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Helicopters can piss off

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Nursingadvice · 01/07/2025 07:05

I know I’m being unreasonable as they obviously have an important job to do. But why must helicopters circle repeatedly for what feel like hours. Currently 7am and it’s been at least an hour. The sound enrages me. Not bothered by traffic, motorbikes, sirens. But helicopters 😡
Also loud people, particularly drunk ones late at night, but that’s a thread for another day.

What sounds annoy other people? I need a distraction before I start shouting up at the sky like a crazy woman.

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Needanadultgapyear · 01/07/2025 07:38

We live near an RAF helicopter training facility and we are in an area they use for training. The appaches are a bit annoying with their whoop whoop noise, but low level night flying when it sounds and feels like they are going to land in my bed room is awful.

BeamMeUpCountMeIn · 01/07/2025 07:38

Literally nothing like that annoys me. Even drunk people amuse me if they wander past. We get the air ambulance and chinooks over quite often.

If it's not my kids (or other kids / people / pets in distress) then it washes over me. Years of being a hyper alert lone parent with a non-sleeper (until 9) has numbed my nerves.

HurdyGurdy19 · 01/07/2025 07:35

FasterthanBolt · 01/07/2025 07:06

Where I live the helicopters are either the air ambulance or the coastguard and the local FB group is full of people moaning about the noise 🙄

Ah yes, the Facebook posters. Especially those who helpfully post a photograph of a helicopter in the sky, in case no one knows what a helicopter looks like.

And those who ask why the helicopter is up - as though Facebook will have insider information

We used to live near Silverstone and the sky on F1 weekends was just clogged with helicopters. That got old pretty quickly 😅

partyboat356 · 01/07/2025 07:34

Non-stop advertising/adverts, commercials, being sold to etc? I think it's actually abusive as we've all been subject to it from babies and it continues non-stop throughout your life if you live in the modern world and don't live as a hermit in the cave. They're not just selling to us, and training us to want certain things, basically programming us into being certain types of people, the people you see on the advert. It's all so fake and it didn't have to be this way.

minnienono · 01/07/2025 07:34

We have lots as there’s a helicopter refuelling point for military, plus the normal police, air ambulance and coastguard then the national grid ones. I don’t notice them

Dangermoo · 01/07/2025 07:33

Nursingadvice · 01/07/2025 07:11

That would be my guess. It’s a fairly regular occurrence, maybe it wouldn’t bother me so much if it wasn’t. It’s just such an irritating sound.

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Where do you live, where a police helicopter is a regular sound!

UNiFiLoPastry · 01/07/2025 07:31

The only one I’ll let you off on, OP, is if it’s the Sky News helicopter.

UNiFiLoPastry · 01/07/2025 07:30

We have a whole range here:

Military flights;
Diplomatic / ceremonial flights (including Trump on Marine One, which we saw from our back garden!);
Coastguard;
Air Ambulance;
Police;
Sightseeing flights;
Training flights for all of the above.

We also get the bonus of historic fly pasts (eg Spitfires, B52) and/or the Red Arrows most years.

We’re just used to it I suppose. I find barking dogs more annoying.

MushMonster · 01/07/2025 07:16

It is annoying indeed.
If they are circling around, then you know it is the police looking for someone.
Better the annoying noise than stepping out of the house to be mugged at knife point.

RedRosie · 01/07/2025 07:12

I live near a heliport, so that can't be helped and you do sort of get used to it. For you it's probably police searching for someone, a criminal, lost child etc. Can't be helped either.

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Nursingadvice · 01/07/2025 07:11

sandgrown · 01/07/2025 07:09

Is it the Police helicopter looking for someone?

That would be my guess. It’s a fairly regular occurrence, maybe it wouldn’t bother me so much if it wasn’t. It’s just such an irritating sound.

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Gettingbysomehow · 01/07/2025 07:10

I work right next to the helicopter place in Yeovil. The row all day is horrendous. You just can't get away from it.

sandgrown · 01/07/2025 07:09

Is it the Police helicopter looking for someone?

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Nursingadvice · 01/07/2025 07:08

I actually imagine it’s more likely to be police as surely an ambulance wouldn’t circle for an hour.

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Nursingadvice · 01/07/2025 07:08

I know I’m unreasonable, I also imagine it’s either police or ambulance but no, it doesn’t make it any less annoying.

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JacquesHarlow · 01/07/2025 07:07

What reasons do you think a helicopter circles for like that, @Nursingadvice ?

If you visualise the reasons why it would be up there, could it perhaps help you to forgive the sound?

FasterthanBolt · 01/07/2025 07:06

Where I live the helicopters are either the air ambulance or the coastguard and the local FB group is full of people moaning about the noise 🙄