Eagle III

The dog starts from her snooze and begins pacing.

Within an instant I can hear the distant turbo-thumping of a helicopter.

Girlfriend is just like Radar O'Reilly from the old M*A*S*H* television series. She can hear the approach of choppers before anybody else can.

The helicopter in the photo above is a recently new Eurocopter EC-135 T2+.

Powered by a pair of Turbomeca 2B1 Arrius engines it is cooking at somewheres around 150 to 170 MPH.

We are directly in the flight path of Eagle III when it's making an air ambulance run from Green Bay to somewhere further north on the peninsula.

While this is not a frequent occurrence - it is certainly regular. And always directly over the top of the house.

The chopper uses a Single Flight Control Display (SFCD), which presents primary flight and navigational data. I wonder if, along with the weather radar, it has the Platz programmed into its route information?

You can read more about it here.