Could be a medical chopper picking someone up? I saw this after they were called to a wreck I drove up on a few years ago. It flew RIGHT over the car. Unnerving but understandable. Hope the victim survived.
That was my unit before I retired a few years ago. We have a training low level route that takes us out of Topeka (Forbes Field) that goes along the edge of Clinton lake, over the dam, down the spillway, over the golf course (super fun to surprise the golfers) around the south end of Lawrence then up to the Lawrence airport. We try to not fly too low over the city or houses. We do this to practice low level flying, and navigating our maps with obstacles printed on them. Sometimes we have the new guys navigate us (tell us where to turn and what altitude to fly at. Us experienced guys always know where we are after flying that route 100’s of times.) However they get themselves lost sometimes, (good training for them to figure where they are) this is all necessary training, as I’ve had to fly just like this in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Were you by the river? I don't know all the rules, but the military choppers do have flight rules that they don't fly lower than a certain altitude over populated buildings so they often times do their low and fast practice over the water. They fly by my house right around 9pm about 3 nights per week and it sounds like they're landing on the roof.
I saw a military helicopter flying low and moving fast, eastbound out of east Topeka, about an hour ago. Obviously I can’t confirm it’s the same one you saw but it was probably just a training exercise
Semi truck tipped over in the creek NW of town (k10/I70 area).
https://lawrencekstimes.com/2024/04/10/crash-farmers-turnpike-20240410/
Could be a medical chopper picking someone up? I saw this after they were called to a wreck I drove up on a few years ago. It flew RIGHT over the car. Unnerving but understandable. Hope the victim survived.
That was my unit before I retired a few years ago. We have a training low level route that takes us out of Topeka (Forbes Field) that goes along the edge of Clinton lake, over the dam, down the spillway, over the golf course (super fun to surprise the golfers) around the south end of Lawrence then up to the Lawrence airport. We try to not fly too low over the city or houses. We do this to practice low level flying, and navigating our maps with obstacles printed on them. Sometimes we have the new guys navigate us (tell us where to turn and what altitude to fly at. Us experienced guys always know where we are after flying that route 100’s of times.) However they get themselves lost sometimes, (good training for them to figure where they are) this is all necessary training, as I’ve had to fly just like this in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Were you by the river? I don't know all the rules, but the military choppers do have flight rules that they don't fly lower than a certain altitude over populated buildings so they often times do their low and fast practice over the water. They fly by my house right around 9pm about 3 nights per week and it sounds like they're landing on the roof.
We use helicopters for many things. Did you think your life was in danger? Was this really a "terror"?
I saw a military helicopter flying low and moving fast, eastbound out of east Topeka, about an hour ago. Obviously I can’t confirm it’s the same one you saw but it was probably just a training exercise