Hello everyone,
I was at a guerilla plot of mine recently. It is not at all unusual for planes to be flying around at various altitudes. Usually propeller type planes, I see them often. I'm told their gas company planes, but I don't know for sure.
Anyway, on one occasion there was a plane was flying particularly low. I'd say maybe only 500 feet off the ground. Lowest I've seen a plane there. He made maybe 4 or 5 passes, circling the area I was in (I'd say he was circling an area roughly 4 football fields in size). Now I was on one end of the area he was circling, basically right beside part of his flight path.
I've never been in a plane at that altitude or even a propeller plane at all, but I have to imagine he saw me. The area I was in wasn't super exposed (it's only maybe a 100 sq feet area with trees/tall vegetation on all sides) and I'm not sure how much he could decipher/see from his point of view. Tiny seedlings at the time, but in clear plastic cups and chicken wire cages, each with a weathered for a few years wooden stake. Ground is covered in clover, so no giant black dirt circles (only black dirt circles roughly 3 inches in diameter around the tiny seedlings). Very tiny plot, too. Only four small plants.
I've seen planes there fly in circles before, but never at that low of an altitude and never that close to me/my plot.
This was several weeks ago now. Plants are still there, cages and everything intact. No signs of any foot traffic in the plot. Haven't had any run-ins or anything like that.
What would you guys make of this? Anything? Anybody familiar with the view from a low-flying plane?
Would you abandon the plot? It's a pretty significant chunk of my harvest that comes from this plot, and it's otherwise very secure and have never had any issues. Also been using it for several years, so the soil is nice and built up.
I was at a guerilla plot of mine recently. It is not at all unusual for planes to be flying around at various altitudes. Usually propeller type planes, I see them often. I'm told their gas company planes, but I don't know for sure.
Anyway, on one occasion there was a plane was flying particularly low. I'd say maybe only 500 feet off the ground. Lowest I've seen a plane there. He made maybe 4 or 5 passes, circling the area I was in (I'd say he was circling an area roughly 4 football fields in size). Now I was on one end of the area he was circling, basically right beside part of his flight path.
I've never been in a plane at that altitude or even a propeller plane at all, but I have to imagine he saw me. The area I was in wasn't super exposed (it's only maybe a 100 sq feet area with trees/tall vegetation on all sides) and I'm not sure how much he could decipher/see from his point of view. Tiny seedlings at the time, but in clear plastic cups and chicken wire cages, each with a weathered for a few years wooden stake. Ground is covered in clover, so no giant black dirt circles (only black dirt circles roughly 3 inches in diameter around the tiny seedlings). Very tiny plot, too. Only four small plants.
I've seen planes there fly in circles before, but never at that low of an altitude and never that close to me/my plot.
This was several weeks ago now. Plants are still there, cages and everything intact. No signs of any foot traffic in the plot. Haven't had any run-ins or anything like that.
What would you guys make of this? Anything? Anybody familiar with the view from a low-flying plane?
Would you abandon the plot? It's a pretty significant chunk of my harvest that comes from this plot, and it's otherwise very secure and have never had any issues. Also been using it for several years, so the soil is nice and built up.
