“A two-way freeway in the sky”? Army copters’ frequent flights prompt complaints over noise

Yesterday, I mentioned the excessive noise from the constant helicopter flights over Honolulu in recent weeks.   Today’s Honolulu Star Advertiser published an article about the flood of complaints over the noise:

Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters have been ferrying troops and supplies back and forth to Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island as Schofield Barracks’ 25th Combat Aviation Brigade trains for a January deployment to southern Afghanistan.

Groups of about four of the choppers regularly fly south from Wheeler Army Airfield and hang a left at H-1, making what is known as the transition through Honolulu Airport’s “Class B” airspace, officials said. They fly the reverse route on the way back.

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Koko Head has a directional beacon and is used for routing, and H-1 becomes a two-way freeway in the sky.

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The frequent Black Hawk flights to Pohakuloa for this training iteration will end in about a week and a half, he said. Training flights for larger CH-47 Chinook helicopters are expected to start around mid-August.