Aerial mapping imagery criticized as security threat

aloft said:
Interesting article on CNN.com. Quite a few JC'ers including myself have shot the very imagery being criticized, the oblique low-altitude "bird's eye view" shots licensed to Microsoft's Virtual Earth project.

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I knew you were part of, and supporting, "The MAN".......:Big Brother. :D
 
Oh, somebody's watching you alright!

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You can clearly read the "USAF" on our C-5s with that website, and you can almost read the tail numbers. It's that good. Makes you wonder what else is out there that's even better that we don't all have access to ;)
 
I've heard that *they* are using unmarked aircraft with plainsclothes pilots to target aerial photo ops. Be careful out there.

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By Mike M. Ahlers
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One is a assemblyman in California; the other a piano tuner in Pennsylvania...
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I try not to be a grammar nazi, but this guy gets paid to write. When a word starts with a vowel sound, you're supposed to use the indefinite article "an," not "a."
 
SteveC said:
I've heard that *they* are using unmarked aircraft with plainsclothes pilots to target aerial photo ops. Be careful out there.
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Well seeing how there was over 50 of us at any one time constantly moving around, it would take a lot of work.....
caliginousface said:
*They* are doing what to aerial photo ops? Arresting, molesting, intercepting? :D
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I can attest to the fact that while working aerial survey I was never molested. Other's mileages may have varied. :D
The Article said:
The operators of Three Mile Island, the plant closest to Portzline's home, say they are not worried about the online imagery.
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Oddly enough I shot the imagery of that plant last year. So yes, I am your big brother.
 
I was wondering how long it would take for the media to come up with a story about this stuff.

Way longer than I thought actually.
 
I think the piano tuner should stick to his real job. No sense in him bundling his panties over the images when a typical FBO would provide the equivalent service. I don't think a $100 aircraft rental would stop a nuclear plot.
 
SteveC said:
Did you actually fly into it?
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Yep

It was kinda IMC already, so at first I didn't notice that it was the steam because we couldn't really see the plant. I thought it was just a cumulus cloud. Until we go into it and it gets bumpy and HOT.

Then I figured it out and got my camera ready to take the pictures.
 
tlewis95 said:
It was kinda IMC already, so at first I didn't notice that it was the steam because we couldn't really see the plant. I thought it was just a cumulus cloud. Until we go into it and it gets bumpy and HOT.
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When I was flying out of one of the DC3, I was bitching about thermals one day. So, my instructor at the time told me, you want to see some thermals? I'll show you thermals. We flew over a power plant.

Those were thermals.

Of course, he told me not to linger too long over the plant. We flew over it and went on our way.
 
tonyw said:
When I was flying out of one of the DC3, I was bitching about thermals one day. So, my instructor at the time told me, you want to see some thermals? I'll show you thermals. We flew over a power plant.

Those were thermals.

Of course, he told me not to linger too long over the plant. We flew over it and went on our way.
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Oh ya, I have soared off of it in a glider too. :nana2:

Best climb of the day by far every time my route goes past it.
 
tlewis95 said:
Yep

It was kinda IMC already, so at first I didn't notice that it was the steam because we couldn't really see the plant. I thought it was just a cumulus cloud. Until we go into it and it gets bumpy and HOT.

Then I figured it out and got my camera ready to take the pictures.
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The questions is, did you take your Prom date through that hot, steamy, turbulence???:rawk:
 
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