Questions about a C17 flying at an altitude of 825 FT through residential areas. Including my house.
About 10 minutes ago we had a C17 fly right over our house. I thought it was extremely low, roughly 500-1000 feet in altitude. It damn near shook our house.
I went on flightradarx.com, and was able to locate the exact plane. It shows the altitude at 825 feet. In my time in this area, I've never seen or heard a plane come so low by our neighborhood.
I'm not saying this is some habbening or that it's overly exciting, I'm just curious to know if anyone would have information as to why they might be flying so low? How common is this? Any insight at all would be appreciated.
I had the same thing happen with 2 military helicopters a couple weeks ago, around 1am. Shook the entire house.
I guess it depends on where you live, and if it's near any military airfields or training areas?
There's rules about flying low, or below a certain height, over large built up areas unless cleared to do so. Or depending on classification of the airspace in question.
I'm not native to the USA but have flown there as a pilot (mil) and whilst your flying rules are less strict than my own country (probably because of the vast amount of area) it wouldn't be usual just to low fly over a built up area in a C17 because you felt like it!
The Pinecastle Impact Range is approximately 5 miles from me, it is a no fly zone because of the bombing range
No clue, but damn that's a cool pepe!!!
not enough info... where did it originate, where did it land and at what time and date would be helpful or you are just asking for guesses
I live near the Pine Castle impact range, and I see helicopters constantly operating below 1000 ft. I call all the time they do not care.
I see the same thing in my rural area, early morning going same flight path, always a helicopter, always just an over the tree line, and they never show up on flight radar trackers. It’s not military.
yesterday at a friends they were going look at the plane it is blue! I said the pilot is doing something illegal and I never could explain to them why they just thought it silly
Wow, just wow!
...steady as she goes....
Sometimes they fly low in order to avoid a threat of some sort.....
500 ft over sparce and 1,000 ft over congested population areas. If faster than 250 kts, they must have been on a low level route. However, if they were doing something like counter terrorism training, all bets are off.