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.

We had the air ambulance land very close to one of our fields last week.
It did cause huge problems as the livestock (cows & calves & pregnant cows due calves) we lost 8 on to public heathland - took us 8 hours solid to get them all back in. We lost one calf & potentially a second (so damage ran into tens of thousands £)
It was a car collision where the car burst into glames with one serious injured.

I don't begrudge them it at all. It was needed to save someone's life so they had to do it but I do think there should be compensation either through the ambulance service or the injured person when serious property damage occurs.

I don't think the ambulance service would smash up £20k worth of people's homes or cars or kill people's cats/dogs in the town in order to get to an injured person more quickly & expect people to accept that.

Oddly I like the sound. But I grew up on a military base so heard all kinds of sounds daily.

the sound that annoys me the most are my neighbors slamming their car doors throughout the day.

We had one circling in our area this weekend. Reason, trying to find a teenage boy washed out to sea. It wasn't a good ending 😪

Its an odd thing if you cant compute that there are areas in the UK where there will be either a police helicopter regularly or any other type, they are almost daily here.

Military areas
Built up areas
The coast
Helicopter stations nearby

We live near an airport and get all that lot aswell, my partner is a keen aviation photographer as his job in the navy was fixing the helicopters and planes. He will sit down at the airport for hours but if I go there for anymore than 30 minutes I want to scream for the noise unless I have a good book and I get lost in it.

We get the helicopters checking the power lines here. It's semi regular and they come down quite low, it makes a right racket.

I remember being woken up by a search light when I lived in a bigger city. Someone who'd stolen a car trying to make off through our back gardens. That was disconcerting!

I’ve always found the Westlands helicopter noise quite comforting. I also like the sound of the Yeovilton fighter jets overhead. I think it just reminds me of being a child, being outside all day and that noise being the backdrop to growing up. I sometimes put aeroplane sounds on in the background if I need to concentrate on something. I appreciate that doesn’t sound normal!

We get both of those, plus the police one. The police here seem to use any excuse to get the helicopter out, sometimes it's just to monitor traffic if there's been an accident on a busy trunk road.

I've seen the air ambulance land twice when I've been out walking, both times to pick up horseriders who were injured in falls. The bridleways can be a long way from a road, so getting them to hospital any other way would've been difficult and time consuming. I'm very glad they use them and don't mind the noise a bit.

Mind you, I grew up near Biggin Hill so I'm used to noisier things than helicopters.

I live in Frome, on the border of Somerset and Wilts. We get very little air traffic but as there are a fair few military bases(Warminster, Salisbury, Larkhall) we get a few helicopters. There’s been a huge increase the last few days though due to Glastonbury. Helicopters don’t bother me though.

there are 2 noises which grate though….1 reasonable, the other I know is totally unreasonable. I hate hate hate the noise of cars or motorcycles revving up. It’s so unnecessary. Why do they do it? The other is emergency sirens but I have to accept that’s a fact of life and I’m just glad it’s not for me. When I lived in London it was awful and one of the reasons I left. I lived in Haringey and worked in Hackney where incidents involving emergency services happened all the time and it just stressed me out. Before I’m pounced on I know they’re necessary, doesn’t mean I have to like it!!!!

I worked at said helicopter factory for 23 years. Can honestly say I hardly noticed the noise. Especially inside the offices. Do you work outside a lot? Personally I hope they keep flying - it pays my pension!

Fart and furious!!

If they're circling that long, they're probably trying to locate a missing person.

I live south coast and have coastguard, military and police and air ambulance quite often.

The military ones are usually Chinooks so quite noisy, we also have at various times during the year, a Spitfire aircraft which you can go up for half an hour for an astonishing fee you might need to sell the family silver for.

I don't mind any of that noise and I also love the sound of the train during the night, it's almost hypnotic but the tit in my road who accelerates his hideous motorbike early in the morning on occasion and never fails to wake me up fills me with rage. Useless idiot!

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Only noise that annoys me comes from the people who deliberately modify their stupid cars or motorbikes to be as loud as possible to the point where you can hear them coming from about a mile away, if not more.

And then those same people who repeatedly drive up along your road every bloody day.

Far more annoying than any helicopter, imo.

Try living near Odiham in Hampshire. Chinooks at all hours of the day and night. Double rotors chugging across the sky.

Or in Wiltshire, the training night flights using analogue radio (going back a few years) so the tower chat would feed back through my radio alarm clock.

I'd be peacefully asleep, then a loud voice, right next to me, yelling 'Oscar Charlie 84, can you change course to heading blah blah blah.' I rang the airbase one night and asked them to keep the noise down, that I could hear every word. 😁

Spare a thought for the people who live ear Glastonbury yesterday;