RE: Helicopters To Catch Speeding Drivers
Discussion
This is nothing new in Essex, the police helicopter already patrols the A130, I've had them sitting of one side of me on the m/bike on quite a few occasions, they're just updating the technology from the square blobs in the road to something more user friendly (read easier to catch speeders and make money).
Most police helicopters these days also serve as air ambulances if required, the 3 new London one's based in East Essex are dual purpose/multi-functional.
Of course if you don't speed you won't attract their attention!
Most police helicopters these days also serve as air ambulances if required, the 3 new London one's based in East Essex are dual purpose/multi-functional.
Of course if you don't speed you won't attract their attention!
Double R said:
glad I have a convertible car
next step is to use some stealth technology a-la James Bond
Thats a brilliant idea, my old neighbour had some anti-radar paint that he got from a releative in the army, he painted his shed with it. I wonder if that would work on all cameras.next step is to use some stealth technology a-la James Bond
Edited by Double R on Wednesday 27th August 12:35
That would be awesome, how does the C-charge work, would it avoid that too,
Cerberus90 said:
Double R said:
glad I have a convertible car
next step is to use some stealth technology a-la James Bond
Thats a brilliant idea, my old neighbour had some anti-radar paint that he got from a releative in the army, he painted his shed with it. I wonder if that would work on all cameras.next step is to use some stealth technology a-la James Bond
Edited by Double R on Wednesday 27th August 12:35
SpyderPig said:
What a fantastic way to improve road safety!!!!
Scanning the sky instead of the road ahead will help enormously ....
There was a demonstration of these consequences a little while ago on the A14 near Cambridge ....Scanning the sky instead of the road ahead will help enormously ....
Police helicopter tracking an old biddie driving on the wrong side of the road resulted in people looking at the chopper and not the car coming towards them on their side of the road or the drivers in front braking in avoidance.
But still, police hit gold with one more accident caused by speed - can put that one in the books as 100mph.
Oh and btw has anyone else seen the 80% reduction in accidents on the A14 after the installation of SPECS cameras claimed by the rossers?
ZZR said:
This is nothing new in Essex, the police helicopter already patrols the A130, I've had them sitting of one side of me on the m/bike on quite a few occasions, they're just updating the technology from the square blobs in the road to something more user friendly (read easier to catch speeders and make money).
Most police helicopters these days also serve as air ambulances if required, the 3 new London one's based in East Essex are dual purpose/multi-functional.
Nonetheless, is the £1k per hour operational rate justifiable? Most police helicopters these days also serve as air ambulances if required, the 3 new London one's based in East Essex are dual purpose/multi-functional.
- These ARE NOT dual-purpose air-ambulances, as if one is needed to divert to a medical shout 10 mins before minimum fuel they can't do it. So you need additional airframes to maintain the Air Ambulance service.
- And a lot of the cost is in fuel and maintenance, which are hours-driven, so extended use on traffic enforcement will ramp-up the airframe usage and fuel and maintenance costs, so that £1k per hour is pretty much all variable costs!
What a waste of f
king money...
automaniac7 said:
Oh and btw has anyone else seen the 80% reduction in accidents on the A14 after the installation of SPECS cameras claimed by the rossers?
To be fair, that could be true... used to see a lot of shunts due to people slamming on brakes where all the gatsos/truvelos were. Of course this means that their 80% reduction is more to do with the removal of the gatsos than the addition of the average cameras.I'd be interested to see how this 'radar device' works as is well known UK law requires an acurate speed, date-time and location.
Years ago hand held radar and laser guns were banned and now require to be on stands as it was proved that a stationary wall could measure a speed with minor fluctuations of the wrist.
It is nearly impossible to stop a helicopter from moving around and maintain a static position therefore how can the accuracy of the measurement be guaranteed?
GPS is inaccurate for position measurement, +-10m on the stuff in your car. Higher quality software I believe can get that down to +-1m. Military is supposedly less, but that information is classified.
Maybe they are doing something special, but I personally don't see how they can guarrantee the accuracy.
And I agree how many patrol cars would the suposed £1k an hour buy, or the more likely £10k an hour?
Years ago hand held radar and laser guns were banned and now require to be on stands as it was proved that a stationary wall could measure a speed with minor fluctuations of the wrist.
It is nearly impossible to stop a helicopter from moving around and maintain a static position therefore how can the accuracy of the measurement be guaranteed?
GPS is inaccurate for position measurement, +-10m on the stuff in your car. Higher quality software I believe can get that down to +-1m. Military is supposedly less, but that information is classified.
Maybe they are doing something special, but I personally don't see how they can guarrantee the accuracy.
And I agree how many patrol cars would the suposed £1k an hour buy, or the more likely £10k an hour?
Isn't that what the white squares are for in the middle of the road ? They have been there for years, obviously for the purpose of this very thing.
But what a total waste of taxpayers money though, whoever thought using Helicopters to catch speeding drivers is a money wasting squandering idiot/'s.
If I lived in Essex I would demand that they give me a rebate on my Council tax as they obviously getting too much money .
This is just another example of how out of touch with reality this Government is, their sneering spendthrift ideology is unbelievable.
I read in the news today that the police have arrested a fifth man for the death threats to Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, gees they better have a big jail
as the 99% of the country might have to be arrested too !
TW>>>
But what a total waste of taxpayers money though, whoever thought using Helicopters to catch speeding drivers is a money wasting squandering idiot/'s.
If I lived in Essex I would demand that they give me a rebate on my Council tax as they obviously getting too much money .
This is just another example of how out of touch with reality this Government is, their sneering spendthrift ideology is unbelievable.
I read in the news today that the police have arrested a fifth man for the death threats to Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, gees they better have a big jail
as the 99% of the country might have to be arrested too !
TW>>>
Cracking 'the world revolves around us' PH thread to start the afternoon. I love Captain Gatso's tabloid pandering. I'm sure airtime in £ spent on speed 'detection' will amount to police on the street.
I can't wait to see the queue out of the Magistrates' court for all the 1000s of speeding prosecutions that are going to be fundamentally produced by the air support unit
Let me know when the first one occurs.
I can't wait to see the queue out of the Magistrates' court for all the 1000s of speeding prosecutions that are going to be fundamentally produced by the air support unit
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