Brett has sourced a replacement door so will be continuing his flights. He said to me he will try the Feds again John.

Huey.

There looks to be a crease in the door a few inches under the window, a result of the impact on the window or a separate impact?
What are the black marks to the left of the door latches?


Mickjoebill

I'm sure, also that the vandal has absolutely not the slightest idea that
his token gesture of breaking a $5 piece of plastic from the DIY store, has actually cost several thousand dollars to rectify.

Joe Public hasn't a clue about the telephone-number prices in Aviation.

You can now get battery-powered surveillance-cameras with a SD memory-card...discreet and powerful! download the card about once a week, i believe.-play through a TV, Computer or even some printers.

G'day Mick,

that was an old injury to the door, bit of a bugger that it's there because a lot have asked about that big scratch.

OneTrack's right unfortunately, the WAPOL & Feds don't have any interest in this. There's been no further investigations and without any further evidence, DNA, prints etc, it'll lay dormant unless the crim spills the beans or tries at again during daylight hours.

The machine is now being hidden of an evening. The focus for me now is to get back into preparing for the summer season and the excess bill from the insurance company for the door.

All up this incident will cost me in the vicinity of about $8000 to $10,000 which will probably sink me in the long term.

They are called Game Cameras, originally designed for watching animals in an area day and night (Search Youtube and Google and you can see just how good they are). We leave them out in the bush for weeks on end, getting rained on, frozen and they continue to work.

The big benefit of them is that they don't use up a lot of battery life just sitting there doing nothing and really only use power (battery life) when something triggers them to take a series of photos or a video. Combine that with the superb, very low discharge Eneloop Rechargeable Batteries and they can go months.

I am surprised more airfields don't have them in hangars etc, a very small price to pay to get a photo.

In case any of you do look at them in the future, the one's to get are those that can take IR photos and video WITHOUT showing any sort of red light on the front (dead give away in a dark building).

Hope that helps.

I don't know that the police will not investigate but when they do what evidence would they find?

security camera footage?

if you can't work out who vandalised the chopper why do you think they could?

Hi, Left Pedal.
Hows about an A3 size poster in a stake, plonked on the site where your machine was vandalised?

"reward $10,000
damage to heli.
here. xx. xx.xx
info. leading to
conviction will
be well paid.
contact xxx"

With a bit of luck, thick vandal's mate may think he's getting the 10K
a post, plywood, paper glue and a big felt -tip, shouldn't cost more than $20 and that may be the best investment you've ever made.

Even if you don't get a bean back,the deterrent value of being caught,is priceless.

Helicopters cause PTSD
 

Helicopters flying overhead apparently cause negative emotional & psychological trauma.

Amongst other things....


http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/IMG_8899.jpg

I am not into anything related to flying .. but, maybe Mr Forest can put up a note that his property cannot be flown over for joy rides ?

Silent majority opposing ? Opposing what ?

The whole thing is a numbers game: Having airliner traffic landing at runway 11 in Vienna means they are descending above roughly 200.000 residents in during their less than 3000ft AGL approach path section, with duration of noise app. 60secs.

Personall'y I'd say one landing per hour is irrelevant, maybe even a feature, along the lines of "damn, that must be the 2PM flight, I gotta do ...".
Ramping up towards two flights per hour, maybe even four per hour, like the old mantlepiece clocks chiming every 15 mins is still ok, at least for a +1.5 million people city. Mind you I'm speaking as an aviation afficinado and helo pilot, YMMV.

But directing an airliner every 90secs over that path is a major nuissance, especially in calm no-wind or even slight tail wind weather.


Thus
it all boils down to find a number of flights (per flight path) per day that the majority of residents can be convinced of being tolerable in a modern, free world. A gentle reminder that neither party owns the sky could be a levelling intro speech.
That task requires cooperation and tolerance on both sides.

Once these numbers (per flight path) have been established it's up to the operators to split the cake evenly among them. Again, this requires cooperation and tolerance among all operators, and some backing up by authorities, to prevent a new, "****'em, airspace is class G" type op ruining the delicate balance.

I'd say both parts are hard work, but worth attempting. Chances of success will diminish steeply when temper rises. Being polite and explaining the cost a smashed window resulted in could both be unxepected news for the residents.

Good luck & go for it.