Originally Posted by
Flintstone
Ten feet eh?
Allegedly the cluprit has professional experieince lighting flying choppers at air displays, so he might well have more idea than the average civilian.
Also given that it was a military helicopter and the incident was at a "farmhouse" in a rural area, they could well be flying very very low. Low flying military helicopters have been implicated in the deaths of horseriders in the UK.
The question it begs for me is, if you
are buzzed by a low flying aircraft at night, how the heck do you get the tail number to complain without shining some kind of light ? I would have thought there was a difference between shining a (diffuse) torch at the tail and a concentrated green alser at the cockpit window, but it appears not...
