Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 12, 2022 14:14:04 GMT 12
Sounds low, but ag pilots fly this low all the time. I guess not so close to houses though. 
Plane Flown At 15ft In Built-Up District
(New Zealand Press Association)
HASTINGS, April 19. While carrying out spraying operations on February 1, a Hastings pilot, John Richard Grimes, flew a Tiger Moth aircraft over a builtiup area at a height of 15ft, said Mr R. G. Gallen, for the Civil Aviation Administration in the Magistrate’s Court at Hastings yesterday. Grimes pleaded guilty to flying an aircraft over a populous area at a height of less than 1000 ft. Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M., convicted him and fined him £5O. Mr Gallen said the police were notified by a Mr Hammond on the morning of February 1 that an aircraft was spraying a small section of raspberries in Collinge road at an estimated height of 15ft.
Mr Harlow: At what? Mr Gallen said one side of the road was bounded by telephone poles and wires and the other side by power lines and houses. At no stage had the aircraft flown at a height of more than 60ft. Mr I. T. Heath said that Grimes was a former flying instructor and T.E.A.L. pilot, with 9000 hours’ flying experience. The low-level flying was not really as dangerous as it looked from ground level. The Magistrate said: "We have to discourage this type of flying. No matter how competent the pilot is it does not give him licence to fly under 1000 ft in a built-up area.”
PRESS, 20 JULY 1961
Plane Flown At 15ft In Built-Up District
(New Zealand Press Association)
HASTINGS, April 19. While carrying out spraying operations on February 1, a Hastings pilot, John Richard Grimes, flew a Tiger Moth aircraft over a builtiup area at a height of 15ft, said Mr R. G. Gallen, for the Civil Aviation Administration in the Magistrate’s Court at Hastings yesterday. Grimes pleaded guilty to flying an aircraft over a populous area at a height of less than 1000 ft. Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M., convicted him and fined him £5O. Mr Gallen said the police were notified by a Mr Hammond on the morning of February 1 that an aircraft was spraying a small section of raspberries in Collinge road at an estimated height of 15ft.
Mr Harlow: At what? Mr Gallen said one side of the road was bounded by telephone poles and wires and the other side by power lines and houses. At no stage had the aircraft flown at a height of more than 60ft. Mr I. T. Heath said that Grimes was a former flying instructor and T.E.A.L. pilot, with 9000 hours’ flying experience. The low-level flying was not really as dangerous as it looked from ground level. The Magistrate said: "We have to discourage this type of flying. No matter how competent the pilot is it does not give him licence to fly under 1000 ft in a built-up area.”
PRESS, 20 JULY 1961
