Went up to London on Saturday, might have inadvertently strayed over 70mph, not sure ...

There was a chopper hovering in a stationary position just south of the M4 around J14ish, what was it doing there?

Surely, they can't measure speeds reliably from choppers, or can they...

Imagine how much that must cost, and therefore how many people they have to catch in order to fund it !!!

Hopefully I'm completely wrong and someone can enlighten me.

Alex

 

They can do it but Thames Valley don't bother

 

Ah, might have been Wiltshire, not exactly sure where I saw it!

Thanks anyway, anyone else got any info?

 

Easy... they just time you between bridges or use the squares in the middle of the lanes.

 

It is well known that people straying to 70.1mph are complete scum of the earth. However, with the increase in websites such as pepipoo etc helping people get out of fixed penalty fines, and impending possible challenges to the validity of previous convictions, Tony Bliar and his friends have decided that stronger and more draconian measures will be required to cut down on this. Therefore, anyone seen to be exceding 70mph will be greeted with a sidewinder missile (launched from the Apache helicopter). These are significantly harder to dodge than NIPs, and statistics also suggest that people are significantly less likely to complain on public forums after recieving a sidewinder.

 

ROFLMAO @ hades

 

no I was on the m56/60 & 54 on saturday but nowhere near the m4...so your ok

chop

 

Hopefully it was just a TV crew or something. Fingers crossed I won't be reporting back in 3 weeks time!

 

surely youd need something tv or laser guided...sidewinders are surely too dangerous...imagine the outcry if using an almost indicriminate heat seeking missile...imagine the court cases...?!?!

 

heres a thing though...if you can get your hands on a radar or laser speed detector, point it at the chopper and if hes got countermeasures on board (not sure if the police do), hell think al qaeda are about to fire a stinger up his ****...!!!

 

They can work out your speed from a helicopter and I think you will find operating the helicopter for this is cheap! Mainly because if the Helicopter is chartered, like a lot are, it is contracted to do a certain amount of hours. Whether it does those hours or not the price is the same. Therefore if towards the end of the time period the helicopter has not flown the relevant number hours it can go and catch speeders for the number of unflown hours and the cost is nothing.

I have seen Sussex Police using theirs to catch speeders but they had cars on the ground to stop people after they have been caught from the air. So not sure they will send you an NIP.