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In reply to the discussion: Military helicopters overhead in the middle of LA. [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)(One was Cadet Commander of his squadron) and they would do the same as your sons - RUN over each other scrambling to get out of the house to see what was overhead. They could tell you exactly what any aircraft was.
My (last) ex is a pilot and sometimes circles my place if he's flying a chopper rather than fixed wing in my area when my youngest is here, which rattles the neighbors but is always a lot of fun.
But NOTHING is as loud as the military jets that blow past. They test a few every day but the sonic boom hits the folks a bit north of us so I just get the "that damn thing must be on the roof" sensation.
I can imagine a dozen Blackhawks right down in your face would be really jarring and frightening if you weren't used to it. And I would think going over dense residential areas is rather cruel knowing the noise those things make when a dozen are storming over. The Op says this is a new occurrence, so one wonders why the new flight path in LA?
I can understand someone being really upset by it, and would not ridicule an older person who wanted to vent about it. But that's just me.
Glad they found the perp, BTW, mercuryblues. I am in the flight path for Lifeflight to Chattanooga, and the choppers fly over at all hours. But no chopper is as loud as a military chopper. A dozen of them? I'd be pissed as well.