WELCOME
Thank you for visiting this site.
People are frustrated with the amount of low air traffic we put up with in Los Angeles, and rightly so. This city has a real problem with beyond excessive low air traffic.
In the three years I've been counting and documenting, the majority of the harassment come from Los Angeles Police Department. The majority of the flights they assault our neighborhoods with are a waste of your tax dollars and are a perpetuation of the unconstitutional police state.
Los Angeles Police Department is the only police department in the country to have 18+ helicopters and one airplane.
Throughout this exercise I have had anonymous pilots, officers, and organizations contact me to share unpublished facts they find revolting to the LAPD's fleet and operations. An anon tip has quoted the daily cost of maintenance, per aircraft that's lifted off the ground is $4,000. This is just maintaining the aircraft. This does not include fuel or crew. I see 200 LAPD flights, in my neighborhood, per day.
This is YOURS and MY money we're talking about here, on top of true police on innocent civilian abuse...
THIS LOG/BLOG HAS BEEN CREATED TO DOCUMENT:
1. Countless videos recorded of low flights over my community, and everywhere in L.A., perpetrated by the DOJ & City of L.A., on a regular basis.
2. Document the research and governing policy of flying low over residential housing. And the health effects of exposure to constant high level noise.
3. The lack of response, passing off responsibility, and some times LIES of the city and the L.A. FAA regional office regarding citizen's low flight complaints.
4. Document random daily samples, "snapshots," of total flight path averages.
5. As a means to correspond more, beyond the Helicopter Log twitter account (which I have rested for now), with the communities who are all under siege in Los Angeles with the ultimate goal of fighting disrespectful public servants together.
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LEGISLATION OF INTEREST:
1. H.R. 3547 Passed. More info on the
"Bills to Watch" page…
2. Help support H.R. 2677 against low air traffic - http://pvox.co/SMf2Tv
3. Check out the other bills to watch ... and there's more than this too... "Bills to Watch"
4. Residents have now taken to petitioning for federal regulation since the local leaders are thumbing their noses at state law.
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ACTIONS YOU SHOULD TAKE:
I know often we feel helpless. Like we're fighting an uphill battle but know this is a battle we can win. You do deserve to be treated better by the City of Los Angeles. The only way this can happen is to fight with us! The more vocally angry people who are willing to call and write, and publish - the better. You are not a doormat to indignant public servants.
1. Call the L.A. FAA and tell them exactly what you think of their treatment of your community. The old manager, David Binder was very unresponsive. He is no longer manager. Richard Falcon took his place and was "more responsive." Then Reid Walburg became manager and is gone. Now John Blanco is manager. FAA are notorious for not doing their job on our behalf and ignoring us so let that knowledge fuel you and know we have state Representatives who are watching the FAA's ignoring of the problem:
John Blanco, Manager -
L.A. Flight Standards Dist Office -
310-725-6601
2. Submit your own video, records, news stories, documents ect ...
http://lahelicopterlog.tumblr.com/submit
OR
Start your own public log. The more public outrage and organization, the better!
3. Write, tweet, and call your Councilman, the Mayor, the FAA, your Representative, your Congressman, the Attorney Gen, and the Governor about the unconstitutionality and unhealthiness of invasive low air traffic in your home. Let them know how bad it is as much as you can. Then submit it, and any reaction, or none gotten here! ;)
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Lastly - PLEASE NOTE the helipads that surround my home came AFTER this home was built. Like any other citizen and community, L.A.'s FAA and city leaders do not CARE about their residents, and that is the bottom line. That is why this site even exists... because there's a 40 year old problem that tax paid officials are intentionally ignoring. But it doesn't matter if they care because what they're up to isn't constitutional and it doesn't fit standard FAA guidelines.
It's time to organize, oust some butts from office, and make this city the home we all deserve.
IMPORTANT LINKS ------
FAA’s Low Aircraft “Complaint System” Count is Highly Inaccurate
My records alone show at least 30 complaints a week for these areas, per week. WTF is the FAA doing with all the data they’re receiving? They’re clearly not publishing it.
After decades of residents asking for help and relief from flat out abusive helicopter traffic, Congressman Adam Schiff FINALLY passes a bill (hr3547) in 2014 that calls for regulation. Los Angelinos have finally won legislation after the vulture helicopter industry and complacent FAA ignored residents demands on relief for decades. After passing the bill Rep Schiff told the FAA he will give them time to develop a map for regulation. It’s come to the end of that grace period and this is the map the FAA has provided.
It’s clear there are people in that tax paid regulatory office that need to find themselves a tent and some cardboard and go live in Skid Row after they get fired from jobs they don’t deserve. It’s time to clean house and fire as many people in the FAA as it takes to get the LAFSDO working without being fat and corrupt.
I hate to say it but maybe the schiester Ronald Reagan was right. The regulatory boards need housecleaning every now and then.
Despite the fact that a Congressman has developed a law and had it passed about low air traffic in Los Angeles, this is what the FAA deems OK for Los Angeles residents to put up with on a Sunday night at 9pm.
After taking down webtracker for 7-days just for the DTLA and Central L.A. area, the FAA put it back up. And it didn’t go down without intense suspicion and complaint. A lot of activists were pissed off, to put it honestly. The FAA ignores the law of HR3547 to regulate traffic, they tell the city they’ll at least provide a monitoring site, and they try to piss out on that promise? Not on my tax dollar.
ANYWAY. Today is the first day webtracker is back up and look at all these cowards destroying DTLA before 9am. They all know they’re doing wrong, otherwise they’d grow a pair and put their N tail numbers up.
Is the FAA Helping LAPD and Tour/Film Helicopters Vanish From Radar Over High “Low-Air-Traffic” Neighborhoods?
This is the third day DTLA has been put into a black hole of information from the radar. Who made the call?
It’s 12:01PM and another LAPD helicopter makes three loud and low passovers, overhead. He was just here two-hours ago. The neighborhood is bright and peaceful. People are going about their Saturdays. There’s no calls for the police officers on the radios yet LAPD exhibit this behavior pretty much every single hour throughout the day and night, all the time. They’re so notorious in their offensive flying they’ve actually been ordered by Congressman Adam Schiff to stop the abusive flights.
To be clear - LAPD gets 1 billion dollars every year. They own more helicopters than any police department in the country. The mayor keeps complaining how the city has no money for the homeless or schools but LAPD gets 1 billion dollars annually that pays for keeping 20 helicopters over residential neighborhoods who never called for them. At best, LAPD’s constant warrantless air searches and mistreatment of Los Angeles neighborhoods is highly unconstitutional. At worst - LAPD are draining a substantial amount of money the city could use on better goals than shooting weaponless people dead and behaving like bullies in the air.
Back to the recent LAPD flyover. We just had a cop overhead two-hours ago and now he’s back. I’m sure it’s the same cop but the police have taken to hiding their N tail numbers from the radar since LA Weekly and LA Times published a story telling Angelinos how to look them up via radar and complain. A year ago I could tell you if it was the same cop. Now all I can do is guess. From my own three-years of research into LAPD Air Division’s behavior, I am sure it’s the same cop.
On a sideline, throughout the rumor mill some of my fellow LAPD helicopter watchers - (through their own connections) - are suspicious some of the more aggressive LAPD helicopter pilots are on meth or cocaine. I wouldn’t be shocked if the more savage and malicious pilots were tweaking. Hearsay or not - their exhibited behavior leaves the theory plausible.
So the LAPD pilot overhead is hiding on radar but he’s definitely overhead. He's very low, very loud, and shaking the windows and floors of this DTLA apartment. And again, checking the scanners shows his mission was very pointless. All this is normal. What isn’t normal is the pilot is clearly hiding from radar in a very intentional way.
This is the third day LAPD and even tour/film copters are intentionally disappearing from radar over DTLA. For the first time ever, after watching the Los Angeles radar for two-years, and studying L.A.’s low-air-traffic problem for three-years, I am seeing helicopter pilots intentionally hiding over the DTLA area. This intentional behavior has to be a response to the complaints of their abusive flights over DTLA. The complaints from DTLA are a lot more aggressive than elsewhere in the city due to yours truly. But I am only reiterating what everyone in this city is thinking. As of recent low-air-traffic pilots specifically hide over this area and show up in mid-city and elsewhere. And no, altitude has nothing to do with this. If you look at other posts on this blog you’ll see them flying as low as 50 feet overhead on the radar. No one accidentally “drops off radar.”
Over the years LAPD and tour/film pilots took to hiding their tail numbers. They know the public are watching them and disapprove of their abusive treatment of Los Angeles so they hide who they are so it’s harder to complain about them. As of three days ago they're completely ghosting from the radar.
Something is going on.
What I don't know, and aim to find out, is if these pilots are being aided by the local FSDO/FAA to intentionally hide off radar. The FAA has been commanded by law to regulate low-air-traffic in Los Angeles County. They have ignored the law since it was established in January 2014. The have tried to act like they were working on the problem by telling the newspapers to publish the radar reporting website a year ago. The media and FAA acted like the site was newly implemented for the public to access. It was not new. The story was a ruse.
So are pilots hiding from radar with the help of a do-nothing FAA?
I would say yes and prove me wrong by actually doing what the law tells you to do, FAA.
When taxpayers tell the FAA and pilots to stop abusing the air above their neighborhoods - intentionally hiding your tail number and ghosting yourself off the radar is not the way to respond to the calls to end abuse. Regulation and better treatment of the neighborhood's on the FAA, LAPD, and tour/film pilot's part is the proper response.
A dbag private jet tightly circling DTLA at a very very low level. It’s actually flying lower than the tallest building in DTLA. U.S. Bank is 1,018 ft tall. This piece of shit is flying at 1,000 ft. Yes you definitely heard him abuse the are very hard. And ask the FAA how the fuck an airplane was allowed to do this... you won’t hear back as the top brass collects their paycheck and ignores Congressman’s HR3547.
Corruption. Hayseeds from Omaha, Nebraska - Sound Trak, Inc.
A nooner lunch break to abuse DTLA for the lulz brought to you by the one and only “2010 Leasing Group” - Star Helicopters. They always rent to the whitest male tourists, ever. Enjoy the shattered peace!
Whose that asshole flying low and rotor chopping homes in downtown LA? It’s Wells Fargo and their white privilege. Bankers being bitches - as per usual.
This is a long waited update. I have been collecting data the whole time. I will update the data. I am coming to a close of data collection though and moving into sending it to the right authority. It’s probably 50 gigs of data, though - and I have other jobs so this is a slowing down on posts. I am always watching, though.
Self incriminating by the very own LAPD of using militarization tactics on residential. Added bonus of rank and file shills begging to sign up for the constitutional desecration.
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