Helicopters?
You ain't seen helicopters till you have lived in BC!
We enjoy daily no(i)sy fly overs at low altitudes all summer to early fall starting at 7am and running till late at night. They used to start earlier until all the complaints to Department of Transport sunk in.
The craziest thing I ever witnessed was an RCMP helicopter hovering (in insanely high winds) less than 50 feet above ground right over a residential area. The wind was so strong that it was struggling to stay 'in position'. It was the most wreckless aviation stunt I have ever seen.
After watching this thing tipping from side to side and clearly having difficult maintaining stability for minutes, it became apparent that there was a thick cable from the helicopter down to the ground.
After a while, it started climbing (still swinging all over the place) and as it cleared the trees, it became apparent that it was pulling up a huge bundle of packages in what looked like a big cargo net. The mystery was over.
They must have found some packages that Santa dropped on his last trip over the area.
In any case, any civillian caught pulling a stunt like that in a helicopter would have lost their license immediately.
Our latest joy is the added patrols of US/US funded black helicopters along our border and way into our mainland (much further than one would imagine) for apparently "US Border Patrols" (according to Victoria Times Colonist).
I say, we pitch in and donate a compass and map to help them save on fuel.
-Dino