Helicopters

[TheTravellers]

For those that live in the NW 10rd - NW 50th, I-44 - I-235 area, does the helicopter traffic all day (from 6 AM to midnight or later) bother you? It seems like it's gone nuts in the past few months - I work from home some days and there are literally a dozen flights over/extremely near our house at NW 36th/May some days (one Sat night, there were 6 of them in 4 hours), sometimes so low it almost rattles the windows. I feel sorry for the folks that live by the Fairgrounds because some news chopper seems to be hovering over the I-44/I-40 interchange every few weeks early in the morning.

What is the deal with all of it? How many choppers do the police have (I assume most, if not all, of the nighttime traffic is theirs)? Is there that much crime that needs them? Do all the TV stations have them? How many of them are medevac flights? Just curious, because it's not just regular outside noise that can be blocked out by louder music or TV volume, and it seems like it's gotten worse recently (used to be we heard a few flights every day or two when we moved here, but 8 years later, it's almost every couple of hours some days).

[eeyore]

I'm at NW 57th and May and when they have a low ceiling my windows definitely rattle. Usually when I look, they are air-ambulance types.

[Bits_Of_Real_Panther]

I hear one now in midtown

Maybe uber helicopter is testing the market for uber eats delivery via copter ��

[aDark]

I live in the neighborhood north of OU Medical Center. The AirEvac choppers fly over so regularly that I hardly notice them anymore. When guests are over they are frequently shocked when one buzzes by. "This is what I imagine it sounded like in Vietnam!" - my dad.

[TheTravellers]

I'm at NW 57th and May and when they have a low ceiling my windows definitely rattle. Usually when I look, they are air-ambulance types.

So how do you tell what kind it is? I think News9 has a red one, guessing the medical ones are red too, police are black, ...?

[LakeEffect]

So how do you tell what kind it is? I think News9 has a red one, guessing the medical ones are red too, police are black, ...?

KOCO's is blue and yellow. KFOR is white w/ blue lettering. News9 is red and black. OKCPD is black and grey. Many medical are combinations of blue, white, and red. A couple are red and black.

Use a flight tracker to see what's above. A really good one for seeing all data (including many military flights) is here: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

[TheTravellers]

KOCO's is blue and yellow. KFOR is white w/ blue lettering. News9 is red and black. OKCPD is black and grey. Many medical are combinations of blue, white, and red. A couple are red and black.

Use a flight tracker to see what's above. A really good one for seeing all data (including many military flights) is here: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

Ah, GTK, thx, didn't figure the police flights (which I think most of the ones over me are) would be tracked since they're probably fairly random flight paths, but I guess all of them do have to be tracked...

[gjl]

No annoying ads. https://www.flightradar24.com/35.47,-97.64/10

[Rover]

"This is what I imagine it sounded like in Vietnam!"

Uhh.... NO

[Brett]

I live in the geographic sector described. I do not have an issue with helicopters that happen to shake my house because I know that they are on a mission and it is their job. I used to work with a former OKCPD helicopter pilot and he said that they will perform two aerial patrols at night with one being somewhere before 2:00am and a second one after 2:00am.

What annoys me are the muscle cars and crotch rocket motorcycles that all have loud aftermarket exhausts and the idiots who own them who speed up and down NW Expressway and also on I-44 or constantly rev their engines. i believe that it comes from a need for attention even though we all know that they are insecure men (and maybe women). Law enforcement make no effort to set up speed traps at night to catch them.