Police Helicopter Ride Along - Day or Night?

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Somehow, I managed to find myself facing a Police Helicopter Patrol ride along

Should I choose a day or night time to do it? I've already seen the city from a chopper in the day, so I'm thinking night. Is night cool in a chopper?

 

[JNDATHP]

Swing shift! I loved that shift.

 

[lulu5kamz]

Was this your daytime ride along...

View attachment Cat Racing A Chopper.mp4

 

[Mike A.]

Night seems like it would be cooler and more going on. They have great night vision here. With all of the IR my house must look like Las Vegas in the distance.

 

[TonyR]

Night seems like it would be cooler and more going on. They have great night vision here. With all of the IR my house must look like Las Vegas in the distance.

+1^^^.
Daytime = safer; see cars, buildings, houses, trees. IOW, Interesting! Ideal for topography buffs.
Nightime = not as safe; action, thrills, entertaining. IOW, Fun! Ideal for gamers.

Just my take. My chopper ride at night was across the bay from San Francisco Airport to Oakland and was a commercial passenger transport so somewhat boring, couldn't see anything but water. Daytime would have been more stuff to see in that instance BUT....it was not a police chopper, so...

 

[mat200]

Somehow, I managed to find myself facing a Police Helicopter Patrol ride along

Should I choose a day or night time to do it? I've already seen the city from a chopper in the day, so I'm thinking night. Is night cool in a chopper?

Night time is when all the fast and furious stuff happens ..

 

[Oneup]

Night time might be the best time. We had a rule when we worked night shift. The rule was, there are no rules! BTW, are you going to sign up?

 

[Broachoski]

Would be cool to check out their night vision toys.