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The military doesn’t like airspace violations much…

Doesn’t really matter which country.

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It happened to a friend (with a pilot license I precise).

He was flying a small two seat aircraft and got contacted through the radio and for asked if he was ok to do a exercice with military aircraft.

He agreed so soon after two fighter jet arrived on his left and right. To be able to fly at the same speed as him they were almost standing vertically. They directed him for a bit without any radio contact, then thanked him through the radio and left.

They were doing a exercise to direct someone with no radio contact.

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12 points

Even if I knew the jets were exercising, I’d still be making diamonds.

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4 points

I feel like this is the type of thing where as a passenger you’d be having the time of your life but the pilot? Shaved 10 years off lol.

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8 points

I’m reminded of Mathias Rust. The guy is very lucky he wasn’t shot down.

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3 points

Holy shit. Yeah, he’s incredibly lucky to not be a pink mist. Still did 14months of a 4 year sentence in a labour camp though.

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84 points

You ever see those “Speed limit enforced by aircraft” signs? That’s the guy you gotta worry about.

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That’s what “©” means. In most states you are by natural law not allowed to be faster than the speed of light

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most states

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12 points

I don’t know of any where it’s allowed but I didn’t want to generalize since generalizations are always wrong. Always.

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5 points

Some states haven’t adopted the most recent version of the laws of physics.

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3 points

… of matter

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That damned big governement and their rules smh

/s

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2 points

Most of the times, yes

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4 points

I never actually understood those. Do they actually have, like… a drone? Is it snapping a photo? How’s it all work?

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So you’ll occasionally see two white lines perpendicular to the road at a set internal. A helicopter, drone, or plane can time when a car passes both of these lines and can calculate the average speed of the car.

This info is then relayed to a police car on the ground who then pulls over the driver.

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Why is that better than the police officer who was going to pull them over just using a speed gun?

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2 points

I drive through areas like this all the time for years. I have never heard of anyone actually getting a ticket from this.

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59 points

what are they going to do pull you over

Yes. With missiles.

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in reality I think ATC will just wait 2 hours for you to run out of fuel and notify the local police for wherever you land

if you’re headed towards the pentagon though they’ll probably shoot you down

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Me when I launch my paddleboard without my permit. Who’s gonna stop me? The water cops? (Yes, yes they will 😞)

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Where do you live that you need a permit to paddleboard?

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15 points

PA, as with kayaks I need a launch permit for the lakes and rivers.

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16 points

Good grief.

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10 points

I don’t know where op is from but a lot of states, especially in the western US require invasive species tags on any craft over a certain length, like 10 ft. Some also require state registration decals. Idaho is an example of one that takes the invasive species decals and water craft checkpoints very seriously.

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Certain locales in CA are pretty big on it too. My local lake is huge on the decontamination thing and require certification on even small kayaks. They also like money too.

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yep. got a warning once for not having purchased a permit on my paddle board.

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50 points

What goes up most come down

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depends on how far up you go

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7 points

Depends on how far up fast you go. Reaching space doesn’t mean you can stay there. You need orbital velocity.

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6 points

if i’m half a light year from earth i’m not going to be falling back down

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