Skylune wrote:

I saw a few kids flying kites over the weekend. It occurred to me: What
if they were flying the kites real high in the vicinity of GA airports? I
don't think there are any laws about kite flying off airport property.


I used to fly RC planes at a park that was with in 3 miles of KOKC.
When the real planes flew over, they were higher than the RC planes.
However, the typical traffic patters didn't bring planes over the park,
so it was pretty rare to have one directly over head. I wonder if the
controllers saw us on radar? The engine was the only thing in most
planes that would reflect radar and they aren't very big. Anyway, no
one from the FAA ever came by to complain and we used to fly there on a
pretty regular basis. There were kids flying kites at that same park, as
I recall the RC planes were usually quite a bit higher than the kites,
however there was this one time an RC helicopter impacted a kite, the
kite's death was instantaneous, the helicopter died shortly after, when
it fell to the ground. I'm sure it was a spectacular impact, but I
didn't turn my head quick enough to see it

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Chris W
KE5GIX

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