Bad idea, or best idea?

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 03/08/2019 at 16:09 • Filed to: None

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Truck air horn on a Cessna

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Reposting for the daytime Planelopnik crowd

Steve in Manhattan > Dusty Ventures 03/07/2019 at 23:13

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How else are you going to get those pesky 767s out of the way?

Aremmes > Dusty Ventures 03/07/2019 at 23:19

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Now I’m imagining a Cessna doing a low fly-by with an air horn on full blast. “bwaaa aaaAAAAAAOOOoooommm.”

Maxima Speed > Dusty Ventures 03/07/2019 at 23:21

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Didn’t watch the video. I just imagined a Cessna with the horn from a twingo. Meep meep!! At a 737.

WilliamsSW > Dusty Ventures 03/07/2019 at 23:31

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I’d love to know what the hell they were thinking. And what they were drinking. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 03/08/2019 at 01:05

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Back in 2005, a former Marine with a bolt- action rifle shot down the c ounty s heriff d epartment’s helicopter from his backyard in Albuquerque because he was annoyed by the sound of it circling of the neighborhood. I want to say this is how you get people to start shooting at your Cessna.

PS9 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 03/08/2019 at 01:25

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Don't even bother with a phone call or something, just skip right on to a ttempted murder?

NKato > Dusty Ventures 03/08/2019 at 02:18

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Train horn. Air compressor. Done.

OPPOsaurus WRX > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 03/08/2019 at 07:32

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thats taking Grand Theft Auto wayyyy too seriously.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > PS9 03/08/2019 at 10:16

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Take a trained rifleman, some anti-government sentiment and (I guess) a dude who just wants to go to sleep at night and there’s the possibility the police helicopter gets shot down. Granted he went to prison for it.

I’m not condoning what he did (after all, I worked in law enforcement for a bit around that time period) , but for context the police and sherriff’s helicopter situation got a little out of hand around that time period in Albuquerque . They both got in trouble from the FAA a couple of times for repeated incidents of flying below 1500ft above ground level (while not doing anything like landing or taking off) , and the police department got in trouble for their helicopter deciding to land in a vacant lot next to a newly built Krispy Kreme location to stop and buy some donuts in the middle of a shift. At the time, I lived near one of the major cruising hot spots in ABQ where the cops would have the helicopter flying overhead (to track cars/motorcycles that ran from them when caught drag racing) for hours on end on Friday and Saturday nights . It got old, and with the FLIR cameras on board there wasn’t actually a reason for them to be flying as low as tended to. Knowing enough folks in LE at the time, I think they liked the intimidation factor of the bird thumping loudly right overhead when someone was running from them.

Anyway, after that dude shot down the sheriff’s department helicopter both agencies got noticeably less aggressive with how they used them. They don’t generally  spend nearly as much time flying at low altitudes like they used to.

Darkbrador > Dusty Ventures 03/08/2019 at 16:22

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I wonder how much the airspeed decreases for each blast ...

U nless it aims backwards and serves as a booster.

No matter what : best idea. 

ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 03/08/2019 at 17:03

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Throw in a little PTSD, perhaps, as well.

ttyymmnn > Dusty Ventures 03/08/2019 at 17:08

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I don’t know, maybe a couple of Jericho trumpets would be better.

user314 > ttyymmnn 03/08/2019 at 17:26

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Agreed, though a t ruck horn’s probably easier to come by.

ttyymmnn > user314 03/08/2019 at 17:29

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I’ve never seen Dunkirk. I know through my studies how horrible it was for those men , and I have no interest in seeing it reenacted.