It seems if you travel by helicopter in Auckland you may not want to be seen speaking about your views on private landing pads in the suburbs in case you ever need to land on one.
Spy sent out a friendly "for" or "against" question to more than a dozen helicopter users, regarding the proposed helicopter private landing builds in Sarsfield St, Herne Bay and Paritai Drive, Ōrākei.
The moot: whether they thought people should live and let live in the hood or whether it was not within the reasonable expectations of neighbourly behaviour and community spirit to oppose helicopter landings in your neighbourhood.
Uncharacteristically, nearly all recipients of Spy's email remained silent.
The proposed private landings creating headlines are Tappenden Holdings' property on Paritai Drive, controlled by a group of wealthy businessmen including Trevor and Dean Farmer, George France, Greg Horton and Dean Hamilton and the now infamous case of Briscoe's owner Rod Duke and the ongoing saga of his private helipad creation in Sarsfield St. Last week former Real Housewife of Auckland Louise Wallace, came out swinging against her neighbour's chopper-landing plans on a Paritai Drive property: "Do you want a helicopter falling out of the sky in a massive fireball on your house, kids and pets?" she wrote on Twitter.