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Illegal Flying Under Scottish Bridges

GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12707 posts, RR: 80
Posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1234 times:

Quite apart from the obvious dangers in actually doing the sort of things described below, is it smart to do odd or silly things with an aircraft in today's security environment?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3043308.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3022948.stm

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AvObserver From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 2430 posts, RR: 10
Reply 1, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1224 times:

Good God! Try something like that around New York City or Washington, D.C. and you're liable to have a hail of gunfire or worse, an air-to-air missile from an F-15 or F-16 directed at you if you don't respond to a radio hail quickly enough? What are some of these people thinking? Wow!

Luchtzak From Belgium, joined Dec 2001, 468 posts, RR: 9
Reply 2, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1174 times:

There are some great under-the-bridge movies around on the internet!! Check them at www.luchtzak.be, registration needed!

ciao,

Bart

Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4723 posts, RR: 38
Reply 3, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1086 times:

Morons.

"There is no doubt that activities like this are dangerous and are to be firmly discouraged. We would advise pilots not to carry out such a hazardous manoeuvre."

Not really much to add there.

BTW, I watched a helicopter fly under the Golden Gate Bridge in 1997, when I was standing on said bridge.

Daniel Smile

Ben From Switzerland, joined Aug 1999, 1391 posts, RR: 52
Reply 4, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 993 times:

The rules in the UK are:

No aircraft can be flown within 500ft of any Person, Vehicle, Vessel or Structure, and not below 1500ft of a built up area (and in practice that means even the tiniest villages or random groups of houses).

The exception is if the low-flying is done for normal aviation operations, such as landings or takeoffs.

Either way, flying UNDER a bridge is 100% illegal.

EGGD From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2001, 12426 posts, RR: 40
Reply 5, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 958 times:

Unless the bridge was over 500ft tall Big thumbs up

ANA777master From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 126 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (9 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 940 times:

What's the big deal? If they crash all they'll do kill is themselves and a bunch of Larch trees.

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