Terrible Chinook and appaches here above our naburehood.

[kees52]

Hi All


Are there more places where this happens? because I do not like it the whole day and people who work at night need sleep.

I think most country's has a unpopulated place for this millitairy airports.

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The whole house do fibrate on ultralow frequency's a tapped horn can not do. I think it is also not very good for the construction.

regards

 

[billshurv]

I have lived in the vicinity of RAF Odiham for 25 odd years now where 3 chinook squadrons are based. I find the 'wokka wokka' of a chinook rather comforting. Mind you we were also in the flight path for concorde and I used to listen for that 3 times a day.

 

[Earl Grey]

As a child / teenager I also lived within a few miles of Odiham so they were a very regular sight and sound. I can't say it ever bothered me personally, but then again, I enjoy seeing aircraft in general.

 

[mondogenerator]

I spent 6 weeks or so working in Tilburg Nederlands, a decade ago, when I worked in warehousing.

We always stayed in the Ibis Tilburg, which is a budget hotel, lovely friendly staff, but only 5 meals.

Every night the Apaches came chopping over our heads, flying low and loud in the small hours of the night.

I think there was a large US airbase nearby.

 

[Zeta4]

I live near RAF Benson in a small village. We often see Pumas,s and Chinooks practising
at low level around us over the fields. Sometimes they seem to be flying below roof top level! Luckily we dont get much at night.

 

[billshurv]

I see Pumas over the office heading in the general direction of Wallingford sometimes.

 

[jan.didden]

I spent 6 weeks or so working in Tilburg Nederlands, a decade ago, when I worked in warehousing.

We always stayed in the Ibis Tilburg, which is a budget hotel, lovely friendly staff, but only 5 meals.

Every night the Apaches came chopping over our heads, flying low and loud in the small hours of the night.

I think there was a large US airbase nearby.

The main NL helicopter training base is about 12km from Tilburg ...

Jan

 

[FauxFrench]

You are right in that the noise can be a huge problem. Unfortunately, The Netherlands is very compact all around the Randstadt area. If you want an airport also to be used for rescue helicopters, it is difficult to place it without irritating someone. I know, these may be military flights and could in theory be put in the north-east or Zeeland. My guess is, it is expensive to maintain facilities for rescue helicopters only and perhaps the airport came before many of the massive living areas in the south where land is still to be found.
Sorry!

 

[mondogenerator]

^ hahaha Jan that explains everything!

I loved Tilburg, like a home from home (Cloggy Coventry was my affectionate nick name for the place)

Just like home, only 4 or 5 nightclubs, and they're all pretty cheesy, but I was always welcomed like a superstar!

 

[jan.didden]

I was always welcomed like a superstar!

Mebby you are one!

Jan

 

[mondogenerator]

Nah, the Dutch are just lovely people, generalizing, but I was made to feel very welcome. Many of my work colleagues from those days emigrated to Holland, and still stay there to this day.

 

[FauxFrench]

Nah, the Dutch are just lovely people, generalizing, but I was made to feel very welcome. Many of my work colleagues from those days emigrated to Holland, and still stay there to this day.

What was the percentage of "foreigners" in Philips engineering and even management? Quite high I believe.

 

[6L6]

Chinook, being a tandem rotor, have such a unique and interesting sound that I always go out to hear them. Nothing else makes that noise - it's fascinating!

 

[billshurv]

Even my 2 year old can tell the difference between a normal chopper and a Chinook!


Aside: despite them being big, noisy and probably exceedingly expensive to run they can do some things that just aren't possible with other aircraft.

 

[tobydog]

We know when there's a Chinook approaching, the house starts rattling before we hear them

 

[Refugee1]

When I lived in Farnborough we used to see lots of aircraft of all shapes and sizes.
I once heard one that I could not recognize by sound.
It looked like it was flying backwards having a tail like fin above the cockpit. It also had the props on the trailing edge of the wings almost as if for even more backwards flying effect.

 

[Earl Grey]

Probably a Piaggio P.180 Avanti - Wikipedia. Very distinctive sounding (one used to run as a corporate shuttle out of a small airport I spent a lot of time at).

 

[Refugee1]

It had a longer body with the front fin above the cockpit and a smaller tail.

 

[billshurv]

Yeah I've seen a few canard pushers heading that way. Not sure of the make. I miss working round there during air show week. Fun watching all the test pilots pull stunts to impress the despots.

 

[Refugee1]

Another distinctive sound from my days there was the V22 vertical take off fixed wing planes.
They did not catch on due to there tendency to burn holes in the tarmac when they were taking off.