Virginia Airborn VASCAR Pics!

[stealthJamal]

[RadarRick]

We had VASCAR up North on a horror stretch of highway the was so safe, you could fall a sleep for 5 mins and still be ok :shock:
How ever, this was a long, long time ago, may be 15 to 20 years even. Our lines were marked 1klm apart though. I think after a while, it just wasn't productive enough for the greedy Govenment and Police. It was later scrapped soon after it's inception.
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[StlouisX50]

Well, a note to scanner users. I'd make sure to find all of the frequencies out for the particular area you will be traveling and program ALL of them into the scanner. A police tactic used is to switch frequencies every now and then and throw people off, as well as the frequency might already be in use.

Some times you will hear them on 155.475 nationwide but it's rare.

The best way to program the scanner is:

- State in one bank due to all the possible frequencies
- County in the same bank as towns/cities
- Town/City in the same bank as counties

This way if there are contracts made with the state or county to do special air vascar you wont miss them. The rule to not getting caught is to plan ahead throughly or don't do it.

[NikkaLB23]

I was in Leesburg and Sterling, in Northern VA (NOVA), and I was sitting in the car just waiting on some people and I saw this helicopter just flying around. I thought this was weird because I just got off the main road and I noticed cops just sitting and wait not even hidden or anything, anyway well I was waiting in the car for about 20 minutes and the helicopter was just circling in the same path right over the road.

What I think they might have done was from the light, whcih most traffic comes from, they use the light as their starting point and then there is another light about oh I say 1/2 miles where then cops were.

Man driving today was hell COPS were EVERYWHERE, local cops and state cops everywhere.

[dreamer]

I can tell you fellas one thing.

Traveling multiple times to ski resorts every winter, I do see many planes on I-64 west. I do not care if I am crossing white lines or not, once I see any plane within visual proximity, my arse is slowing down to 75.

I remember one time averaging 80-120 right before the rest stop I saw a slowly rolling trooper on the right shoulder. Looked like he was waiting to pull out after somebody.

Couple seconds earlier, I have had done a fast burst[this was right before the exit 107, the downhill section of 64 west.], and needless to say pulled to rest stop and wasted 10 minutes there. Porsche that was behind me did the same, but left after a minute or so.

But overall, I see those planes every winter, might not be a vascar, but I do see them alot.
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As for scanners, been told and researched that every county have switched to digital trunking system.

[GTO_04]

As for scanners, been told and researched that every county have switched to digital trunking system.

Digital trunked systems can be scanned with the right scanner (Uniden BC396T or Radio Shack Pro-96). Also the VSP are the only agency likely to use air enforcment. Have they gone digital yet? I remember reading that they were going to in the future.

GTO_04

[proudNMAmember]

All this talk about VASCAR, where's alpinestars at?

[Glass]

Also the VSP are the only agency likely to use air enforcment.

Airborne VASCAR is utilized by the New York State Police on the northern part of Interstate 87.

[pianobomber]

Airborne Vascar is used here in Northern Cali, but mostly in the summer though and they usually target those who are towing boats from Shasta Lake. They want to make sure vehicles hauling a boat are going 55 on I5. It is quite interesting as you will see 5 to 7 CHP cars parked on the on ramps waiting for the call from above. And yes, they snag speeders very rapidly this way.

[Esoterica]

They have very heavy use of this by the NHP in Nevada all over the place on the highways, they use it in great volume and they write one heck of a lot of tickets. I've gotten 2 within one week, both by VASCAR and both for doing 80MPH in a 75MPH rural zone. Just 5 miles over, at least the tickets were only $67.00 each and since it was in a rural zone there were no points against my license and my insurance company will never find out about them. On the tickets they indicate "NRS SPEEDING IN RURAL AREA", fortunately the Officer probably didn't have to indicate that on the ticket, but his doing so did make for a huge savings in the cost of the ticket and the no points against my DL

At the top of the ticket is the date and time of 9:44 AM then it has "[X] Aircraft Clock #: 73", if this means I'm the 73rd ticket they clocked that morning already I believe it. 8 other cars were pulled over on the road with me, all getting tickets. This is a normal thing to see in the mornings, usually before 11AM, not very often after, on the side of Nevada Highways.

2 days later, on a different stretch of highway I got the second ticket of my life, same exact situation and again for only going 5 MPH over the PSL.

I question the accuracy of this technique though, in actuality I was probably doing more like 10MPH over the PSL, which is normal driving for me anywhere, at least their inaccuracy fell to my favor.

The markings look a little different though than the original posters pictures show for anyone driving or planning on driving in Nevada you may want to make note of that.

Here the white line running across the road do not go all the way across the road surface, they only mark on each side of the road on the paved shoulder. There are no roadside warning signs indicating the areas. Some will have painted immediately in front of the first white line a white silhouette of an airplane. You have to know what your looking for and really be looking hard to spot the markers or you can easily miss them.

They are also almost always located on a stretch of highway where you can't see the large group of awaiting patrol cars down the road waiting for you. Like before a hill or underpass where your view of the waiting area is obstructed.

I've never seen them doing this past about 11AM in the morning, they never seem to do it when there is snow on the road covering their white marks, and for obvious reasons they don't do it at night. I've never seen any of the actual planes, though they can easily hide or blend in with surrounding mountains here very easily.

The GPS marking capabilities of the Escort 9500i is certainly great for marking where these white lines are on the highway so you can watch out for them. Prior to this all I could do was try to remember where each one was which doesn't work well in the desert that lacks reference points.

I think they use this method here because it's likely their only working alternative. A lot of the highway is wide open with nothing to hide behind and you can easily spot a car parked on the roadside many many miles down the way ahead of you. On Hwy 80 in Northern Nevada running from California to Utah most of the on coming traffic lane is separated by about a mile. So any NHP coming down the highway toward you would never come closer than a mile from you. All they have to their advantage are the few hills or overpasses that you can't see beyond. The posted speed limit is 75Mph already so its like our own Nevada Autobahn out here. Who ever the civil engineer was that designed Hwy 80 here in Nevada obviously wanted to make sure he could fly on it with little risk of police advantages to stop him.

I haven't seen them doing this in my area of Northern California that I regularly drive in. Here the CHP set on the roadside and shoot laser, at least they are very, very predictable, they always set in the same exact spots at the same exact times of day both on 395 North heading from Reno to Susanville and I80 from Reno to Sacramento.

Again, the GPS mark feature of the Escort 9500i works great for marking these locations in California where both suction cups on your windshield and laser jammers are illegal and roadside features are hard to find since its mostly rural and one area looks like the next.

After two tickets in that same week I went out and bought this 9500i, then I learned how they were actually writing these tickets and all about VASCAR. It made me glad I bought a model with the GPS mark feature because I almost bought a different RD that didn't have this feature and it would have been worthless to me.