Yeah, perfectly normal to assume low flying helicopters are terrorsts and shoot at them. I wonder what he thought would happen if he had brought it down on someone's house?
It also makes me wonder how many adult beverages the guy had consumed.
Regardless of this sound advice A full 50% of new, civilian, rotary wing pilots end up in minor to major hot water because they won't listen.
Oh yeah, sure.. Osama has waved off of targets like skyscrapers and now prefers to attack garages and gazebos in residential neighborhoods.
Someone get the hook! Quick!
About a month after the 9/11 attacks I was suddenly disturbed by two Low Observable Bell Helicopters zipping over my house 100 feet above the deck.
Both black and moving quick enough that I was unable to read their markings.
We have a Nuclear reactor about ten minutes flight time from my house and we have a grip of Al Fuqra wanna-be Terrorist Brothers about ten minutes flight time in the opposite direction.
I immediately called my friend who is one of the heads of security at the reactor. He urged me to immediately phone both the FAA/FBI....
...come to find out, I have a low altitude military flight path that goes right over my rural house. It had been pretty much unused but when 9/11 occured it was reactivated.
Since then I have had everything from C-130 transports to F-15 fighters zipping overhead.
~grin~
Ya think! What an idiot. He was lucky it wasnt DEA going in after some of his in-bred neighbors on a drug post or he would be a dead idiot and anti-fed contingent here would be blaming the DEA for killing this poor defenseless man in his own yard.
No, wait a minute, he got charged, cops don't get charged.
Never mind.
Gee, no agenda there!
Anti-gunners can't wait to use stories like this against us...
pronounced "SEAN PENN"
And for missing.
Anyone who can't hit a target that big and that low is a damned menace.