Cops are now flying planes to clock your speed on the ground.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...ne.html?al=158

 

This is not something new, to quote the article you linked to " The patrolmen’s aviation division was founded in 1948"

 

+1...the VA State Police have been doing it for years. They even have signs posted on the side of the highway.

 

Wow, that's insane. It's the first time I ever heard of it, I guess I should delete this thread now...

 

What I used to see on the NJ turnpike was Hwy maintenance vans on overpasses shooting radar for a trooper half a mile up the road. But the money they can make with a plane more than pays for the program and the tickets are based on math which is hard to beat.

 

That article was about the Ohio State troopers. I was caught by the Sheboygan County police (Wisconsin) back in the mid-80's. They were using an airplane to check the speed of drivers going through the small town of Waldo. The speed drops from 55 mph to 35 for a distance of about 200 yrds.

 

Add another to that tally. From my years of living in California, Illinois, and Missouri....this has been going on for as long as I can remember. They post signs in the areas where they most commonly conduct this.

 

Been happening in Florida for at least 25 years!

 

unlike NJ, it's pretty hard to get a speeding ticket in FL. Just slow down when school starts up, and various holidays when they're cracking down.

 

I have family in Sheboygan!

 

yup. old news to me! HOWEVER, its fairley inaccurate, so a lot of times you can argue it

 

here's a good question, can they still check speed by airplane at night??

 

How do you figure? How much does it cost to fuel, store, maintain, and insure a plane? It's not cheap. Buying a plane is actually the cheap part. Keeping it is expensive.

 

I assume the key thing is volume, If they can get 100-$150 tickets in a day that would add up.

 

I wouldn't think so. It would be too hard to identify the correct car.
My question is, if you take a airplane speed ticket to court, do both the flying officer and the officer that wrote the ticket have to be present. If just the ticketing officer was there, the ticket was wrote on hear-say evidence and should be thrown out.

 

that is a good question. I just know there are other ways to get out of it...my friends bf did it not too long ago!

 

they've been doing this on the roads out to Vegas for EVER.

 

And the motivation for doing this is because it is a sh*tload more fun (and profitable) than going after REAL criminals Speeders have reached the equivalent value of terrorists with weapons of mass destruction (oh ya, that's right........there weren't actually any weapons of mass destruction, were there?). The real reason there are accidents is that 95% of people suck at driving regardless of the speed.

 

All you have to do is drive faster than the plane can fly, just like in "Gone in 60 Seconds".

 

140... 160... he's gone!

 

 

haha. I love that picture. It gets used all the time for stuff like that. I'd probably crap my pants if i ever saw anything like that!!!!

 

i hate cops