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Originally Posted by Philip Argy
Buzzing Drummoyne at 1 am at a low level is not too impressive - I don't see why waking everyone up at that hour is necessary for training, and they seem to be hovering around Cockatoo Island and creating quite a racket there too.
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Pffft, you just got a flyby. Over here in Ryde/Meadowbank we got them drawing one big raised middle finger in the sky, hanging around like a bad smell, going around and around and around. The activity around 9pm I have no issue with, but the activity up until 12:50am was completely and utterly ridiculous. After they left here, Webtrak indicates they hung around B@lls Head for some time, albeit it was struggling to continue tracking them at that time, before they finally headed back to Randwick.
Those things are loud, especially when they echo around the valley here and all the unit blocks. There were four of them, three with nil lights, the last with the strobe.
Whoever made that decision needs a very sharp reminder that there are people down here and you don't do your public relations much good with this kind of nonsense.
There was some commentary on twitter, notably:
http://twitter.com/alyshajane
http://twitter.com/corinoco
http://twitter.com/v_benson
http://twitter.com/margey_pargey
This exercise was NOT in accordance with the story they put out which was picked up by AAP and republished in much online media:
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news...129-18ddj.html
I'm sorry, but unless there was an active threat, that was completely and utterly inappropriate.