speed helicopter

[igiyf]

Speed checks carried out by the £1000-an-hour chopper will mainly be on motorbike riders, officers have indicated.

what an absolute waste of money:P amazing!
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2008/september/1-7/sep0208-essex-to-use-helicopter-to-target-bikes/?R=EPI-102639

[Spit-Fire]

i swear England is such a anti bike country!
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[igiyf]

is spending 1000 per hour justified to catch speeders?a very small amount of speeders..out of the group of road users being the smallest of them all what a seriously big waste of time the government/country makes me laugh more each day

[NSR Mick]

It's ok it's targeting southerners.
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[igiyf]

thats ok then! wouldt want to be paying for it and getting what you paid for at the same time!being caught by the fucker

[nick606]

They do that round here on a wednesday when most of the bikers are out, they also bring the undercover bike/cars out a bit ott really.

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[Essex_Mike]

I swear i got followed by one of these the other month. May have been coincidence, luckily I stayed a good boy after noticing it

Do they have any helicoptors up north for this or do they use common sence and see its not worth the money?
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[nick606]

[jack_zxr400]

What a waste of money
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[Lone-Wolf]

wotcha.

It's from MCN - hence a load of bollocks.

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[Pernig]

[moog]

A Helicopter can keep up with a speeding bike and has the advantage of a much greater spread of vision than a patrol car that struggles to catch a cold, so I can see the principle behind their thinking.

As usual though it's yet another scaremongering story from the MCN.
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[iooi]

This was in the Papers a while back, and it was saying it was aimed at motorists.....

Funny how when reported in diffrent mags they take a diffrent tack.

I think it will be more aimed at catching the stupid riders/drivers who deserve to get caught by their reckless road use.
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[base]

i do feel its a waste of money i appreciate that police helicopters have there uses, but to send them out to catch speeders, come on thats a waste of money and also i have no doubt my taxes will pay for there carbon foot print,

I would rather they spent money on air ambulances as these rely on some charity, but then no doubt some twat would say if we can stop people speeding it will reduce accidents and the air ambulance wont be required, and that in itself is a load of old tosh accidents always happen its life,

i did read some time ago 3 bikers were caught speeding something like a whooping 75mph in a national speed limit if i remember correctly, they got nicked by a chopper so thats a combined 180 quid fine but take out all the wages of the people that have to process the paper work associated with the offence, pay for the jungle juice in the chopper, and i reckon there running at a loss......................well what can i say..................................... utter fuck wits.................................i wish my business could waste as much money, as at the end of the day its just a business.

i apologies for my ramblings

[daemonoid]

[chrisdd]

I agree with "BASE" it really frustrates me how they can spend so much money on a stupid police ROFL motorbike Speed Chopper and not on a air ambulance which will save more life's than that stupid flying dickhead thing!!!

sorry about that, but it is wrong, some of the comments on the link are right too, such as charity's have to beg for funds from the public for the Air chopper while the police one just takes the money out of out pay checks!!!
urgh. we should start a petition or something!!! saying what we think about a £1000 hour chopper to reduce the small minority of bikers who go over 30mph on the roads well cars do it to (wait even police do when there on patrol but no one complains at them we just pay them to do it!!!!)

£1000 an hour its just stupid amount of money if they fly for lets say 7 hours in a day 7 days a week that's (pulls out calculator.....) that's £49000 in one week! lets do that for a month £212333.33 (times weekly by 52 and divided by 12) and for a year £2547999.9.
now that is just plain stupid!!!!


now i know they wont go up 7 hours a day and 7 days a week, but its still stupid

[iooi]

[headgear]

I live on the A184 between Great Dunmow and Ongar and every post has the helicopter sign, but the A120 dual carriageway from Braintree to Stansted runs pararell so guess what bit of airspace Kojak with his kodak will occupy. They tend to fly between 4pm and 7pm weekdays and most sunny / dry weekends and just to be on the safe side when it's not airborne they put a scamera van between High Roding and Great Dunmow pointing just at the point where you come round the S bends onto the three mile straight
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[fat freddys cat]

There's no doubt that using a helicopter to catch speeders is expensive and that the revenue raised from speeding fines is never going to cover the operating costs of using aircraft in this way.

However the point of using measures like this is to reduce everyones speed and therefore the number of speed related accidents. Every fatal accident is estimated to cost the taxpayer an average of one million pounds.If using a helicopter prevents even a few accidents then it is money well spent.


On the carbon footprint issue, yes a helicopter uses a lot of fuel and isn't very green, however a vehicle traveling at 85mph on the motorway uses 25% more fuel than it would at 70mph, again if everyone slowed down due to the presence of the helicopter then there would be a net saving of fuel overall.

Police forces can only justify measures like this because there are so many people on the road who are willing to put their own lives and the lives of others at risk for an adrenaline rush. If you don't break the law then you have nothing to fear.


https://www.driveandsurvive.co.uk/cont5.htm

[Finglonga]

They have been using them up the peaks and in Wales for years.
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[petko17]

Well im form Slovakia ( economicly far behind UK) and we have helicopters checking speed for 3-4 years now, nothing new. Especialy bad for bikers. They are not chasing anyone, they are just in one place for half an hour, still, just observing and giving infos to the police on the roads, so they know who to stop, after about halfanhour they change position. They are always cops on both sides of road they watching. I get cought ones in the car, they have proof on videocamera and i was speeding 60km/h more than litmit ( 90kmh and i was going 150), so there are no points to gain( yet) and i got a big fine of 5000Sk, ( about 150 pounds) [ lot of money back home, half of month salary].
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