A different themed thread for a change… and different aircraft to go with it too.
I thought that it may be interesting to post a pic/pics, of our local radio traffic watch aircraft.
For example here in London, the main radio station is Capital FM (95.8), and they call their traffic watch, the “flying eye”. But unlike the usual helicopter type of eye in the sky, they use a small aircraft, not sure what type it is, due to the fact that small prop aircraft, aren’t really in my area.
Pic of the “flying eye” below.
Looking forward to seeing you eyes in the sky.
By: Bhoy - 6th May 2003 at 00:58
Is Ian Skelley not on the board down Edminceton Drive way? In which case, I hardly see Tiger having much to do with it…
Although, Tiger’s show was well past the Eye in the Sky time slot, surely (I don’t think George Bowie’d have a problem with it… ;)).
By: wysiwyg - 5th May 2003 at 21:11
A few months back I posted that helicopters didn’t tend to be used as ‘flying eye’ aircraft in the UK due to high cost but I’m pleased to say I’ve been proved wrong.
By: Ren Frew - 5th May 2003 at 18:33
Ah yes… the Irn Bru Eye In The Sky, a Bell Jet Ranger flown by the charismatic “Captain George (RIP).
Clyde Helicopters no longer provide the service for Radio Clyde. It’s now a fixed wing service operated by I don’t know who ?
There was a time when a local and well known Glasgow car dealers wanted to be the eye in the sky main sponsor. The dealer was the Ian Skelley Group. Unfortunately the service would have been know as the “Skelley Eye In the Sky”. Even Tiger Tim would have had a hard time introducing that one !:D
By: Bhoy - 5th May 2003 at 17:14
I believe Radio Clyde used to use this ‘Bell Mob that got knocked out of Europe by a Czech pub team’ (that’d be a Bell R*nger, then…;) ) for traffic reports.
By: T5 - 4th May 2003 at 19:10
We only have your bog standard AA vehicle reporting back to local radio stations…
ABOVE: An AA Patrol Man
By: Saab 2000 - 4th May 2003 at 09:59
Only “Eye in the sky” I could think of is the Channel Islands Airsearch Islander.
By: skycruiser - 4th May 2003 at 04:36
It’s a GA-7 cougar.
I have a few hours in one of these machines. Not many of them around.
I also nearly ended up flying this “eye in the sky” a few years ago.
By: EGNM - 3rd May 2003 at 22:55
looks like a Beech 76 Duchess – dont quote me tho – up here in Yorkshire we dont have helos – we just have the AA roadwatch
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