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Cookastorm

12 posts

Cookastorm

WA, 12 posts

25 Mar 2011 12:26pm

anyone see that helicopter that flew over pinnaroo the other day
narly
im sure the dude with the green north kite did
it flew rather close over the top of his kite

what was that all about!!
are they allowed to fly that close
surely they know thats a popular kite beach
are they trying to thin the kite population out

or was it and optical illusion
and the chopper flew over at a safe height

what if a kiter jumps really high right at that moment and splat

AKSonline

925 posts

AKSonline

WA, 925 posts

25 Mar 2011 1:27pm

Hey Cookastorm,

I'm pretty sure all aircraft have a 500ft minimum height for the stretch along the coast. Sometimes it looks really low and like you could boost into the awaiting blades, but reality is, your lines are less than 100ft and even if you could boost 100ft up you'd still be well short.

Just wait until the Airforce are doing training and you get a group of jets fly by at just under mach 1. Scares the bejesus out of you!

Elroy Jetson

706 posts

Elroy Jetson

WA, 706 posts

25 Mar 2011 2:50pm

Maybe there is a US Navy ship in Freo atm?

A military helicopter flew over Brighton twice on Wednesday arvo. It was very low. Looked to be double the height of the kites so it probably was actually 3 line lengths. Didnt see anyone attempt to boost underneath it!

Doggfather

14 posts

Doggfather

WA, 14 posts

25 Mar 2011 5:30pm

Yeh I saw that chopper. It definitely wasn't an optical illusion that guy was way too close to the kites. Some of them even responded to the helicopters blades messing with the air. We all agreed the guy must have been trying to scare the kiters.

Would love to see kiteboarder vs airforce lawsuit.

tightlines

3510 posts

tightlines

WA, 3510 posts

25 Mar 2011 6:33pm

A military chopper flew past Pinnaroo/Mullaloo fairly low again today, it didn't look any more than about 100mtrs up, I was on my Stand Up though so was no worries but on the lighthouse to leighton you could definitely feel the air disturbances in the canopy from the low flying choppers.

Chris6791

3271 posts

Chris6791

WA, 3271 posts

26 Mar 2011 12:22am

Our navy and some NZ ships have been doing some training off the coast and going by the house shaking and rattling I presume some ship to shore bombing of some sort at the range just up from Lano over the last few days. There are a lots more helicopters buzzing around for that?

RPM

1549 posts

RPM

WA, 1549 posts

26 Mar 2011 6:14pm

Blackhawks were working with SASR doing water drops off Mullas on Thurs.

SlingshotT3

7 posts

SlingshotT3

WA, 7 posts

16 Apr 2011 2:10pm

there was a boing 737 the other day flew incredibly low in the sky over pinaroo it looked awesome but i dumped my kite straight away, i wasnt taking any risks, it didnt help being it was a very gusty day also.. must of been doing a detour or something its not very often you see that !

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