# What are all those choppers doing in my back yard? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-those-choppers-doing-in-my-back-yard/490435 "2009-03-23T05:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-those-choppers-doing-in-my-back-yard/490435/1 "2009-03-23T05:49:30Z")
Seriously, about 30 big black helicopters have flown over my house in the last half hour. And they’re still coming (sporadically) I search in the news, and Google, but I’m not seein nuthin. The Internets have failed me! I turn to dopers. What on earth could be going on? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-those-choppers-doing-in-my-back-yard/490435/2 "2009-03-23T06:07:20Z")
From The Age (13 March): [link](http://www.theage.com.au/national/black-hawks-to-train-over-melbourne-20090313-8xij.html) It looks like it’s been happening around Melbourne for the past few days, and continues until tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-all-those-choppers-doing-in-my-back-yard/490435/3 "2009-03-23T06:33:34Z")
yep, that would be it! It’s taken them a while to get round to the inner city then. Maybe it’s too easy to need practising…