I see them out and around, just not 150 ft over houses. I've seen them 3-500ft agl over populated areas.I understand your doubt, but this is coming from retired AF flight line manager/aircraft mechanic, so he should have a pretty good gauge of what was going on. It was over a populated area (he was close enough to see inside the open door of the chopper), and there have been very similar exercises in other cities that did make it in the news: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012...ary-maneuvers-in-the-skies-above-downtown-la/
I am wondering if anyone actually DID see it.
Im well aware of faa regs, as long as it doesnt cause hazard or damage to person or property. I rarely see any mil stuff doing training maneuvers over peoples houses. Due to noise and other mitigating factors. Your a guard unit? What are you guys flying the alpha models?They were just doing training maneuvers. There are no altitude restrictions on helicopters regardless of population density. Max angle of bank in a UH60 is 60 degrees.
I see them pretty frequently in my travels, fun looking aircraft.I saw a couple of Blackhawks fly over during the daytime within the last few days. I get a kick out of watching military aircraft fly over the house. Probably the most interesting thing I've seen flying over the house was an AWACS doing a mid-flight refueling.