I see these regularly, they come here in Greenwich, hover in the same spot for about 5mins, then turn around and go away. Is this some training routine?
Think that’s where they wait for airspace clearance before travelling along the Thames
Have u paid your TV license 😂😂😂
They’ve been doing this for years. Just for fun a few of them circled the Shard a while back.
It’s not WWIII, well not yet anyway
This is the future of UberEats 😂
I can feel this video in my diaphragm
These guys occasionally fly over my home, and I can _feel_ them before hearing them.
I’m pretty certain they stay aloft simply by hating the air hard enough.
Can’t park there mate.
Army or RAF Chinook transport. Possibly hover practice?
I was just underneath this by the naval college. I’ve seen memes about men all being entranced by helicopters and found it funny how 3 guys around me took pictures/videos lmao. Make that 4!
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I see them buzz past our flat in Battersea/nine elms all the time. Quite loud but very cool.
It’s Liquid Snake in his Hind D
Just saw this from the southbank! (Well 30 mins ago..)
That’s the weekly chopper that films the opening to Eastenders
They are machines at the end of the day. If you leave them sitting in a warehouse doing nothing for too long they just become rotten and seize up like a car. So taking them out for a spin every so often is necessary.
I sometimes see them following them Thames at low altitude.
So cool
They’re aliens planting invisible chemicals over the public on behalf of the New World Order.
They’re looking for you. Best stay indoors.
Looking for naughty e-bike deliveroo riders!
I live in Kidbrooke and on occasion one will come over and randomly land nearby for like 45 minutes. I assume for funsies?!
it’s two small helicopters mating
Wiggum: (Over loud speaker) “Don’t be alarmed. Continue swimming naked. Oh come on… continue!!! All right, Lou. Open fire”
That was right over my head!
They fly out of RAF Odiham near me, fly up the M3 and then jump onto the Thames and follow along that to London Bridge and even further downstream, then they U-turn and come back. It appears to be a standard training flight for them.
Those are humans who were flies on a past life and Karens in another one.
So they like to be there while judging you.
Down by vauxhall I used to see rhem come up. Sometimes there’d be more than one and one time there were 4/5 Apaches. Really cool
Calibrating the compass.
What they’re doing here is the helicopter equivalent of cottaging, don’t worry about them.
When I lived nearby in Lewisham there used to be one of these that would circle around my house, same time, same day, every week for months on end. It fucked me off to no end.
It’s a sign for you to GET TO THE CHOPPER!
Open the window and let the poor thing out
Dognappers Hun
I strongly suspect these guys are involved when the PM goes to chequers – I think they fly him or accompany his helicopter / car. I live in Islington and they sometimes hover for several minutes before heading North. When Boris was PM they flew most Fridays evenings sometimes into the small hours. The times of the flights seemed to coincide with him being in the country and coming and going from London. If I am right Kier uses them much less.
Been seeing them up here near Leeds recently. Love the sound of them though.
Takes me back to Belfast 1997, with a Latin teacher looking out the window at the noise of those bastards. ‘Peace Process’ suddenly charming the world and its lobster.
He’s trying to tell us about Ovid, or something, but gets drowned out.
He raises an eyebrow, mid-class, and says,
“When they promised de-militarisation, we didn’t think it would be this NOISY.”
Yeah they fly over my apartment too. I think they come from west of London.
Helicopters follow a dedicated helicopter path through London which by in large is just the river Thames, most helicopters follow the Thames until they either touch down at Battersea heliport (which is on the banks of the Thames) or divert away from the Thames to their touch pad/ helipad elsewhere in London.
For an example, if you have a rooftop helipad in Mayfair and you are flying in from your house in Hampshire you would have to fly up to the Thames, along the Thames until you’re nearest point to your Mayfair helipad (nearest point of travel that doesn’t fly over restricted zones (ie Downing Street and Buckingham palace etc)).
In east London the landing slip for city airport crosses over the Thames so there are two points (one east bound one west bound) where helicopters have to hold and wait for instructions to proceed. – typically the helicopter waits for a gap in the planes landing, very occasionally planes are told to hold back for vip helicopter rides – picture trump travelling to Essex for a top up on his tan level VIP.
The rules are different for military craft, by in large they follow domestic rules unless they choose to overrule them, additionally the rules only apply to single prop helicopters, so double prop chinooks may have slightly different rules.
So long and short of it, these chinooks are waiting for a gap in City Airports arrivals which they don’t have to wait for, to fly along a helicopter highway which they don’t have to follow all because it’s easier for the RAF to follow the civilian air traffic control tower.
It’s like when you play GTA and drive without breaking the law .
This is regular?
I happened to be staying in Greenwich the day after the Brexit vote and saw a military helicopter apparently heading for London.
Crossed my mind that maybe someone was organising a coup to sort out David Cameron’s foul up.
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Think that’s where they wait for airspace clearance before travelling along the Thames
Have u paid your TV license 😂😂😂
They’ve been doing this for years. Just for fun a few of them circled the Shard a while back.
It’s not WWIII, well not yet anyway
This is the future of UberEats 😂
I can feel this video in my diaphragm
These guys occasionally fly over my home, and I can _feel_ them before hearing them.
I’m pretty certain they stay aloft simply by hating the air hard enough.
Can’t park there mate.
Army or RAF Chinook transport. Possibly hover practice?
I was just underneath this by the naval college. I’ve seen memes about men all being entranced by helicopters and found it funny how 3 guys around me took pictures/videos lmao. Make that 4!
Checking if you’re w4nkong without authorisation
I see them buzz past our flat in Battersea/nine elms all the time. Quite loud but very cool.
It’s Liquid Snake in his Hind D
Just saw this from the southbank! (Well 30 mins ago..)
That’s the weekly chopper that films the opening to Eastenders
They are machines at the end of the day. If you leave them sitting in a warehouse doing nothing for too long they just become rotten and seize up like a car. So taking them out for a spin every so often is necessary.
I sometimes see them following them Thames at low altitude.
So cool
Waiting for the airspace to clear around City Airport LCY https://www.aurora.nats.co.uk/htmlAIP/Publications/2020-09-10-AIRAC/graphics/97253.pdf
“Oi mate, do you have a licence for that wank?”
They’re watching you!
I’d close the curtains
Bros afk
They’re aliens planting invisible chemicals over the public on behalf of the New World Order.
They’re looking for you. Best stay indoors.
Looking for naughty e-bike deliveroo riders!
I live in Kidbrooke and on occasion one will come over and randomly land nearby for like 45 minutes. I assume for funsies?!
it’s two small helicopters mating
Wiggum: (Over loud speaker) “Don’t be alarmed. Continue swimming naked. Oh come on… continue!!! All right, Lou. Open fire”
That was right over my head!
They fly out of RAF Odiham near me, fly up the M3 and then jump onto the Thames and follow along that to London Bridge and even further downstream, then they U-turn and come back. It appears to be a standard training flight for them.
Are you sure other people can see them?
The BFG is on the loose.
Greenwich. Shit, I’m still only in Greenwich.
https://preview.redd.it/2oeg705j61kf1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54aa878cd58da33f8a37e1fa156dcf2436b94dba
Those are humans who were flies on a past life and Karens in another one.
So they like to be there while judging you.
Down by vauxhall I used to see rhem come up. Sometimes there’d be more than one and one time there were 4/5 Apaches. Really cool
Calibrating the compass.
What they’re doing here is the helicopter equivalent of cottaging, don’t worry about them.
When I lived nearby in Lewisham there used to be one of these that would circle around my house, same time, same day, every week for months on end. It fucked me off to no end.
It’s a sign for you to GET TO THE CHOPPER!
Open the window and let the poor thing out
Dognappers Hun
I strongly suspect these guys are involved when the PM goes to chequers – I think they fly him or accompany his helicopter / car. I live in Islington and they sometimes hover for several minutes before heading North. When Boris was PM they flew most Fridays evenings sometimes into the small hours. The times of the flights seemed to coincide with him being in the country and coming and going from London. If I am right Kier uses them much less.
Synchronising their watches.
https://preview.redd.it/81g3hvu4n1kf1.jpeg?width=1680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16dec3687556ac6f4f647a169d7f5dd6886c9e4d
Been seeing them up here near Leeds recently. Love the sound of them though.
Takes me back to Belfast 1997, with a Latin teacher looking out the window at the noise of those bastards. ‘Peace Process’ suddenly charming the world and its lobster.
He’s trying to tell us about Ovid, or something, but gets drowned out.
He raises an eyebrow, mid-class, and says,
“When they promised de-militarisation, we didn’t think it would be this NOISY.”
Yeah they fly over my apartment too. I think they come from west of London.
Helicopters follow a dedicated helicopter path through London which by in large is just the river Thames, most helicopters follow the Thames until they either touch down at Battersea heliport (which is on the banks of the Thames) or divert away from the Thames to their touch pad/ helipad elsewhere in London.
For an example, if you have a rooftop helipad in Mayfair and you are flying in from your house in Hampshire you would have to fly up to the Thames, along the Thames until you’re nearest point to your Mayfair helipad (nearest point of travel that doesn’t fly over restricted zones (ie Downing Street and Buckingham palace etc)).
In east London the landing slip for city airport crosses over the Thames so there are two points (one east bound one west bound) where helicopters have to hold and wait for instructions to proceed. – typically the helicopter waits for a gap in the planes landing, very occasionally planes are told to hold back for vip helicopter rides – picture trump travelling to Essex for a top up on his tan level VIP.
The rules are different for military craft, by in large they follow domestic rules unless they choose to overrule them, additionally the rules only apply to single prop helicopters, so double prop chinooks may have slightly different rules.
So long and short of it, these chinooks are waiting for a gap in City Airports arrivals which they don’t have to wait for, to fly along a helicopter highway which they don’t have to follow all because it’s easier for the RAF to follow the civilian air traffic control tower.
It’s like when you play GTA and drive without breaking the law .
This is regular?
I happened to be staying in Greenwich the day after the Brexit vote and saw a military helicopter apparently heading for London.
Crossed my mind that maybe someone was organising a coup to sort out David Cameron’s foul up.
Evidently didn’t happen.
We had one fly over eastchurch this afternoon
I think you might be under military surveillance.
They watching you watching them
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