I think having a helipad at your house is just completely unnecessary and annoying, and then of course there is the carbon impact as well. Just because a bunch of rich people have helipads in/near residential areas doesn't mean it is cool for these guys to do it too.
And it obviously doesn't affect me personally either, if anything it is just a reason to be anti AFC and make the looming rivalry more interesting. Wouldn't even think twice about this if they weren't owners of AFC.
And it obviously doesn't affect me personally either, if anything it is just a reason to be anti AFC and make the looming rivalry more interesting. Wouldn't even think twice about this if they weren't owners of AFC.
They are not common here in the UK.
Just down the road from me is Chequers which does not have one although British and US military helicopters fly in there, nor do any of the Rothschild's places around me in Bucks. In British cities you can only operate them from actual CAA recognised heliports or airports meaning that even in London there are just a handful scattered on the Thames river.
In Auckland they should be at Mechanics Bay, North Shore Airport, Whenuapai, Ardmore, Parakai, the hospitals, and Auckland International. Nowhere else.
Keep helicopters at airports where they belong as they are noisy and disturbing to others, and where facilities exist if things go wrong (speaking as a L.A.M.E. who's worked on heli's in NZ and the UK).