I have circled a bunch of them at minimum "legal" altitude and watched
them run for cover .

A month ago I asked the KPSM tower for permission to tour Great Bay at
600 feet so I could look over my house. Since there was no one on the
water, I went down to about 100 feet, but being an anal type I bumped
up to 600 to go over the house and trees, and I stayed at that
altitude while crossing a little peninsula to the north. I didn't want
to go higher because I couldn't talk to Pease with my handheld radio
while down low, and I didn't want to get near pattern altitude and
scare someone.

When I got home, my daughter began to tell me about this Piper Cub
that had buzzed the house and then crossed the road to the peninsula
so low that it actually *went between the trees*, and had the
high-topped van that was passing at about that time been on the road,
the Cub would have hit it.

I heard her out because I was sure that she was speaking of another
Cub that is known to do buzz jobs of the bay, looking for eagles, but
in the end I realized she was talking about me. So here is a person
with superlative vision and lots of experience judging distances and
vectors on water. Yet she was drawing 600 feet of altitude down to
below 60 feet, and in her enthusiasm to about 10 feet.

How likely is it that someone can read the numbers at 600 feet?


all the best -- Dan Ford
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