To ask you if helicopters are watching you??

[Sassenach85]

Has anyone noticed helicopters in their area? We have them now day and night - some so low it scared the pets and kids. Some black some yellow some grey. Is this just my area? We all feel unnerved by it a bit

All Air Ambulances in the UK have been grounded for the time being and use critical care cars placed in various areas around a county

That would be the cars that go across water from the islands then ?

Scotland’s air ambulances are not grounded

www.scottishambulance.com/WhatWeDo/aircraft.aspx

www.scaa.org.uk/

Our air ambulance has not! One landed twenty five metres from my home on Saturday after a very nasty road accident.
We're a vivid hotspot, so perhaps they needed to transport a critically injured person further away for treatment? (We're just two miles from an enormous new hospital with plenty of surgery theatres)

I’m central Scotland and have noticed this. No idea what they’re doing though.

I used to work in the MOD, and remember being told by a trainer that Scotland was a good place to learn and practise low level flying. And they'll also need to learn low level flying at night, so I'd bet some of your night increase is due to that among all the other reasons.

Slightly off topic, but where have all the aircraft gone? The skies are empty so where do the planes live when they’re not in the air?

Im in Herts by the M25 and havent noticed any more, if anything less because presumable less traffic problems.

I normally work near Buckingham palace and there are helicopters coming and going all the time. I can see the queens helicopter just after take off from my desk.

Yesterday I did my daily walk by the sea and noticed an absence of the usual navy ships. In Plymouth there is usually at least one parked up in the bay by the city.

I didn't think it was anything sinister, but assumed the military had changed their normal operations to account for the pandemic.

Slightly off topic, but where have all the aircraft gone? The skies are empty so where do the planes live when they’re not in the air?

Parked up..for example BA have aircraft parked at Bournemouth (mostly short haul), most of their A380s have ended up in France at Chateauroux, most of their 747s have either gone to an airfield in southern Spain or to Kemble in the UK (the later possibly never to fly again).

Near Glasgow and have noticed more helicopters too

For fewer here! There's a military base nearby and we have a lot of huge grey heli's flying over all the time, but dead quiet these days.

All Air Ambulances in the UK have been grounded for the time being and use critical care cars placed in various areas around a county

of course not all air ambulances in the uk have been grounded. How on earth would people get to hospital from the islands?

I'm just north of Stirling and there's been more helicopter traffic, definitely. Though I heard since that they'd found a body in the Allan water so might've been related to that.

How odd. I was just thinking that I can hear a helicopter, we do sometimes as we’re near a motorway and a large junction, but not normally this time of day.

I followed the Flightradar link on the first page and one of the first things I clicked on was an air ambulance 🤷‍♀️

We saw an air ambulance in a local field last week, the pilot was standing outside eating a sandwich. Looked like they were on standby but don't know for sure.

Thank you @notimagain

Look at this! Screen shot of FR24 just now.

I've noticed a little more hekecopter activity than usual but I live near our police hq and a big hospital so it's understandable, really.

A Vulcan did fly over. DH was a plane nut as a kid and recognised it instantly.
I think we worked out it was on its way back to a local base and not an official flight.

Look at this! Screen shot of FR24 just now.

That is an RAF plane. used for in-flight refueling. It could be on an exercise or hanging around waiting to fuel up other planes.

I looked at yesterday’s recorded data and the military-looking plane I saw from the back yard yesterday landed at MCR and is still there (no data is available on the plane type which seems to confirm it’s military rather than commercial). Various airport vehicles have been attending to it so it deffo looks like a supply drop.

Pretty cool.

A Vulcan did fly over.

Unlikely. The RAF hasn't operated Vulcans since 1992/3 and the last time one flew at all was in October 2015.

My husband is a bit of a plane nut too.

I’ve just realised that you are all right. It wasn’t a Vulcan, it was a stealth bomber.

Mea culpa.

Far fewer here than usual.

Usually get the ones going to the offshore rigs. Haven't noticed any recently.

Haven't seen the air ambulance recently. (That's probably a good thing)

The police helicopter often follows the motorway near us, they haven't been out for weeks.

We are just out of the normal fly routes for the military, (they went over my old house 3 miles away). Still haven't seen any of them here.

Maybe they are all watching the the big towns and cities?

It wasn’t a Vulcan, it was a stealth bomber.

I got dragged out in the garden last summer to look at a stream of those going over.

To be honest, they weren't that stealthy. I could see them and they were LOUD!