No such luck. All I get are these dumb looking UFO's
Posted on 05/26/2002 11:46:25 PM PDT by VRWC_Member428
More than likely it is just a new pilot out to impress his girlfriend or wife with his new flying skills. Or you may have an attractive neighbor that sunbathes nude by her pool.
As for how to follow up, you have a couple of options. The FAA has a flight service number that operates 24/7, call 1-800-WX-BRIEF. You could also check the flight training firms at the local airport, they usually don't take kindly to students annoying the neighbours.
This thread reminds me again that GA regs in the USA are a bit too loosey-goosey for my liking. As a minimum I think they should require a licence for ultralight pilots.
Go back to watching Oprah and stop all this foolish hysteria.
Year before last I took particular notice of one aircraft who hung around for several autumn days and constantly varied attitude. The only thing I could imagine was that some kind of surveillance was taking place for unknown (to me) reasons.
About a month later I came home and my wife showed me a framed photograph that she had purchased from a fellow who drove up to our rural 10 acre spread. It was an aerial view of our property with the oak trees in autumn splendor. I surmised that this was the aircraft that was buzzing around earlier. He was hustling for a buck.
Leave the ultralights allow. It's the government personnel who are too 'loosey-goosey'.
I went to the local airport and complained that the planes were flying too low over our house. The result, they laughed at me. Told me to call the FAA. Called, it is a joke.
So I fixed their wagon good. Found out I lived near a bird santuary. No one knew. So I called the local citizens group, told them the pilots are buzzing the birds. Called the state wildlife guys as well. Went back to the airport head idiot gave him the rags for bird santuary areas. He turned red as a beet. The regs are now on the airport playpen wall.
Guess what, now their runway expansion is in jeopardy, the bird wackos are all over their a$$. Runway expansion is delayed, looks like years from what I can tell.
Find a bird sanrauary or wildlife area, live next to it. Enviro wackos will keep the planes away. AT last I found a use for the wackos. Now they come out every few days and check the santuary, count the birds.
The planes need to stay further away from the birds than they did people ... go figure. But the planes buzzing the house are gone.
tarpon
Jlogajan, southack:
The plane appears to be a standard 1-engine airplane with fixed landing gear. About the same size as a Cessna, but I can't tell exactly what the make is. The cockpit is fully enclosed.
Draakan,
How many law enforcement planes fly 30 feet above the ground, and fly within 20 feet of the roofs of houses? And how many of them circle several times around the area of ten or so acres? Ever been out to a lake, and have the guys on the jet skis go back and forth in the same spot for about thirty minutes? That's what it's like. And I don't think we're the target of an attack. It's probably just some hot-shot moron. But there is such a thing called practice.
Mensius,
Did he spend several minutes flying 30-300 feet above the ground, making tight turns within about 300 feet of the ground?
Eska,
This isn't a guy flying straight. This is a guy circling around and around, all the while never getting more than about 1000 feet above ground. I'd say average altitude was 100-300 feet.
Hitech rednek,
I did try to read the numbers using binoculars. But the numbers appear to be only 2-3" tall. (unable to read) I couldn't even read the numbers after using a camera with a 22x optical zoom.
Squawk 8888,
There are lots of fields around, but he chooses to fly over houses and other miscellaneous structures rather than fields.
Movemount,
And these planes, do they make it a habit to fly 20 feet above the rooftops? While making several sharp turns?
Like I said, even though it probably isn't terrorist activity, what this pilot is doing is ILLEGAL. He is much closer than 500 feet to people and buildings. And he's nowhere near an airport.
And above all, again I say think of that jet ski that circles around and around while you try to fish. Now think of that being in the air and close to your house. That's not the least bit annoying?
We're also on the flight path to Austin Straubel--and see med evac helicopters and DNR small planes flying over us as well--but it's nothing compared to the air traffic during the EAA convention. Now THAT'S air traffic!
Here's the best part: what potential terrorist TARGET do you live within an hour of? Let the TV Station(s) know that you fear a terrorist attack based on the latest Homeland Defense warning that small aircraft will be used in the attacks, what you feel may be attacked in your area, then hand them a copy of the video.
Wanna bet that gets results?
When I heard that one of the warnings involved scuba divers, I wondered if the terrorists would use carrier pigeons and target bird feeders everywhere? I went out and saw a bird feeder, and there was grain strewn all over. It could have been a squirrel, but I figure that bin Laden and his men tried to attack the feeder! Such skullduggery!
Yep, he lived at the end of a runway of one of the local airports.
No such luck. All I get are these dumb looking UFO's
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