Anonymous wrote:I live out all the way in Rockville. During Trump's first term, I definitely heard more low flying helicopters over Rockville. Towards the end of his term, one flew so low over my neighborhood at night, I thought it was going to crash.

The low flying helicopters over Rockville seemed to stop during Biden's term.

But then last week, I heard a few low flying helicopters over Rockville again. Who knows how the rest of the term will play out.

Anonymous wrote:A couple of actual facts:

-One of the runways is the busiest runway in the U.S. with 800 landings each day.

- The helicopter corridor is 200ft. This helo was flying at 350ft when it hit the passenger plane.

- The helicopter likely didn’t see the plane as the plane was at the helo’s 5 o’clock. Basically the same as a blind spot when driving a car.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone keep saying this (and other) helicopters come “out of Langley”? Do they mean “CIA Headquarters”?

This confuses me, because I live very, very close to CIA, and almost never see or hear helicopters on the obvious approach/departure paths from the facility. Not only that, but if you look a Google satellite view, there isn’t even a proper helipad there at all. Yes, you can land a chopper in a parking lot, but if there were as many helicopters coming and going from there as you people are implying, there would be a proper helipad, with markings, lights, wind sock and probably a small ramp area with refueling and additional area for several aircraft.

The only helicopter you see on the satellite photos of CIA is the retired Marine One chopper that’s displayed as part of an outdoor lunch spot.

I don’t think a lot of you know what you’re talking about.

The helicopter came from Fort Belvoir. It was on a routine training and evaluation mission but its general regular mission is transporting Government VIPs around town to avoid traffic.

It wasn't on a 'routine' training mission. They were training for night vision flying.

The story should be that the military unnecessarily endangers the public by doing technical training in a populated area along a landing path. They have huge reservations of land and air that no one else is allowed to go through.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone keep saying this (and other) helicopters come “out of Langley”? Do they mean “CIA Headquarters”?

This confuses me, because I live very, very close to CIA, and almost never see or hear helicopters on the obvious approach/departure paths from the facility. Not only that, but if you look a Google satellite view, there isn’t even a proper helipad there at all. Yes, you can land a chopper in a parking lot, but if there were as many helicopters coming and going from there as you people are implying, there would be a proper helipad, with markings, lights, wind sock and probably a small ramp area with refueling and additional area for several aircraft.

The only helicopter you see on the satellite photos of CIA is the retired Marine One chopper that’s displayed as part of an outdoor lunch spot.

I don’t think a lot of you know what you’re talking about.

The helicopter came from Fort Belvoir. It was on a routine training and evaluation mission but its general regular mission is transporting Government VIPs around town to avoid traffic.

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone keep saying this (and other) helicopters come “out of Langley”? Do they mean “CIA Headquarters”?

This confuses me, because I live very, very close to CIA, and almost never see or hear helicopters on the obvious approach/departure paths from the facility. Not only that, but if you look a Google satellite view, there isn’t even a proper helipad there at all. Yes, you can land a chopper in a parking lot, but if there were as many helicopters coming and going from there as you people are implying, there would be a proper helipad, with markings, lights, wind sock and probably a small ramp area with refueling and additional area for several aircraft.

The only helicopter you see on the satellite photos of CIA is the retired Marine One chopper that’s displayed as part of an outdoor lunch spot.

I don’t think a lot of you know what you’re talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t Bowser ban these flights?

Why would you think the DC mayor has jurisdiction over a Virginia airport and virginia military bases?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone keep saying this (and other) helicopters come “out of Langley”? Do they mean “CIA Headquarters”?

This confuses me, because I live very, very close to CIA, and almost never see or hear helicopters on the obvious approach/departure paths from the facility. Not only that, but if you look a Google satellite view, there isn’t even a proper helipad there at all. Yes, you can land a chopper in a parking lot, but if there were as many helicopters coming and going from there as you people are implying, there would be a proper helipad, with markings, lights, wind sock and probably a small ramp area with refueling and additional area for several aircraft.

The only helicopter you see on the satellite photos of CIA is the retired Marine One chopper that’s displayed as part of an outdoor lunch spot.

I don’t think a lot of you know what you’re talking about.

The helicopter came from Fort Belvoir. It was on a routine training and evaluation mission but its general regular mission is transporting Government VIPs around town to avoid traffic.

Yes, I understand that. But why do people here keep saying that helicopters are regularly landing and taking off from “Langley”?

Are they trying to sound like insiders or something? Because it makes them sound dumb to everyone who knows anything about CIA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone keep saying this (and other) helicopters come “out of Langley”? Do they mean “CIA Headquarters”?

This confuses me, because I live very, very close to CIA, and almost never see or hear helicopters on the obvious approach/departure paths from the facility. Not only that, but if you look a Google satellite view, there isn’t even a proper helipad there at all. Yes, you can land a chopper in a parking lot, but if there were as many helicopters coming and going from there as you people are implying, there would be a proper helipad, with markings, lights, wind sock and probably a small ramp area with refueling and additional area for several aircraft.

The only helicopter you see on the satellite photos of CIA is the retired Marine One chopper that’s displayed as part of an outdoor lunch spot.

I don’t think a lot of you know what you’re talking about.

The helicopter came from Fort Belvoir. It was on a routine training and evaluation mission but its general regular mission is transporting Government VIPs around town to avoid traffic.

Yes, I understand that. But why do people here keep saying that helicopters are regularly landing and taking off from “Langley”?

Are they trying to sound like insiders or something? Because it makes them sound dumb to everyone who knows anything about CIA.

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Anonymous wrote:Who are all these VIPs? How many are they? Who gets help service? Are they US officials?

Generals, Congressmen and senior political appointees. The amount grows every year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone keep saying this (and other) helicopters come “out of Langley”? Do they mean “CIA Headquarters”?

This confuses me, because I live very, very close to CIA, and almost never see or hear helicopters on the obvious approach/departure paths from the facility. Not only that, but if you look a Google satellite view, there isn’t even a proper helipad there at all. Yes, you can land a chopper in a parking lot, but if there were as many helicopters coming and going from there as you people are implying, there would be a proper helipad, with markings, lights, wind sock and probably a small ramp area with refueling and additional area for several aircraft.

The only helicopter you see on the satellite photos of CIA is the retired Marine One chopper that’s displayed as part of an outdoor lunch spot.

I don’t think a lot of you know what you’re talking about.

The helicopter came from Fort Belvoir. It was on a routine training and evaluation mission but its general regular mission is transporting Government VIPs around town to avoid traffic.

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone keep saying this (and other) helicopters come “out of Langley”? Do they mean “CIA Headquarters”?

This confuses me, because I live very, very close to CIA, and almost never see or hear helicopters on the obvious approach/departure paths from the facility. Not only that, but if you look a Google satellite view, there isn’t even a proper helipad there at all. Yes, you can land a chopper in a parking lot, but if there were as many helicopters coming and going from there as you people are implying, there would be a proper helipad, with markings, lights, wind sock and probably a small ramp area with refueling and additional area for several aircraft.

The only helicopter you see on the satellite photos of CIA is the retired Marine One chopper that’s displayed as part of an outdoor lunch spot.

I don’t think a lot of you know what you’re talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:I live out all the way in Rockville. During Trump's first term, I definitely heard more low flying helicopters over Rockville. Towards the end of his term, one flew so low over my neighborhood at night, I thought it was going to crash.

The low flying helicopters over Rockville seemed to stop during Biden's term.

But then last week, I heard a few low flying helicopters over Rockville again. Who knows how the rest of the term will play out.

Trump was going to a doctor out there a lot, I remember. Probably that again. In forty more years we'll find out about what the illness was.