Annoying Helicopter

[StylinRed]

Okay so for the past few weeks there's been a helicopter flying overhead consistently in the early afternoon I was like "whatever"

but late @ night i can hear it flying overhead too


and today I saw it fly over the nearest intersection and it was flying low... like low enough that i thought it would hit a neighbours roof / tree in their yard i could make out the pilot even!

its a plain white Chopper with a Red stripe near its tail


and literally just now it flew over our neighbourhood again! @ 4:30am

it doesn't have a spotlight shining but when i looked up you could see the little light on underneath it and again it was low....


wtf???? Maple Ridge btw near Golden Ears park

/rant



edit: there was a grow op bust in june in maple ridge where they had their own chopper @ the site too
wonder if this is another.... but the chopper i saw was pretty big looked bigger than the Air1 chopper

[SkinnyPupp]

[StylinRed]

rofl

if they were doin that they should just knock on the door in the afternoon and let an insomniac Try to sleep @ this hour

[illicitstylz]

brb weapons store

[punkwax]

Ya, if its a low flying chopper near golden ears, there's a good chance its looking for grow ops.

That little light you're seeing may be a thermal detector if they're looking for indoor ops.

[StylinRed]

^ i guess that makes sense but the thing isn't even painted in police colours

whatever it is its annoying as hell



IM STILL AWAKE NOW -_-

[tiger_handheld]

point a green laser at it ...
maybe call the non-emerg # and see if they know anything about it ?

[murd0c]

I believe I say that one yesterday afternoon flying low in Poco. It could be some sort of training maybe?

[GabAlmighty]

If you can make out the pilot then you should be able to grab the ident off him. Then file a CADORS for him cuz unless he's landing or it's a cop he's illegal.

[Greenstoner]

i went camping at golden ear last week, was it Yellow heli ?

there were 1 or 2 constantly flying around when i was there

[Teh Doucher]

ghetto bird yo

[murd0c]

I'm thinking it was white with a red stripe the one I saw yesterday was anyways. I believe the yellow ones are search and rescue or for firefighting

[Greenstoner]

Originally Posted by murd0c

I'm thinking it was white with a red stripe the one I saw yesterday was anyways. I believe the yellow ones are search and rescue or for firefighting

yeh, you are right

i believe the yellow one is indeed for search and rescue

[Eatman]

Search on for missing Kelowna-bound helicopter - News1130

[StylinRed]

^^^ a bit far from the search area

& yeah its a white one with the red stripe the yellows are the rescue


i should have looked for his # but all i was more shocked by a heli flying so low
i dont even recall seeing numbers on it

[GabAlmighty]

Originally Posted by StylinRed

i dont even recall seeing numbers on it

Letter bro, it's gonna be letters (unless it's an american heli). It'll be Gxxx or Fxxx. If it's american it'll be Nxxxx

[MWR34]

be worried bro.

[BillyBishop]

If you can grab the aircraft registration, that's your best bet. C-FXXX or C-GXXX is what you'll see along the tail boom and possibly on the bottom of the fuselage. (If it's an American plane it'll be N#####, like GabAlmighty said. It may have one or two letters, though.)

Once you get the ident, you can find out some information quite easily:
Canadian Civil Aircraft Register - Quick Search
Go to that link and plug the ident into the field "Mark" and you'll see a lot of information including who the registered owner is.

To actually report the incident, go to this link:
Report an Incident - Report an Aviation Incident
Under Incident type, you can select "Alleged regulatory infraction." (If you're interested in which regulation it is, search up CARs 602.12 - 602.15.)


GabAlmighty, I take it you fly?

[GabAlmighty]

That's correct good sir, yourself?

[BillyBishop]

I do, I do. Nice to know of other pilots here on RS. Can't say I'm surprised... we've quite the member-base here.

[GabAlmighty]

Originally Posted by Boundless

I do, I do. Nice to know of other pilots here on RS. Can't say I'm surprised... we've quite the member-base here.

Ya there's a few of us on here... We should get our own thread going haha. Are you working or training?

[AzNightmare]

lol, wasn't there a thread similar to this about a week ago?
and people said it was because they were looking for a lost old man?

[7seven]

Did you notice if there was a camera mounted to the front? At times film/tv productions will have heli's fly over the city/suburbs pretty low to get stock aerial footage, which would require the heli to fly over the same pattern continually multiple times. When this happened last month in downtown Vancouver around midnight, there were a lot of calls to 911 lol.

[melloman]

Originally Posted by tiger_handheld

maybe call the non-emerg # and see if they know anything about it ?

^^^ But do try and get an ID # off of it aswell, can always make things easier then just calling and saying: "There's this annoying helicopter flying low over my house.. it's white with a red stripe.."

[BillyBishop]

Originally Posted by GabAlmighty

Ya there's a few of us on here... We should get our own thread going haha. Are you working or training?

I wish I was working haha. Got my PPL a few years ago through cadets and just chipping away at my CPL slowly now.