Helicopter Over Massapequa Now (2024)

FAQs

Why is there a helicopter over my house? ›

When a Sheriff's Helicopter is flying over your neighborhood, it is because deputies on the ground are conducting an operation, making a rescue, fighting a fire, searching for a missing person, looking for a suspect or other law enforcement activity.

Massapequa (/ˌmæsəˈpiːkwə/, mass-ə-PEEK-wə) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States.

If it's a news helicopter, its likely doing reporting on traffic or a major event, CalFire is likely working a wire or scouting for threats, commuter helicopters are likely shuttling people, air ambulances are likely clearing a landing zone for patient extraction or transport, and law enforcement are likely conducting ...

On your computer or mobile device, you can use the Flightradar24 website or application to not only see if it's a police helicopter above you but also which agency it belongs to, how long it's been in the air, its flight path, its call sign and other information.

They are used both for observation, and sometimes to track and follow suspicious or criminal activity. For these reasons, you may find a police helicopter circling around your house at night. They can cover a very large area of a neighborhood from 1000 feet above, and circling uses a lot less fuel than hovering.

Lift: As the rotor blade spins, airflow across the bottom of the rotor blade produces lift to counteract gravity. Gravity: Obviously a helicopter does not manipulate gravity, but by exerting just enough lift to counteract gravity, the helicopter can hover at a fixed altitude.

The atmosphere of the Earth rotates with the Earth, so the helicopter hovering over a spot on the Earth will ALSO rotate with the Earth and remain over the same spot.