Florida pilot stops a robber, by spotting him from the air.

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Pretty cool story, link here.

Pilot David Zehntner was flying his personal plane from his vacation home in Franklin, N.C., back to his main residence in LaBelle, Fla., when he flew over his Florida home while approaching the airport and saw something unusual.
"We have a place in Franklin, N.C., and fly back and forth," Zehntner told ABCNews.com. "We were returning from Christmas in North Carolina, and returning to our main home in Florida. Every time we fly in, which we do quite a bit, the approach pattern to land in LaBelle goes over our home. We always make a low altitude circle over our property.
"At about 800 feet, we fly over our house. We look out and say, 'There's a truck in our driveway. So I literally drop down to 300 feet, that's extremely low. I'm circling and watching the guy walking around and looking in our windows and testing the doors to see if he could get in."
About the fourth time Zehntner circled above his house, he noticed the thief look directly up at his plane, a Cessna 182 Skylane. But the man, despite the aircraft being right overhead, still attached Zehntner's small utility trailer to his hitch and take off with it.
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Lefty said:
I read this earlier and thought it was kind of a cool story as well. Now we just wait for the feds to show up on his doorstep and bust him for his unsafe operation of an aircraft via self incrimination.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Really dumb move on his part.
 
How low can you get in order to see someone by your window... 300 feet, tight circle. If he Stalled... Kaboom! U, mom, and burglar dead. No bueno!

Pretty cool story nonetheless.

My beef is.... HOW did he really know that was a burglar? and not his mommy's secret boy-toy ;) coming over.... :cool::p:D

 
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