I live in a small village surrounded by countryside, the amount of times we have a helicopter circling is ridiculous. It's been said that they're trying to catch drug pushers in the woods behind us. Yeah, right!
I wonder if they use it as a training ground tbh, the same as they use the nearby junction and stretch of road as a training ground for police cars to go na naaing by ten times a bloody day.
I live on the coast and about once a month there's a coastguard helicopter overhead in the small hours checking the coastline with thermal imaging cameras. It's incredibly loud, goes on for well over an hour.
I also had a scary night a few years ago where a police helicopter was shining a high-intensity searchlight through the gardens at 2am, including my own. It was like a scene from Close Encounters, only instead of 'ET' I expected to be taken hostage by an escaped crim at any moment.
When aircraft top up their fuel in flight, sometimes the long pipey thing droops downwards after they disconnect it and falls down someone's chimney and so they find themselves flying round and round in circles until it breaks loose or your chimney falls apart which has it's benefits as it saves you having to sweep it.
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Working near Manchester Airport the planes sometimes circle for a while before landing because something is on the runway blocking their landing.:)
Quick question; What is 'DS Project Contestant' all about?
Myth. Aircraft do not "burn off" fuel to land.
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I am presuming this is a light aircraft, rather than something larger.
I wonder if they use it as a training ground tbh, the same as they use the nearby junction and stretch of road as a training ground for police cars to go na naaing by ten times a bloody day.
I also had a scary night a few years ago where a police helicopter was shining a high-intensity searchlight through the gardens at 2am, including my own. It was like a scene from Close Encounters, only instead of 'ET' I expected to be taken hostage by an escaped crim at any moment.