Helicopters can piss off

[Nursingadvice]

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.

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 🙄

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?

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

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

Is it the Police helicopter looking for someone?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 😅

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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