Macclesfield

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james solomon
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Macclesfield

Post by james solomon »

There's a chopper doing circuits round my area now its quite loud and if it was a police chopper it have the spotlight on but someone may prove me wrong also radar doesn't pick it up

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Brevet Cable
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Plod-copters in my area don't always have the searchlight on ( especially when they're operating over Cardiff )
As for "radar doesn't pick it up", I assume you mean on the likes of FR24 & other tracking programs ?
If so that's nothing unusual if my area is anything to go by, the only helicopter which routinely shows up on the tracking programs is the SAR one -- Neither the Police or Heli-med ones tend to be shown on them.
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cg_341
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Re: Macclesfield

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Heard Police151 heading in that sort of direction earlier, didn't really pay attention to exactly where though.

nighthawk999
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Re: Macclesfield

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360Radar(£19.99 a year)consistently picks up police helis,shown as NPAS,and by callsign,my local one in the East Midlands is G-EMID,and their routes can be tracked.
This is along with civilian and military traffic,including tankers in the various AARAs.

DonaldGrump
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Re: Macclesfield

Post by DonaldGrump »

If it was in the vicinity of the Moss the Weston or the Priory it would most certainly have been flying plod.

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