Strange Flying in the Skies
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:14 pm
I live by a major international airport, so constant air traffic is nothing unusual for me. And I love seing planes as they fly final approach, parralel to my balcony. Eye Level.
So what I want to talk about is the helicopter that came in today. And as you imagine by now, it was nothing ordinary. All day long, since i woke up the planes have been flying by my building. Due to the northerly winds today. Next, I hear a helicopter sound. I could make out that it was low and coming in from the west. I looked for it to pass by my window POV. But it did not, so I thought it would just pass my place by the time I went to the balcony, so I did not bother looking for it. But after 40 seconds the sound was still there and was not getting fainter.
So I took my camera and ran out to the balcony, the helicopter was hovering, pointed perpendicular in the direction the planes where doing final landing aproaches. I guessed he was ordered by the ATC to hold, until a plane passes by. I took a picture, and as a plane flew by the helicopter rotated to keep the plane in view, I guess he was rotating just because he could, playing fighter pilot? The plane passed and he was still hovering, shortly in came the next plane. He was still hovering, and now started backing up and drifting towards me, passing right above me and my building, during this I took a fiew nice close up pics. He desepeared from view above me, but the sound was still there. A minute latter he flys right across the line where planes are coming in, does a huge circle, and another, meanwhile I am thinking WTF? Cops? no, and it can not be news stations, they are flying like drunk.
After the second circle there is again another plane coming in on aproach, the helicopter fly towards it, full speed. The plane makes no moves, and the helicopter files right by the faking plane. I was so suprised by this, that I managed to take only one pic of this, right after the helicopter passed the nose of the plane.
After this the helicopter picks up some serious speed, and disappears on to a dot, above the city. And I take one more picture.
What was the helicopter doing? It was not cops, as the copter was black, and the police chopter here is white. From the pictures the helicopter looks to bee either the Bell 407 or Bell 412EP or the Griffin. Wierdness.
Pics comming in latter, when I get home and upload them.
So what I want to talk about is the helicopter that came in today. And as you imagine by now, it was nothing ordinary. All day long, since i woke up the planes have been flying by my building. Due to the northerly winds today. Next, I hear a helicopter sound. I could make out that it was low and coming in from the west. I looked for it to pass by my window POV. But it did not, so I thought it would just pass my place by the time I went to the balcony, so I did not bother looking for it. But after 40 seconds the sound was still there and was not getting fainter.
So I took my camera and ran out to the balcony, the helicopter was hovering, pointed perpendicular in the direction the planes where doing final landing aproaches. I guessed he was ordered by the ATC to hold, until a plane passes by. I took a picture, and as a plane flew by the helicopter rotated to keep the plane in view, I guess he was rotating just because he could, playing fighter pilot? The plane passed and he was still hovering, shortly in came the next plane. He was still hovering, and now started backing up and drifting towards me, passing right above me and my building, during this I took a fiew nice close up pics. He desepeared from view above me, but the sound was still there. A minute latter he flys right across the line where planes are coming in, does a huge circle, and another, meanwhile I am thinking WTF? Cops? no, and it can not be news stations, they are flying like drunk.
After the second circle there is again another plane coming in on aproach, the helicopter fly towards it, full speed. The plane makes no moves, and the helicopter files right by the faking plane. I was so suprised by this, that I managed to take only one pic of this, right after the helicopter passed the nose of the plane.
After this the helicopter picks up some serious speed, and disappears on to a dot, above the city. And I take one more picture.
What was the helicopter doing? It was not cops, as the copter was black, and the police chopter here is white. From the pictures the helicopter looks to bee either the Bell 407 or Bell 412EP or the Griffin. Wierdness.
Pics comming in latter, when I get home and upload them.
