Thread: Low flying

Hopefully they were flying away from the thunderhead....thunderstorms and aircraft don't mix all that well.

aew849

Hmmm, a bit risky only 150 AGL with the possibility of encountering windshear.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Just had a plane fly up the valley next to the house, about level with the house, probably about 150ft above ground level. Could only see navigation lights, sounded like a four engine turboprop, so I presume it was a Hercules - we often see them doing this, but it is the first time I have seen one doing it flying into a thunderstorm. It is just starting to rain, with a very impressive sound and light show.

John

A few times when we have been up at our block, not too far from you John, there have been planes coming in really low along the Talbragar River - only in daylight hours though.

Let us know how much rain you get out there, if you wouldn't mind. We could do with a bit here at Horsley, looks dark and overcast, but so far ...zilch moisture.

Used to do it often in the valley we used to live in too, although not into a storm !
Mostly low and slow, but one Herc came in low and very fast one day, did a hard bank to starboard and popped up over the 1000m ridge just to the east. It was pretty impressive.
It just doesn't happen here closer to town except for a Caribou one day doing the scenic route of our valley. I think he was trying to find his way out

A few years back the exit out of one of the paddocks on the FIL's old place was on a ridge line, and as I jumped out of the farm ute to open the gate a Hawk from Williamtown went right over the top of me only about 200' up and flat out

Over twenty years ago A few mates and I were staying at a friends place at Bundarra when a pair of F111's buzzed the farm. One flew past the front of the house and the other behind, banking hard over the old airstrip so you could see into the cockpit and see the pilot and Nav sitting side by side

Originally Posted by aew849

Hopefully they were flying away from the thunderhead....thunderstorms and aircraft don't mix all that well.

aew849

That is what I thought! They were flying roughly across the front of the storm.

John

Same bloody aircraft went through here Have just weaned some calves and they went through two fences I don't mind low air craft but not welcome near our stock yards and horses

Originally Posted by Rangier Rover

Same bloody aircraft went through here Have just weaned some calves and they went through two fences I don't mind low air craft but not welcome near our stock yards and horses

While we were building our house one came right over the caravan at about 0100. After unplastering herself off the ceiling my wife spent the next morning on the phone and eventually found someone in the RAAF who accepted complaints about this sort of thing. We have never had one fly directly over the house since then - and that was over fifteen years ago.

John

Where we used to live on the far western outskirts of Sydney we had several balloons land in the paddocks, right in the middle of horses
SWMBO wasn't too impressed, rang the company and told them off and they said they would never land again, but they came back.....

They put two expensive young ones through a fence and down the road.
All the pilot could say was "it's ok, we have insurance .."

He doesn't know how close he came to death that day, and it wasn't from flying. An angry woman is a scary sight
All the occupants of the basket them proceeded to climb over all the fences