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Does ATC ever have a laugh at what they see on radar?

Peter wrote:

I wonder if he programmed the autopilot for it?
I can tell for sure that D-ENIG does not have an autopilot
Friedrichshafen EDNY

My attempt yesterday was perhaps more abstractly artistic, with as much sense as Picasso paintings

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Don’t blame it on the autopilot, Peter

EBST, Belgium

This is a good one

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom


LOWI,LIPB, Italy

@lukepower looks like floor heating to me. Is this reconnaissance flight? During Covid (when most of the flights were cancelled) the police did some similar flights using a Partenavia 68 over the Frankfurt area to do some new measurements to improve GPS approach accuracy. This went for weeks.

Last Edited by UdoR at 22 Mar 11:46
Germany

@UdoR I have no clue, just saw this PC12 leaving Switzerland yesterday and doing these flights since then :)

LOWI,LIPB, Italy

Those are just survey flights. Either aerial pictures or Lidar (elevation data).

Nympsfield, United Kingdom

I’ve seen a lot of flights like that on the French atlantic coast, south of Bordeaux – iirc a Cessna 208. I assume it’s some kind of survey. Must get quite boring to fly!

LFMD, France

They do require very accurate flying so lots of concentration.

EHLE / Lelystad, Netherlands, Netherlands
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