remmy1100 Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 national grid fly low over powerlines when its hot for some reason ive often thought it was police copter as its very similar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Urban legend sorry! Mike. Claim: A hand-held police radar unit successfully tracked a military aircraft on maneuvers, nearly causing the aircraft to fire a missile in response. FALSERead more at http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp#JAa6kW52My218jZX.99 didnt make it up it was in the EDP a few years ago ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanj Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 digressing slightly.......several years ago when the Americans were based at Lakenheath with their A10 tank busters...they used to patrol the approaches for the jets bringing their troops back...... anyway a couple of plods were on duty on the road to Elverden doing speed trap and they got board and pointed the radar gun at one of the A10,s flying low near them...so they stuck the radar gun in the air to see how fast it was going..!!! welll.....the A10 flipped a right standing on one wing, then stood on its left wing..dropped 3 flares out then dived down to the plods in the wood, the gattling gun was turning and ready to fire...then pulled up at the last second... when the boys got back to Wymondham HQ they were ushered into the supers office where there was an American airforce officer...who very "testily" told them that they were within 1 second of been blown away as the onboard systems identified the radar gun as a "lock on" lucky boys eh! almost identical story to the A66 lock on story.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 OJW what colour was it? Western power operate the same type of aircraft but they are all yellow and fly very low and slow checking the power lines. If not them the military flying schools use Squirrels in the same colours as the police, blue and yellow. If it was police and as low as you said you would have seen police written in the side. Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted June 19, 2014 Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 Checking for hot spots on the insulators. national grid fly low over powerlines when its hot for some reason ive often thought it was police copter as its very similar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark@mbb Posted June 19, 2014 Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 The national grid fly along power lines looking for heat spots and problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 They'd spot a buzzard nesting on a pilon near me ! I've often had the A&S Police helicopter over me when shooting, it always seems rather low as though it is checking me out. Irritating.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 they get on your tits flying over your house 4.00am in the morning Ah, they are probably keeping abreast of the current crime patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 They'd spot a buzzard nesting on a pilon near me ! I've often had the A&S Police helicopter over me when shooting, it always seems rather low as though it is checking me out. Irritating.. Where abouts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJW Posted June 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Harry, blue and yellow. Coming to think of it, it didn't actually say police on, I thought it might be on the other side. Your probably right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Not police nor army but some years ago an anti shooting neighbour to our club shoot flew his perspex bubble copter back and forth along the boundary of one of our almost impenetrable drives. Certainly put more pheasants in the air than the beating team ever manages. Blackpowder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Not police nor army but some years ago an anti shooting neighbour to our club shoot flew his perspex bubble copter back and forth along the boundary of one of our almost impenetrable drives. Certainly put more pheasants in the air than the beating team ever manages. Blackpowder Did you give him a brace of pheasants and the date of your next day , it would have been well worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornfree Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 i've had a weird thing fly over me while i've been foxing recently.its a twin propeller plane that flys so slowly you would think it would drop out of the sky.and the noise is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Bornfree was it one of these? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey I saw one over the Malverns a few weeks ago. Ugly looking things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 I have been spotlighted by one, late one night shooting rabbits on a golf course using 2 lamps. Hovering at around 100 feet. I switched the lights on so that it could land if it wanted to, unloaded the rifles and stood in the headlamp beam. He flew off, I did see the green keeper when I left and explained what had happened but he said no one had called him. I had advised the town Police station when and where I would be, since then I dont bother with that. A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 i've had a weird thing fly over me while i've been foxing recently.its a twin propeller plane that flys so slowly you would think it would drop out of the sky.and the noise is amazing. One of these maybe?, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjh Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) The national grid fly along power lines looking for heat spots and problems a lot of the helicopters will be on "linewatch" they constantly patrol the infrastructure, running the gas & fuel pipeline network across the UK, you would be surprised what's under your feet, this is just the published data, some other lines not on maps. Quite easy to fine the locations http://www.hse.gov.uk/pipelines/markers.pdf have a look around when your out they are all over. http://www.linewatch.co.uk/pipeline_network.php Edited June 24, 2014 by chrisjh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Did you give him a brace of pheasants and the date of your next day , it would have been well worth it He had been offered a brace in the past but declined. His next outing was to lie in wait with digi camera to see if we crossed his boundary, two members did in search of a wounded bird and were recorded by the guy. Fortunately they had left their guns on our side of the boundary. Blackpowder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornfree Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Bornfree was it one of these? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey I saw one over the Malverns a few weeks ago. Ugly looking things. it probably was as i'am close to the usaf base at lakenheath. at night the ends of the propellers show up as two green rings coming towards you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Yep bornfree, the ospreys are stationed at Lakenheath at the moment. See them quite often at work and around home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jam1e Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 The paranoia on here does make me chuckle... At a £1000 an hour it is highly unlikely to have been called out for a person with a "gun" or similar, unless already in the area, and just "helped out" That would account for 99% of the time. I can believe the odd 1%, especially if you live in, shall we say, a not so nice an area.... Generally it's plod with a silly hat who gets sent out first. Unless, the coms operator has enough ba*** to get a lazy a**** armed unit to actually do at least one job during a shift. Not that I'm saying they're all lazy that is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanj Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 The paranoia on here does make me chuckle... At a £1000 an hour it is highly unlikely to have been called out for a person with a "gun" or similar, unless already in the area, and just "helped out" That would account for 99% of the time. I can believe the odd 1%, especially if you live in, shall we say, a not so nice an area.... Generally it's plod with a silly hat who gets sent out first. Unless, the coms operator has enough ba*** to get a lazy ***** armed unit to actually do at least one job during a shift. Not that I'm saying they're all lazy that is.... yeah, in this day and age plod dont bother too much about reports of a man with a "gun" do they............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jam1e Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 yeah, in this day and age plod dont bother too much about reports of a man with a "gun" do they............. That depends, Is it not fair to assume that someone clad in camo gear holding a "gun" in a rural area, like a field would be treated differently to the same person being seen walking down your average town centre...... ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanj Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 That depends, Is it not fair to assume that someone clad in camo gear holding a "gun" in a rural area, like a field would be treated differently to the same person being seen walking down your average town centre...... ......... It is not. Witness the members on here who have been disturbed while going about their lawful business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Spanj, Jamie is right. We get loads of calls we get relating to people shooting even in rural areas and the helicopter gets sent to very few. It would mostly be at night and that's just because it can check big open areas in darkness a lot quicker than officers with torches. This actually saves money compared to the number of officers/hours you would need to search it properly on the ground. I think quite a few members on here are paranoid that if they see a helicopter when they are out shooting its for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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