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Old 26-04-11, 06:52 PM   #21
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Because I can't be bothered Googling, can anyone tell me about the helicopter being used for speed enforcement?
Yes it has often been sent up on Sunday mornings to hover over prime biking spots , one of their favourite things is to fly at an angle that you don`t really look at (usually behind one of your ears) . They then time you over known stretches of road , footage I have seen is they start at a White block painted on the road and time you to the next one , Enforcements have happened ..... and the footage I have seen in the past has been of real pillocks going at it .

Admittedly I have not heard it about as much recently but it was very prolific 2 years ago
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Old 26-04-11, 07:14 PM   #22
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Yes it has often been sent up on Sunday mornings to hover over prime biking spots , one of their favourite things is to fly at an angle that you don`t really look at (usually behind one of your ears) . They then time you over known stretches of road , footage I have seen is they start at a White block painted on the road and time you to the next one , Enforcements have happened ..... and the footage I have seen in the past has been of real pillocks going at it .

Admittedly I have not heard it about as much recently but it was very prolific 2 years ago

I know how it's done, they use a VASCAR unit over a measured distance, same as my traffic car.

What I want to know is, does anyone know someone, or can anyone point me to a reliable source showing how many people have been prosecuted for exceeding the speed limit using the helicopter as the corroberation for the observers opinion that the bike was speeding?

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Old 26-04-11, 07:24 PM   #23
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I have seen it getting cars over the A55, more than I've seen it getting bikes TBH. Then it tends to hover in one place.

I heard (don't mean it's true, though actually I think it was one of the emergency services pilots from another part of the UK that told me this, though it could just as easily been a man in the pub, I can't remember!) that they pay for the helicopter for a certain amount of hours per month. If they haven't used the quota towards the end of the month they send it up on speed enforcement.

Still pi$$es me off that tax payers money is used for this purpose, they should buy a smaller quota, then PAYG on a higher rate as and when they need it if they run out of hours.

Then it pi$$es me off that they spend taxpayers money on a scamera van and a man to stand inside it to catch speeders, when they could spend it on a police officer and a vehicle, that would be 10 times more effective in catching every type of offence

"They" are to blame for everything you see

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Old 26-04-11, 07:33 PM   #24
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What I want to know is, does anyone know someone, or can anyone point me to a reliable source showing how many people have been prosecuted for exceeding the speed limit using the helicopter as the corroberation for the observers opinion that the bike was speeding?
I know you said you can't be bothered to google it, but I think nobody is going to have an answer. It's either going to be silence, or a lmgtfy link
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Old 26-04-11, 08:04 PM   #25
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Yes it has often been sent up on Sunday mornings to hover over prime biking spots , one of their favourite things is to fly at an angle that you don`t really look at (usually behind one of your ears) . They then time you over known stretches of road , footage I have seen is they start at a White block painted on the road and time you to the next one , Enforcements have happened ..... and the footage I have seen in the past has been of real pillocks going at it .

Admittedly I have not heard it about as much recently but it was very prolific 2 years ago
I've never ever considered the liklihood of being caught speeding by a Helicopter. I thought speed traps, do gooders with speed cameras, and average mph cameras was enough. Now they've got helicopters?
**** me give us a all break, why don't "they" just fit tachometers in the Bikes and have done with it? Electronically upload it automatically complete with biological data, blood/ alcohol count, retina scan, fingerprints and sperm count. It's all too much, in the wrong area.

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Old 26-04-11, 08:12 PM   #26
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Cheshire Police send their plane up the Cat N Fiddle, see it circling over Macc quite regularly before heading up there. Don't know of anyone who has been done by it though.
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Old 27-04-11, 01:42 PM   #27
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Old 26-01-14, 08:08 PM   #28
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What I want to know is, does anyone know someone, or can anyone point me to a reliable source showing how many people have been prosecuted for exceeding the speed limit using the helicopter as the corroberation for the observers opinion that the bike was speeding?

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Returning from 1973 Austrian GP, the 'other' truck was stopped by a helicopter on the autobahn.
It hovered in front of them & charged a hefty fine.
Best bit was, the lads circled the biggest number on the document, converted it from deutschmarks into real @ Sterling @ money and claimed it on expenses, making a thumping profit.

Oh, regarding Brunstrom:
" Former North Wales Police chief Richard Brunstrom fined for having out-of-date car tax disc "
In New Zealand, bought a car & thought the tax disc date was when it started!
Just like here?
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Old 26-01-14, 08:14 PM   #29
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I was going up and down to see Maria in Aberystwyth lots through all the Brunstrom years and never had a problem, think it was all a load of balls and more likely a problem if you were going powerrangering on the popular roads.
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