Small plane marked PATROL on west side of Indy

[fire1035]

Almost my entire life I have seen this plane flying around the west side of town. It is a single engine Cessna type plane with PATROL on the underside of the pilot's side wing. I have always wondered what it was and who flies it. Anybody know? I know it isn't the CIA or FBI because the plane is white not black.

 

[Scutter01]

Civil Air Patrol?

 

[Max Volume]

If you see it about once a month or so it is probably pipeline patrol. Supposedly they can know about leaks by discolored vegetation.

 

[shooter521]

Civil Air Patrol?

That or the State Police.

 

[JcJ]

If you see it about once a month or so it is probably pipeline patrol. Supposedly they can know about leaks by discolored vegetation.

+1 See them regularly on the west side.

 

[AFA1CY]

I would bet CAP

 

[jforrest]

I know in Michigan and some other states, they catch speeders using planes. If there are white lines painted perpendicular to the road in every 1/4 mile for a mile this might be what he is doing. The lines might also be 1/8 mile apart for half a mile. They time you with a stopwatch from the plane to determine your speed.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

It is probably the Mall Ninja. He upgraded from a golf cart to an airplane. He'll only be in it until jet-pack technology is perfected.

 

[Colt556]

I was in Civil Air Patrol as a kid. It was fun. I was also given a ticket in Florida after being "Clocked" by a low flying Cessna. It is the easiest type speeding ticket to get out of, to many variables. I see a low flying plane around Martinsville often on my way to Bloomington.

 

[mike8170]

I was fishing last Wednesday and saw the same type of plane over my property in northern Owen County. No reason for any type of patrol out there at this time of year. I am curious about this plane myself.

 

[Colt556]

My friend owns property out by Monrovia and we go shooting there sometimes. Usually after about 30-45 minutes of shooting a small plane will start circling over head. Never noticed any markings or call signs on it before. Makes ya wonder how much they do watch us.

 

[mettle]

I've seen a plane like that zooming over 37 here in Bloomington, just North of B-town a way though. It was almost doing figure eights up and down the highway. We watched as we drove S. and it was ahead of us. It was early last fall.

 

[Scutter01]

I've seen a plane like that zooming over 37 here in Bloomington, just North of B-town a way though. It was almost doing figure eights up and down the highway. We watched as we drove S. and it was ahead of us. It was early last fall.

Doing figure eights over a highway is a flight training technique. The highway makes a convenient straight line to use as a reference point. The object is to keep your turns to perfect half-circles even when there's a crosswind.

 

[DRob]

FEMA

It's the FEMA concentration camp patrol plane. It flies out of the Beech Grove railyard. If you see or hear this plane, be sure your tinfoil hat doesn't reflect sunlight toward it. They can zero-in on those reflections and broadcast old basketball games with Dick Vitale commentary directly into your brain.

 

[Scutter01]

FYI: The INGO Tactical hats have a built-in tinfoil lining so you can stay stylish even while reflecting the mind-control waves.

 

[El Cazador]

Pipeline patrol. I have a high school friend in Vincennes that flies one for Panhandle Eastern.

 

[fire1035]

It's the FEMA concentration camp patrol plane. It flies out of the Beech Grove railyard. If you see or hear this plane, be sure your tinfoil hat doesn't reflect sunlight toward it. They can zero-in on those reflections and broadcast old basketball games with Dick Vitale commentary directly into your brain.

I knew it.

In all seriousness I appreciate all the replies. The only thing that kind of concerned me is the rate of speed that they fly at low altitudes and some of the erratic turns they make. I know they aren't clocking anybody as they are not flying over any roads that you would be able to get up to any amount of speed for a long enough time before having to stop at a light again.

 

[shooter521]

My friend owns property out by Monrovia and we go shooting there sometimes. Usually after about 30-45 minutes of shooting a small plane will start circling over head. Never noticed any markings or call signs on it before. Makes ya wonder how much they do watch us.

I was helping conduct a pistol course at a remote site in southern IN in 2004. We had been doing live-fire stuff for about 2 hours on the morning of the second day, when we heard a helicopter approaching low, loud and fast; it was an IN State Police Jet Ranger. They hovered about 100 yards away while the guy in the door scoped us out with binoculars. We waved, and resumed our scheduled activities. They stayed and watched for a couple minutes, then left. We figure the folks living in the trailer at the bottom of the hill (who had been notified in writing of the scheduled course several weeks prior) got pissed off that we'd started shooting at 8am, and called the law.

 

[Fenway]

Gentlemen........... meet me in the survival forum. I think I saw this same plane flying near Beech Grove firearms on main street near the "train depot"! Bring rice and water.

 

[jrogers]

It's the FEMA concentration camp patrol plane. It flies out of the Beech Grove railyard. If you see or hear this plane, be sure your tinfoil hat doesn't reflect sunlight toward it. They can zero-in on those reflections and broadcast old basketball games with Dick Vitale commentary directly into your brain.

So did they scrap the black helicopters or what?