Air Force One just flew past my house

Jeremy

Jeremy

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I just saw one of the Air Force One planes fly over my house very low.

All morning I've been hearing helicopters and all sorts of low planes flying over. Yesterday, an F-22 flew at like 1500ft over my head while I was mowing the lawn. Scared the crap out of me.

What's going on???

- Oh yeah, and I'm in Southern New Jersey, just above Cape May County.
 
Jeremy said:
I just saw one of the Air Force One planes fly over my house very low.

All morning I've been hearing helicopters and all sorts of low planes flying over. Yesterday, an F-22 flew at like 1500ft over my head while I was mowing the lawn. Scared the crap out of me.

What's going on???

- Oh yeah, and I'm in Southern New Jersey, just above Cape May County.
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They fly approaches at ACY all the time.
 
Oh... Okay. It didn't look like it was coming to or from ACY though. It was heading around 345 degrees. I just looked on Google Maps and from the direction it came from, it's about the opposite of ACY.

Anyway, what do I know. Why do they fly there all the time? I'd like to see that.
 
Opposite ACY, Really? 345 sounds like a heading towards Cedar lake to set up for an approach to 13.
 
I don't know, but I do know that was the approximate heading. I'm not a pilot and I don't know anything about approaches to ACY. Why do they fly there, though? I've talked to ACY tower controllers and they never said anything about Air Force One landing there, or any 747.
 
Jeremy said:
I don't know, but I do know that was the approximate heading. I'm not a pilot and I don't know anything about approaches to ACY. Why do they fly there, though? I've talked to ACY tower controllers and they never said anything about Air Force One landing there, or any 747.
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They fly there to shoot approaches. I see them at least 4-5 times a year, and I'm not even looking for them.
 
Jeremy said:
I don't know, but I do know that was the approximate heading. I'm not a pilot and I don't know anything about approaches to ACY. Why do they fly there, though? I've talked to ACY tower controllers and they never said anything about Air Force One landing there, or any 747.
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Good, they probably won't. ;)
 
Yeah, I just checked again, and the way it was heading it would set up at around Cedar Lake. But it couldn't have been more than maybe, and I mean MAYBE, 5,000 feet.

Now that I'm thinking of it, I'm not sure if I saw that 2nd story part in the front area... I only got to see it for like 10 seconds... It might have looked more like this... Which might be a little more weird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-137C_SAM_27000
 
Jeremy said:
What's a "shoot approach"?...
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practice landing with the aid of the various navigation equipment available; both in the plane and on the airfield.

The instructions for such a landing are on 'approach' plate.

You are 'approaching' the field.

Hence, shooting the approach.

Transition from cruise flight to descent and landing.

I am sure the 'book' answer is somewhere in there.:)
 
Ohhh, practicing... Got it...

But I think he was a little low considering he had a long way to go to Cedar Lake, and an even longer way back to ACY.
 
Jeremy said:
Ohhh, practicing... Got it...

But I think he was a little low considering he had a long way to go to Cedar Lake, and an even longer way back to ACY.
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No need to climb above the initial approach altitude if you're just going to be making big circles in the sky for a little while. And believe me, Cape May is not far from ACY.
 
Huh??? Cedar Lake in Cape May?... Never seen/heard of that... I thought you were talking about Cedar Lake in Newtonville/Buena. That's almost perfectly inline with runway 13/31 at ACY. NOW I'm confused. And the airplane wasn't heading towards Cape May at ALL.

Anyway, I didn't realize Cedar Lake was just north of Buena until just now. I thought it was near Salem or something.
 
Sorry, I REALLY wish I could've gotten pictures of this, but again, since it was low, I only saw it for about 10 seconds, and I didn't have my phone on me. I really wish I had them, because my Dad and brother don't believe me.
 
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