[snooker]

The old farts at the boys 'play airport' do this all the time where I live. Kind of juvenile, but they do it anyway. Since the 9/11 event they seem to enjoy flying closer than allowed just to scare people.

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

[Mean Daddy]

Call the FBI and tell them not to worry, because you think your .30-.06 can reach the plane.

[usconservative]

March right to your local TV station(s) with copies of the video and ask to see the News Producer for the station. Let him/her know point blank you have video of an unmarked plane buzzing homes, that you tried contacting the FBI per our President's instructions to "stay vigilant" and that the FBI has been non-responsive, non-corroborative.

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?

[wattsmag2]

Do you have any nude sunbathing neighbors?

[pttttt]

Two things:

1. Listening to citizen input is not part of the FBI's culture. That's been their problem for years. Heck, in the Hansen case they didn't heed the warning from their own agent.

2. In some parts of the country. they're spraying for gypsy moths, hotdogging right off the treetops. Not necessarily a good idea, especially with terrorist warnings. To paraphrase our leadership, one of these days a low-flying sprayer will crash into a neighborhood.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I heard people in Afghanistan were also experiencing a lot of low flying aircraft buzzing them and dropping stuff on them.

[C210N]

A few days after 9/11, a small aircraft was doing touch-n-goes at my local airport. This was at a time when no General Aviation flights were allowed (I Know, as I'm a pilot - see my username), but commercial ops were in the process of being restored. Not one to have a bad apple spoil it for the rest of us in the barrel, I called this in. I used the FAA (from anywhere in the US: 1-800-Wx-Brief), told them of the info, what I knew, etc. They had me give this info to a supervisor. It wasn't required, but I gave my personal info too. This is a plane that I've seen shortly after, at my local airport... although not recently! There has been no subsequent followup on my side of things, but I'd imagine this guy got into alot of hot water...

[Clive]

Call the Fibbies back.

Tell them you plan to shoot it down and bring them the tail numbers.

Somebody ought to pay attention then.

[Free Vulcan]

I remember I was at my dad's place about two weeks after 911. Some guy in a bi-plane of all things was going round the countryside at real low altitudes and practicing various maneuvers. I told my dad someone was likely to put a couple of holes in him doing what he was doing. Some people just don't think.

[IFly4Him]

From your description I would guess that a flight instructor or student pilot has found a reference point somewhere on or near your property that he/she could use to do ground reference maneuvers - turns around a point, lazy 8s, etc.

Flying 20 ft over a building should be reported though....

[5by5]

Most lay-people underestimate the altitude of aircraft. The more annoyed they are, the worse their estimate. Now, I wasn't there of course, but in the absence of any tangible evidence you come across as someone with a bad case of "not in my back yard" attempting to turn your annoyance into a national security issue. Sorry, but that's what it looks like to me. I'm guessing the FBI feels the same.

Just to keep things in perspective, that annoying punk flying "dangerously" today may very well be putting his life on the line in an F-16 to protect you tomorrow.

Sure I'm speculating, but then, so are you.

[ladyinred]

Really strange you should ask this. This very thing did happen over my house about a week ago. I was really getting frightened, wondering what was going on with this small plane, including wondering if it were about to crash.
It just kept circling really low, and this happened over and over again.
This was before the warning about small aircraft, and when I heard that, I remembered that airplane!