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What a fright....
« on: 31 July 2012, 15:08:43 »

I'm sitting on my couch, there's houses opposite and  THIS, or something very similar, just flew over the rooftops of the house directly opposite me. I swear it couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred feet off the ground! What a bloody fright  I got! The noise was unbelievable, but strangely I didn't hear anything until it took up my whole window!
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #1 on: 31 July 2012, 15:12:32 »

Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #2 on: 31 July 2012, 15:14:12 »

Probably borrowed by Nige for his holidays  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #3 on: 31 July 2012, 15:16:02 »

Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?


Hercules  :y
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #4 on: 31 July 2012, 15:18:39 »

Thanks tiger :y. Surely it can't be normal for it to be at that height though? I live nowhere near an airfield so not as if it was coming in to land.
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« Reply #5 on: 31 July 2012, 15:50:50 »

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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #6 on: 31 July 2012, 16:15:40 »

That's the bugger! Only wish I had seen it for longer, or better still managed to get a pic.
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« Reply #7 on: 31 July 2012, 16:15:55 »

Thanks tiger :y. Surely it can't be normal for it to be at that height though? I live nowhere near an airfield so not as if it was coming in to land.


Can be if they are on a low level navigation training flight.
Iirc, the normal lower limit is 500 feet but lets just say they can and do go quite a bit lower  :-X :-X
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #8 on: 31 July 2012, 16:27:15 »

They were definatly lower than 500ft, I could see the pickle in the pilots sandwich ;D.
Hard to judge but I reckon they must've been at the VERY most 300 ft.
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #9 on: 31 July 2012, 16:50:08 »

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Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft shall not be flown closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure.

Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft flying over a congested area of a city town or settlement shall not fly below a height of 1,000 feet above the highest fixed obstacle within a horizontal radius of 600 metres of the aircraft.

An aircraft flying over a congested area of a city, town or settlement shall not fly below such height as would permit the aircraft to land clear of the congested area in the event of a power unit failure.

Exemptions exist for taking off and landing in accordance with normal aviation practice, display flying, etc.

They might have the "written permission of the CAA", of course. ;)
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #10 on: 31 July 2012, 16:56:36 »

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Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft shall not be flown closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure.

Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft flying over a congested area of a city town or settlement shall not fly below a height of 1,000 feet above the highest fixed obstacle within a horizontal radius of 600 metres of the aircraft.

An aircraft flying over a congested area of a city, town or settlement shall not fly below such height as would permit the aircraft to land clear of the congested area in the event of a power unit failure.

Exemptions exist for taking off and landing in accordance with normal aviation practice, display flying, etc.

They might have the "written permission of the CAA", of course. ;)



Well that would have had 99% of the airforce grounded in my day  ;D ;D

Remember been laid sunbathing on top of a sanger during a exercise when a Victor tanker flew between 2 of the hangers at no more then 100 feet  :o
Bloody show off's these jockeys  ::) :D
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« Reply #11 on: 31 July 2012, 17:01:31 »

Well that would have had 99% of the airforce grounded in my day  ;D ;D

Hence I think there might be a letter from the CAA somewhere saying something along the lines of "If you can't be good, FFS be careful". ;)
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« Reply #12 on: 31 July 2012, 17:08:16 »

Well that would have had 99% of the airforce grounded in my day  ;D ;D

Hence I think there might be a letter from the CAA somewhere saying something along the lines of "If you can't be good, FFS be careful". ;)
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 ;D ;D ;D

Lightning pilot been carefull  ;D ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUY0ut6gOxY&feature=player_embedded
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #13 on: 31 July 2012, 18:00:04 »

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Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft shall not be flown closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle or structure.

Except with the written permission of the CAA, an aircraft flying over a congested area of a city town or settlement shall not fly below a height of 1,000 feet above the highest fixed obstacle within a horizontal radius of 600 metres of the aircraft.

An aircraft flying over a congested area of a city, town or settlement shall not fly below such height as would permit the aircraft to land clear of the congested area in the event of a power unit failure.

Exemptions exist for taking off and landing in accordance with normal aviation practice, display flying, etc.

They might have the "written permission of the CAA", of course. ;)


dont the military have their own airspace and whoe betide anyone who strays into it...... :y

i do remeber a engineer who mounted a ally tower in the gates of an private american school on greenham common...well it must have been all of 15 mins and he was ordered down at gun point and they did try to bring a court case against him for invading miltary air space...never got to court as the tower did'nt fly and was only 9 ft tall...but it did show up on their radar :y
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Re: What a fright....
« Reply #14 on: 31 July 2012, 18:37:21 »

Looking at the photo I've posted, the plane couldn't have been much higher than this shot. Never seen anything as huge so low. Is there any way to find out what it was and where it was heading?

Didn't you know that Cameron has decided to invade Scotland? We'll be sending up our tank when it's fixed. :-X
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