The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions The place for students, instructors and charter guys in Oz, NZ and the rest of Oceania.

Helicopters cause PTSD

Old 30th Oct 2014, 05:03
  #1 (permalink)  
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Out tha back
Posts: 26
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Helicopters cause PTSD

Also posted in Rotorheads, but this is a bit home grown.

Helicopters flying overhead apparently cause negative emotional & psychological trauma.

Amongst other things....



Last edited by Left_Pedal; 30th Oct 2014 at 09:49.
Left_Pedal is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 06:14
  #2 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 58
Posts: 2,210
Received 66 Likes on 34 Posts
Whinging nimby!

Probably drives a Toyota Prius to save the Dolphins!
Stationair8 is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 06:33
  #3 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 565
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Actually, she probably drives a Toorak Tractor but wouldn't see the irony!
wishiwasupthere is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 06:53
  #4 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 563
Received 20 Likes on 7 Posts
what are helicopter pilors
kingRB is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 09:12
  #5 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Downwind
Posts: 348
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Wow.

I'm amazed the author manages to read the newspaper, providing as it does an annoying rustling as the pages are turned, with the attendant risk of paper cuts.

It sounds to me as though anything the author doesn't like IS a life or death emergency, ergo having a helicopter constantly overhead would be an ideal solution.
Freewheel is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 10:03
  #6 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: NSW
Posts: 436
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
You get PTSD from working on them :-/
Hasherucf is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 13:07
  #7 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: N/A
Posts: 5,882
Received 362 Likes on 192 Posts
the author doesn't like IS
Does anybody like IS?
megan is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 13:13
  #8 (permalink)  

Avoid imitations
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Wandering the FIR and cyberspace often at highly unsociable times
Posts: 14,561
Received 402 Likes on 210 Posts
OUR airspace?

She actually thinks she OWNS airspace? Does she have it on the deeds of her property?
ShyTorque is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 14:37
  #9 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: WA
Posts: 1,290
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
Pretentious self righteous cow
YPJT is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 18:06
  #10 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Aimlessly wandering
Posts: 170
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I propose everyone mark this woman's property on your WAC and make it a mandatory fly over point, in support of Wild Blue Helicopters.

If there is a runway nearby we should all drop in and say G'day, perhaps some aeros overhead would put the "emotional and psychological trauma" into perspective. I for one will happily burn some fuel and go out of my way to give this woman the sh!ts.

It's about time GA was no longer beholden to the whims of a single whinger, and the greater good is considered.
50 50 is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 19:07
  #11 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: australia
Posts: 1,044
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Mmm me wonders if she like wind turbines ?
yr right is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 20:27
  #12 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 3,861
Received 168 Likes on 95 Posts
I suspect the cause is more PMS related.
Squawk7700 is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 21:16
  #13 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 1,390
Received 20 Likes on 6 Posts
Her last sentence says it all. She wants a referendum
Fris B. Fairing is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 23:29
  #14 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: australia
Posts: 1,044
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
50/50
A long time ago at Camden. They allowed houses to be located just of the strip. Residence complained then about the aircraft noise. On person said they fly so low I can here them changing gears above my place. Word got out quickly and everyone revved up and down over this particular persons house. Was then in joke for years. Strange but ture
yr right is offline  
Old 30th Oct 2014, 23:39
  #15 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Aimlessly wandering
Posts: 170
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I have heard that story before, there's also Watts Bridge in Qld. One clown has built exactly on the extended centreline, then complains about aircraft over his farmhouse. It's not like he was running short of room, it's a bloody farm!
50 50 is offline  
Old 31st Oct 2014, 02:52
  #16 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Next door to the neighbor from hell, who believes in chemtrails!
Age: 75
Posts: 1,807
Received 25 Likes on 18 Posts
I propose everyone mark this woman's property on your WAC and make it a mandatory fly over point, in support of Wild Blue Helicopters.
And if you can somehow manage to drop a sickbag or two right over her house so much the better!

DF.
Desert Flower is offline  
Old 31st Oct 2014, 03:07
  #17 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: WA
Posts: 1,290
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
I do the occasional Angel Flight into YMGT. More than happy to lose navigational awareness and do some searching for the airstrip on the way in.

As she is so offended by aircraft noise, you would hope that she does not have the hypocrisy to board a commercial flight anywhere that just might fly over someone elses house during the take-off or approach.
YPJT is offline  
Old 31st Oct 2014, 03:18
  #18 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: QRH
Posts: 546
Received 5 Likes on 2 Posts
Since when did a Robbo go, "wump-wump-wump"? She must have had Apocalypse Now stuck in the VCR for the last 30 years.
Led Zep is offline  
Old 31st Oct 2014, 05:40
  #19 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: The bush
Posts: 269
Likes: 0
Received 13 Likes on 7 Posts
Too many episodes of *M*A*S*H*. The Bell-47 obviously sent her crazy.

It was Hot Lips Houlihan that did it for me........
The Banjo is offline  
Old 31st Oct 2014, 07:13
  #20 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Running up that hill
Posts: 308
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
"It is impossible to overestimate the negative emotional and psychological trauma experienced by ordinary people on the ground. I feel threatened and seriously violated by the sound of helicopters flying overhead, with emotional reactions ranging from mild fear and annoyance, to anger and paranoia."
At the risk on being pompous/patronising and assuming thats not just hyperbole to get the point across, that makes me think the author has serious problems and genuinely needs help. A reaction that extreme to a not unusual event surely points to something else?
Nautilus Blue is offline  

Thread Tools
Search this Thread

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.