Letters to the Editor

General Aviation is starting to come under attack both from noise lobbies and from those who feel that our emissions are affecting the environment. Below is a letter from a reader who wishes to express his feelings on the noise issue. If anyone would like to write in response or with their opinions Helicopter Life would be happy to publish their letters.

This letter was a response to the Evening Standard on Friday 26th May 2006 in which the editor was quoted as saying she did not believe that helicopter movements over London added to the overall noise:

Dear Georgina,

I read to my horror that you consider: "There's really not a noise issue here. Single-engine helicopters can only fly along the Thames. It's the larger helicopters operated by police and corporations that go over central London. I don't think it has added to the noise people on the ground hear."

Don't you? Which bit of cloud-cuckoo land do you inhabit. It is certainly not true that helicopters only fly along the Thames as anyone who lives north of the King's Road can tell you. Every garden in Chelsea is subjected to noise from North/South flying helicopters...