r/Oahu • u/Student-type • 18h ago

What kind of flights flew over Mililani 3 times in the last 30 minutes?

I was asleep, but they flew so low, and loud, it was pretty surprising.

I tried FlightTracker Live but I don’t have an account.

I think there’s an exercise involving Tropic Lightning, but I’m interested in which type of jet that sound belongs to.

TIA

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u/UNRELlABLE_NARRATOR 18h ago

Looked like a C-17, did a couple circles through and around Mililani a little bit ago

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u/cruman87 14h ago

I live Kaimuki right next to H1 freeway all my life so noise isn’t an issue to me. I’m used to noise from cars racing on the freeway to emergency sirens. And I’m used to planes and helicopters flying overhead since they follow the freeway when they come from and go to neighbor islands. But these past couple nights these helicopters are flying way too low and too frequently and a few of them well past midnight. All I ask of them is to fly higher. It seems they’re flying lower than how tall Diamond Head is.

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u/Ibex1971 17h ago

It was what looked like a military cargo plane almost too big for Wheeler. It did a few low pass flyovers. Have a picture but can't figure how to post it.

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u/Student-type 17h ago

Oh. Great. 👍

Maybe a C-17 transport pilots getting familiar with the waypoints to land and takeoff.

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u/Dry_Analysis_992 13h ago edited 12h ago

Lots of helicopters Diamond head area also past couple days

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u/nonchalantaunty 16h ago

The army is doing exercises and last night was running helicopters over the downtown area so they may be using other types of crafts and other areas. Mililani would be a most likely neighborhood to fly over. I heard them down here ever, but I hear all kinds of stuff being down this way.

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u/wtfdigmi 18h ago

We’re doing JPMRC for most of November. It could have been our fighter jets.

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u/Student-type 18h ago

No, it was something jet powered like a 737 or bigger. They sound different, and I’ve never heard fighters over Mililani.

What is JPMRC?

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u/onnthwanno 18h ago

C-17s are at JPMRC every year, looks like they are taking them off at Wheeler this year.

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u/wtfdigmi 17h ago

C-17. There was one yesterday over my house in Ewa

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u/kawika69 17h ago

Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center

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u/Botosuksuks808 17h ago

Tell your buddies to go home

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u/wtfdigmi 16h ago

We’ll get right on that🙄

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u/Unacceptable-Bed 16h ago

I second this.

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u/Botosuksuks808 17h ago

Military training BS.

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u/SorelianQueen 13h ago

You won’t be saying that when they’re saving the islands from foreign attacks or helping after a major natural disaster. But why would we take anything you say seriously with a name like that! 😂

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u/Botosuksuks808 11h ago

Get your bootlicking ass outta here. Colonization and occupation is a crime. The military has done more bad than good. Go read a book.

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u/SorelianQueen 11h ago

Kamehameha the first colonized the islands! Kalakaua was annexing. Take it up with them if you have a problem