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Originally Posted by wejones
You don't live under a MOA (military training route) do you? I get planes flying over me all the time, at real low altitude, sometimes down to tree-top level. One time a few F-16s flew over. I listen to a scanner, so I know when they are coming, so I generally go up to the top of a nearby hill, and take pictures of them. I have a long 500mm lens, and so I'm out their aiming the big camera at them, still listening on my scanner. Well shortly after they flew over, I hear them come up on the radio and tell ATC that "they were going to go back and look for him"! A minute or two later, they came back and again flew low over my house. I figured that they got annoyed that someone was aiming something at them, and were trying to find me. Had me a bit nervous, expecting to see some of those black helicopters come looking for me!
Turned out, that later that afternoon, I saw on the evening news that ATC had called them shortly after they went over my house, and told them that they had an unidentified plane that had come into the country across the Canadian border, and they asked the F16s to intercept the plane. So they weren't coming after me after all.  |
We have a national guard armory about 15 miles and a small engine plane airport about 20 miles from us.I've seen the double top propeller green military helicopter,that I figured was from the armory fly across in about the same route that the one the other day was traveling before,but that is very rare.The closest big airliner airport is about 100 miles from here.I've saw contrails from jets or airliners before,but they were so high up that I couldn't even see what was flying.There's probably an unrelated reason as to why they did that,but I hardly ever see any helicopters and any time I have they just kept going.The woods are back from our house enough that I can clear the tops of the trees enough to get extremes e and west if my
actuator and mount would let me.That's why I wondered why they kept coming back from this way and that way,because about the time they'd reach the woods in front,back,and sides of my house was where they would start turning to come back in front,behind,and side of me,never straight over me.Now,being up over the trees like that they might could have seen enough into the woods that they needed to see,but from where I was looking it just looked like they were going over open pasture and my house and across the highway and turning around just as they reached the woods and come right back.Sometimes they would turn a little different so they would come by from E. to W.instead of N. to S. direction.I was pointing at G-10 and I made tiny adjustments just fooling around waiting for them to leave.Even though I wasn't doing anything wrong,I wasn't about to start pointing across the sky while they kept doing that.Hey,I bought a 13 in. Wed. night to use when I do some tuning,but that day I had a 19 in. hooked to it.Maybe they were trying to see what was on.
