What's flying over your house?

ES44AC said:
They were made for grass strips. Tail draggers are jerky on pavement. That Mustang stalls at 95 mph , so 110 mph~ landing speed 😳.
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Yeah I was just making fun of the icon FR24 uses for a fighter. No matter the year, no matter if it has propellers. Heck if it was a Sopwith Camel they'd probably use the same icon.

110 is still pretty exciting tho.
 
commiecuriocollector said:
Well well you lucky bugger, made a road trip to see someone’s Johnson eh? Or is that KNKT? Or somewhere else? Cool regardless, you must have a heck of a lens.
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Short trip to Florida, flying out of Elgin/Ft. Walton. I have to go to Norfolk next week, they’ve started flying F35’s out of Oceana too. So I’ll probably have some air shows in my future.
 
Mathieu18 said:
Short trip to Florida, flying out of Elgin/Ft. Walton. I have to go to Norfolk next week, they’ve started flying F35’s out of Oceana too. So I’ll probably have some air shows in my future.
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Very interesting app/dep schedule you have there :) Feel free to keep us updated with any Kodak moments you make.
 
commiecuriocollector said:
In attack formation I see. That's what you get when you give em a bunch of OH-58s. Thankfully without the "D's".
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They have two. Maybe three? But I think two. I am amazed that with the state this big that's all they have in their fleet. They also have a peculiar way of getting their pilots, they take troopers and then send them to a civilian flight school.
 
Chuckman said:
They have two. Maybe three? But I think two. I am amazed that with the state this big that's all they have in their fleet. They also have a peculiar way of getting their pilots, they take troopers and then send them to a civilian flight school.
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They had more based at Kinston but they shut that unit down. My FIL flew them out of Kinston. I think there are 3 in Garner and then some out west. That’s the way he did it as well. Had I think around 15 years on the road before he became a pilot.
 
Mack270 said:
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Heard a peculiar sounding helicopter when I was in the shop the other day and saw this guy heading to trim some right of ways. First one I’d ever seen here.
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If there ever was a time for saying “I really hope that cargo is tied tight.” It was then.
 
Mack270 said:
They had more based at Kinston but they shut that unit down. My FIL flew them out of Kinston. I think there are 3 in Garner and then some out west. That’s the way he did it as well. Had I think around 15 years on the road before he became a pilot.
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I talked with a couple pilots at their facility in Garner couple years ago, I'm surprised that they had that few helicopters, and they'd take troopers and put them through flight school.
 
Chuckman said:
I talked with a couple pilots at their facility in Garner couple years ago, I'm surprised that they had that few helicopters, and they'd take troopers and put them through flight school.
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I know, I was surprised too. I know it’s apples and oranges but the LA Police Department has at least 17 in a much smaller area.

It is strange, I suppose the pay isn’t attractive to ex military pilots and perhaps they don’t want new troopers starting out in the air. I’ll try to remember that ask my FIL if he knows any reasoning behind it.
 
Les White said:
Maybe. They might have been down low. They have a few "usual" training paths. The one shown above where they leave CLT and head north is typically done at normal altitude until they get to WV. At that point they hit the deck and return south. When they pass over the house in Farmington they're so low you can see the pilots.
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The USAF also has some low level training flight paths that go through TN, western NC, VA and WVA. When my son was in pilot training, he got to play down in the weeds. He told me it's pretty scary to be trucking along below the ridgetops in a blind valley for the first time at the controls.
 
Mack270 said:
I know, I was surprised too. I know it’s apples and oranges but the LA Police Department has at least 17 in a much smaller area.

It is strange, I suppose the pay isn’t attractive to ex military pilots and perhaps they don’t want new troopers starting out in the air. I’ll try to remember that ask my FIL if he knows any reasoning behind it.
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If you find out more I'd love to know.

Maryland State Police uses former military pilots (or did), and they have several. Their flight medics are also state police troopers, medics who go through the academy.
 
Mack270 said:
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Heard a peculiar sounding helicopter when I was in the shop the other day and saw this guy heading to trim some right of ways. First one I’d ever seen here.
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9outof10mms said:
If there ever was a time for saying “I really hope that cargo is tied tight.” It was then.
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Have you ever seen one doing the right of way trimming?
That is scary, you don't want to be anywhere close to it.
 
I haven’t, just watched videos. The “giraffe” saw system that Asplundh uses doing the same work from the ground worries me when driving by it. I don’t have any clue how many rpm’s that saw blade is going but I picture it fracturing like a grinder cutting wheel every time.
 
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