The area where I fly is rural and has very few planes of any size buzzing the skies plus my nearest NFZ is a helipad 40miles away. So I'm out flying along at my home field putting in some practice time and I hear this low rumble off in the distance. I can tell it's a large airplane, my ears perk up and I think to myself, what is that, where is that? Sounds like it's at low altitude. I'm scanning the skies but don't see anything, yet the sound continues getting louder and seems to be heading in my direction. So I decide to land my Spark to be on the safe side.
I waited in the field still listening to the aircraft coming my way. About 5 minutes later, a C-130 Hercules flies over the field I'm standing in at no more than 1500' AGL but it looked more like 500'! I could feel the vibration go through my boots as I stood there holding my Spark, watching this beast of a plane with its four big props buzz my head! Moral of the story, you just never know, fly safe!
P.S. There was no record of this flight anywhere including no NOTAM and no Class F had been set up. As I later found out, it was military spec ops doing a training exercise.
I waited in the field still listening to the aircraft coming my way. About 5 minutes later, a C-130 Hercules flies over the field I'm standing in at no more than 1500' AGL but it looked more like 500'! I could feel the vibration go through my boots as I stood there holding my Spark, watching this beast of a plane with its four big props buzz my head! Moral of the story, you just never know, fly safe!
P.S. There was no record of this flight anywhere including no NOTAM and no Class F had been set up. As I later found out, it was military spec ops doing a training exercise.