{"id":8502,"date":"2011-03-03T20:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T04:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2011-03-03T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T04:56:18","slug":"a-two-way-freeway-in-the-sky-army-copters-frequent-flights-prompt-complaints-over-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8502","title":{"rendered":"“A two-way freeway in the sky”? Army copters’ frequent flights prompt complaints over noise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I mentioned the excessive noise from the constant helicopter flights<\/a> over Honolulu in recent weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 Today’s Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/a> published an article about the flood of complaints over the noise:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I mentioned the excessive noise from the constant helicopter flights over Honolulu in recent weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 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 … <\/p>\n

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