Timeline for Are there any reported cases of noise from helicopters causing damage to property?
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | David Richerby | Er, delete "almost" from my previous comment. I tried to edit from "almost certainly wouldn't" to "wouldn't" and failed. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 5:05 | comment | added | jwenting | @JJJ doesn't matter whether they admit guilt or not. The Dutch press, environmentalists, and other pressure groups would call it just that, admission of guilt, and relentlessly campaign to get the helicopters grounded. That's how it works in the Netherlands. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 5:02 | comment | added | JJJ | Not necessarily. They could settle out of court without admitting guilt. Even if they admitted guilt or were proved to cause the damage, I highly doubt that would be enough for the base (or their operations) to move. By the proportionality principle I think (though IANAL) that the base and its operations trumps minor inconvenience to the public. Compare it to people's houses being demolished to make way for large infrastructure projects. They can protest, but they will get a (large) settlement at best. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 4:49 | comment | added | jwenting | @JJJ indeed. If they just replaced all damaged solar panels they'd effectively admit they caused the damage, leading to lawsuits demanding the helicopters be banned from flying, which is the real reason for the complaints in the first place, cause the helicopters to go away. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:45 | vote | accept | JJJ | ||
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:45 | comment | added | JJJ | @jean even if these claims were found to be true, I wouldn't expect the military base to move. Instead, they might (after lengthy court battles) compensate victims insofar that they would move away. Or they could settle out of court with individual victims so as to avoid legal precedent. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:39 | comment | added | David Richerby | @stripybadger "How would you prove that damage was done by a helicopter?" You almost wouldn't. You'd show that the damage was consistent with damage that you've shown was created by helicopters under test conditions, and demonstrate that there were helicopters in the area at roughly the time when the actual damage occurred. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:35 | comment | added | jean | And it's probably cheaper to replace a few solar panels than make a thorough test flying over a hundred times in possible unconclusive controlled test, also there's all the point in selling a image of being caring and friendly | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 11:00 | comment | added | jwenting | @stripybadger apart from flying a helicopter over a known good sample under controlled conditions using well described flight profiles until something happens, yeah. And even then you can't prove no damage could ever happen if only a different flight profile or number of exposures had been used. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 9:51 | comment | added | stripybadger | So, perhaps the more interesting question is how would you prove that damage was done by a helicopter, but I suspect that's an impossible question. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 8:51 | history | answered | jwenting | CC BY-SA 4.0 |