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UFO Hunters... OHARE!

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RonCollins said:
My problems with this episode are varried. Why does the show feel the need to "investigate" flying a plane through the airspace?
The plane (Cessna 172) has a transponder and is in constant contact with the tower. Jets are fast. The top speed of that little Cesna is less that 158 knots, the cruise speed was probably about 100 knots. At 2000ft the stall speed of a 747 is about 185 knots. So when flying a cessna through that airspace you have to be in contact with the tower so they can slow incomming traffic and create a hole for your little slow plane to come in. I have no idea what this experiment shows. The premise was "lets see what it takes to get into the airspace undetected". Rest assured, if a UFO suddenly transformed itself into a Cessna 172 with a transponder and communicated with the tower, it wasn't getting anywhere near that airport without someone knowing! The whole thing was stupid.

They did a good job showing why a guy in the tower may not have been able to see the object. However, they did a shitty job asking the tower guy about it. Show him the report, ask him to refute the angle of site theory. Instead they came into this totally unprepared, as usual.

At least Billy boy didn't acuse anyone of being an alien-human hybrid. Although, the name of the espisode was "Aliens at the Airport!". Anyone want to bet that he had something to do with that?
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The plane thing is to make it look like they're doing something. In a bunch of episodes, they've flown planes to trace a flight path. Utterly useless, but makes for good TV.
 
RonCollins said:
They did a good job showing why a guy in the tower may not have been able to see the object. However, they did a shitty job asking the tower guy about it. Show him the report, ask him to refute the angle of site theory. Instead they came into this totally unprepared, as usual.
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Amen.

Also, whenever dealing with the topic of airplanes and radar, I would like to see an examination of whether or not a target doing 0 knots would have been filtered out by the radar system's software. NARCAP's exhaustive examination of the radar systems that cover O'Hare include this note:

"Pulse Doppler MTD on all surveillance radars studied allows sub-clutter visibility of moving targets, but a stationary target might be rejected by the Doppler filters." (page 81)
 
Yeah, I happened to catch that show. To me, everything they presented could have been covered in about 8 minutes, total. The whole Cessna bit was worthless filler. Playing the same tower audio 15 times was pointless. I heard it the first time.

It was cool to see Biedny's name on the screen for a couple of seconds, but really, the episode was pretty worthless. 90% fluff/filler and almost no substance.

I was, however, not at all surprised.
 
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