Anybody Actually been Intercepted?
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After a similar incident to yours, with a temporary restricted zone over a nuclear powerplant in France some years ago (soon after they had implemented them), where we had infringed the space by 1/2mile laterally and 200' vertically, we were told by the French military on arrival at our next fuel stop, that they would have sent the Mirages up to intercept us had it not been a Sunday !!!!
It was about lunchtime too as I recall :-)
After a similar incident to yours, with a temporary restricted zone over a nuclear powerplant in France some years ago (soon after they had implemented them), where we had infringed the space by 1/2mile laterally and 200' vertically, we were told by the French military on arrival at our next fuel stop, that they would have sent the Mirages up to intercept us had it not been a Sunday !!!!
It was about lunchtime too as I recall :-)
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Thanks All, Some good stories here, seems more common than not!
ok,... i do admit the 8year old in me really would have liked the mirages to turn up... the 30-ish year old who would have paid for it did not.
Thank fully for us it was a Sunday too!
I did get the distinct impression from the controller we would have been intercepted, i cannot remember her exact words, but she was nay very happy.
We also got vectored to deauville (after telling her our intentions and life story, where why what how long, POB etc...) which led us to believe there was going to be a van full off French gendarme waiting for us, luckily not!
I'd call it a GPS fail, it was not in the avydyne but i think it was on the French sectionals back at Denham....
I got sandwitched by two Chinnoks, out of Odiham i was in the circuit at Lasham in a K-13 and one went above me, then the other bum tinglingly close underneath. very hard to spot against the pines there, the though of the twin rotors kept me awak at night.
ok,... i do admit the 8year old in me really would have liked the mirages to turn up... the 30-ish year old who would have paid for it did not.
Thank fully for us it was a Sunday too!
I did get the distinct impression from the controller we would have been intercepted, i cannot remember her exact words, but she was nay very happy.
We also got vectored to deauville (after telling her our intentions and life story, where why what how long, POB etc...) which led us to believe there was going to be a van full off French gendarme waiting for us, luckily not!
I'd call it a GPS fail, it was not in the avydyne but i think it was on the French sectionals back at Denham....
I got sandwitched by two Chinnoks, out of Odiham i was in the circuit at Lasham in a K-13 and one went above me, then the other bum tinglingly close underneath. very hard to spot against the pines there, the though of the twin rotors kept me awak at night.
