Odd Flight Profile - What's It Doing?
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Odd Flight Profile - What's It Doing?
Idle looking at flightradar just now and spotted G-ECGC (A Reims Cessna 172) departing from near Peteborough at 9:27 this morning, transiting up to the Wirral Peninisula, conducting a series of orbits at several locations at about 800ft and now doing the same over numerous location in and around Liverpool.
Any ideas? Could it be aerial photography? Or is it a wrongly identified aircraft?
Any ideas? Could it be aerial photography? Or is it a wrongly identified aircraft?
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Aerial photography of some sort - pretty sure the same aircraft was doing the same over here last year. Interestingly it seemed be concentrating on local schools and looking at ADSB the same appears true of its orbits over Liverpool today.
I do recall some of the turns were bloomin' steep, as they are left hand turns it seems to be a case of multi-tasking!
I do recall some of the turns were bloomin' steep, as they are left hand turns it seems to be a case of multi-tasking!
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I remember there used to a business which would take lots of pictures of houses and then send someone door to door to try to flog them to the homeowners. I assumed that was long gone with the advent of google earth and so on but maybe it still works if you've got the entire set of parents of try to sell to (with the school taking a cut, perhaps).
In any event, it's still airborne and if, as you say, it's single-crewed, then it will be a very tiring sortie!
In any event, it's still airborne and if, as you say, it's single-crewed, then it will be a very tiring sortie!
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A friend's parents paid quite a lot for a door to door sold "professional" aerial photo of their delightful Hampshire pile. I later gave them a framed 10x8 Boots print, taken with my Olympus OM-10 from the right hand seat of Dan-Air's tatty old C150 G-ATPM a year or so before its sad crash - they reckoned mine was a far better pic! 
Someone tried it with me once; having told them I do my own aerial photos when I looked I could see a hedge of leylandii which I'd had cut down so I knew it was at least 2 years old.
I seem to recall the older thread and (if memory serves) it was a contract to catalogue school properties and assets for the Min of Edu so as to plan future works.
