to operate it.
They also cost a fortune. They don't send them out willly-nilly. Usually a high risk missing person or high risk BOLO.

The noise doesnt annoy me although I do understand it might bother some, but it isnt making that noise for sh1ts and giggles.

Helicopters during the day are often just a mode of private transport and that annoys me as the sound is so intrusive - I pass the heliport on one of my Thames Path walks and you can't hear yourself think if one is landing/taking off.

However during the night if I hear one clattering overhead no matter how long, absolutely does not bother me at all, as I know it's the police doing their job!

Are people worried the helicopters are going to take offence and stop doing their jobs or something?

The absolute irony in this post

As you will know it's mostly emergency services you could have got got out of bed and thought I won't be a dick.

Nevermind you can try again tomorrow

I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. People are still allowed to get annoyed by the noise and talk about it.

Bloody cuckoo for me. I live on a riverbank and the bastard can wake me up 5 am! I'd take that, over city noise, though.

Oh wind your neck in we’re all allowed an unreasonable rant from time to time.

They could be looking for a vulnerable person, like my dad with dementia who wandered off or my friend’s suicidal brother (who succeeded in his mission), both of whom had helicopters looking for them. It’s YOU who can piss off OP.

It's Santa, doing a mid-year reconnoitre 🎅

There were helicopters circling over the London Bridge area where I live for more than an hour from 4.30 this morning. I really wish there was a nosy parker’s website where we could find out what the hell is going on when things like this happen. It’s not knowing how long it’s going to go on or why it’s happening that makes it worse!

Pigeons and crows for me, lovely countryside sounds except they start at about 3am this time of year and there are hundreds of them cooing and cawing and flapping really dramatically. I am looking forward to being able to shut the window

You know you're being unreasonable, but you thought you'd post in AIBU anyway. OK then.