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whaletacochamp t1_j7r5u6d wrote

Wtf….I live in Fletcher and have been home all day and haven’t heard a thing.

That being said, every once in awhile a jet that appears to maybe be privately owned will buzz the mountain behind my house top gun flyby/fortunate son style. I’ve felt like the Vietcong out in my garden all tranquil and quiet, and then within 5 second a very low roar becomes ear piercing and a fighter jet screams over close enough to touch it. Gone and silent just as fast as it came. Because of the topography where I live it will literally go from silent to ear piercing fighter jet noise in seconds. Kinda cool honestly.

Whereabouts in Fletcher? I’m curious now if someone nearby has a private jet that they fly a lot. Also find it funny that I grew up in Vt and barely knew of Fletcher, now I live here and seem to randomly find people who also live in Fletcher quite often.

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KITTYONFYRE t1_j7sudf9 wrote

you can see planes on sites like flightradar24, it'll tell you who owns them and everything. plus how high they actually are and where they're coming from/going - you might be surprised to see how many planes are coming from/to Europe!

very, very unlikely that's a private jet though. I mean it depends how high they actually are, but a private jet flown by their owner is incredibly rare even among Uber rich who charter private jets. and none who have them are gonna be fucking around at low altitude - definitely sounds like military training.

the only one I know of in VT is the CEO of miracle grow who has a couple hangers in Springfield. private jet and a couple other cool planes

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whaletacochamp t1_j7u25kb wrote

To be clear I don’t mean private jet like swanky jet liner. I mean like single seat fighter style jet.

I had this discussion with someone else recently and they mentioned that, apparently, there is someone or a few someone’s in the general area who own small training type jets.

The low altitude flight does raise the question of legality if not for training. But I can tell you the jet that I saw is not an American jet commonly used for training in our area (def not an F15, 16, 18, 22, 35 etc) almost looked like a Mig.

Hasn’t happened since but if it does I’ll check the flight radar.

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KITTYONFYRE t1_j7uoq0w wrote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_L-39_Albatros

Might be one of these, which would lend credence to your "rich local" hypothesis. Still, these burn hundreds of gallons of jet fuel/hour (at like $8/gal), not to mention maintenance costs. so definitely not just normal rich person, lol. but if it was one of these, it'll definitely show up on flightradar24. sometimes military jets don't. if it doesn't show up, that doesn't mean it's definitely military (down low, radar coverage gets sketchy - generally I can't establish contact with Boston til ~3,500 ft or so).

also, legality wise, for uncongested/rural areas you just need to be 500 ft from any person or structure, so pretty lax. that doesn't mean it's smart to do, though, unless it's a training exercise where you have to take that risk.

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whaletacochamp t1_j7up4je wrote

That’s almost exactly what it looked like (but a different color, grey/blue I believe)

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j7uoruu wrote

Aero L-39 Albatros

>The Aero L-39 Albatros is a high-performance jet trainer designed and produced in Czechoslovakia by Aero Vodochody. It is the most widely used jet trainer in the world; in addition to performing basic and advanced pilot training, it has also flown combat missions in a light-attack role. Unusually, the aircraft never received a NATO reporting name. The L-39 Albatros was designed during the 1960s as a successor to the Aero L-29 Delfín, an early jet-powered principal training aircraft.

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