Wreckless?

Green Gooner

Hi all!

In the region where i live (the North West), there was a big fire last night (a gorse fire I believe) which brings me to my question.

There are helicopters in the area today and some were flying really low. Now at this point the fire/s are out and I'm guessing that is why they are there in the first place. Now at what height are helicopters required to fly at? These helicopters were quite low and I know for a fact they really stress animals (horses and cattles can have heart attacks due to the stress cause by noise etc if they are quite low, which these certainly were).

Any one know?

FlutterinBantam

'Reckless' horse.

irish1967

Check out thread in donegal forum these 3 big helicopters are flying in formation all over the county today !!

Sterling Archer

Well it's 500ft min. Except for landing taking off obviously :rolleyes: ,

Steyr

irish1967 wrote: »

Check out thread in donegal forum these 3 big helicopters are flying in formation all over the county today !!

Air Corps AW139's.

irish1967

Wow. Do we own 3 of them ?

Steyr

irish1967 wrote: »

Wow. Do we own 3 of them ?

6.

Sterling Archer

Check the video

airvan

If it's the Air Corps being military they are not bound by the Rules of the Air. So they can fly as low as they like.

punchdrunk

i'd rather risk them having heart attacks than do nothing about it and let them prematurely turn into the Sunday roast TBH...

Stovepipe

Look, this thing about horses being scared of helicopters is bollox. The wealthy horsey set have plenty of their own helicopters and don't seem to have a problem using them at their own stud farms or at race courses. Race horses also travel in noisy trailers and trucks and are shipped abroad in noisy aircraft at noisy airports.They live on farms where there are noisy tractors and other noisy farming equipment and where people frequently shoot shotguns. When they are raced, they are surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands of noisy people shouting at them and a little man or woman sits on their backs and cracks a whip in their ears. A helicopter passing by is a very minor nuisance by comparison.The countryside is a noisy place on a normal day!
Air Corps pilots are bound by the Rules of the Air,just like any other pilot, except where special provision has been made to allow them to deliberately conduct low-flying training.
regards
Stovepipe

globemaster1986

Stovepipe wrote: »

Look, this thing about horses being scared of helicopters is bollox. The wealthy horsey set have plenty of their own helicopters and don't seem to have a problem using them at their own stud farms or at race courses. Race horses also travel in noisy trailers and trucks and are shipped abroad in noisy aircraft at noisy airports.They live on farms where there are noisy tractors and other noisy farming equipment and where people frequently shoot shotguns. When they are raced, they are surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands of noisy people shouting at them and a little man or woman sits on their backs and cracks a whip in their ears. A helicopter passing by is a very minor nuisance by comparison.The countryside is a noisy place on a normal day!
Air Corps pilots are bound by the Rules of the Air,just like any other pilot, except where special provision has been made to allow them to deliberately conduct low-flying training.
regards
Stovepipe

Finally someone talking sense!

jackofalltrades

green gooner wrote:

These helicopters were quite low and I know for a fact they really stress animals (horses and cattles can have heart attacks due to the stress cause by noise etc if they are quite low, which these certainly were).

Several countries actually use helicopter to herd animals, doubt they'd do it if it led to mass heart attacks.

Sterling Archer

Well given that it's 500ft min alt, they probably were flying within the law,

jackofalltrades wrote: »

Several countries actually use helicopter to herd animals, doubt they'd do it if it led to mass heart attacks.

Ya there used alot in Australia... when i started training i was told a generally rule of thumb is avoid horses, (and there is a horse circle near-by Galway airport) everything else is fair game:D

Ave Sodalis

Stovepipe wrote: »

Look, this thing about horses being scared of helicopters is bollox. The wealthy horsey set have plenty of their own helicopters and don't seem to have a problem using them at their own stud farms or at race courses. Race horses also travel in noisy trailers and trucks and are shipped abroad in noisy aircraft at noisy airports.They live on farms where there are noisy tractors and other noisy farming equipment and where people frequently shoot shotguns. When they are raced, they are surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands of noisy people shouting at them and a little man or woman sits on their backs and cracks a whip in their ears. A helicopter passing by is a very minor nuisance by comparison.The countryside is a noisy place on a normal day!
Air Corps pilots are bound by the Rules of the Air,just like any other pilot, except where special provision has been made to allow them to deliberately conduct low-flying training.
regards
Stovepipe

Actually, if they aren't used to helicopters they are very afraid, no matter how busy a place they are stabled. (A huge amount of horses aren't raced) They could be used to machinery and and lorries, but not used to helicopters and spook. Which can prove to be very dangerous if someone is on them. And racing bats don't crack, they are too short and it wouldn't be in their ear anyway. But with regard to having a heartattck, unless the horse has a heart condition, it's unlikely.