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Looking down the stacks

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Over Lake Juliette - Robert W Scherer Power Plant

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Is that a nuclear power plant? Just wondering.
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From Wikipedia:

The Robert W Scherer Power Plant (also known as Plant Scherer) is a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia, just north of Macon, Georgia, in the United States. The plant has four units, each producing 880 megawatts. The plant is named after the former chairman and chief executive officer of Georgia Power. [1] It has two 1,001-foot (305 m) chimneys, the first built in 1982 and the second in 1986. Plant Scherer is the fifth largest electric generating plant in the United States.[2]

The plant's location is along the flight path of many commercial airline flights originating from or terminating at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, and is a prominent feature on the landscape, easily visible during daylight flights.
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Is that the one at Milledgeville, or a different one?
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CTLSi wrote:
N918KT wrote:Is that a nuclear power plant? Just wondering.
A nuke plant has cooling towers shaped like an uneven hourglass. this is a coal plant, or oil fired. anyway, sometimes local authorities get pissie and go after you for flying over power plants because they think you might want to drop something on them.
They can get as bent out of shape as they want to...if there is nothing on the sectional requesting or requiring anything around the plant, their complaints are as meaningless as any other building owner that doesn't like airplanes overhead.
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Tell that to the glider pilot who was apprehended and held for two days without charges after overflying an uncharted and un-NOTAMed "restricted area".
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drseti wrote:Tell that to the glider pilot who was apprehended and held for two days without charges after overflying an uncharted and un-NOTAMed "restricted area".
I'd take the settlement from that civil rights lawsuit. :wink:
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CTLSi wrote:
N918KT wrote:Is that a nuclear power plant? Just wondering.
A nuke plant has cooling towers shaped like an uneven hourglass. this is a coal plant, or oil fired. anyway, sometimes local authorities get pissie and go after you for flying over power plants because they think you might want to drop something on them.
Hyperboloid cooling towers can be used in all types of power plants, not just nukes (and not all nuke plants use them). Local conditions dictate.
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Unfortunately, Andy, the gentleman passed away before he could bring his case against the local police. This incident was all over the AOPA website and magazine, for those not familiar with it.
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drseti wrote:Unfortunately, Andy, the gentleman passed away before he could bring his case against the local police. This incident was all over the AOPA website and magazine, for those not familiar with it.
Yeah, I remember that. Too bad, I think he had a good case against an overreaching Sheriff's Dept.
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MrMorden wrote:
drseti wrote:Unfortunately, Andy, the gentleman passed away before he could bring his case against the local police. This incident was all over the AOPA website and magazine, for those not familiar with it.
Yeah, I remember that. Too bad, I think he had a good case against an overreaching Sheriff's Dept.
Didn't they make him waive his right to sue as a condition of his release? I always thought that would be ripe for a challenge.
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Merlinspop wrote:
MrMorden wrote:
drseti wrote:Unfortunately, Andy, the gentleman passed away before he could bring his case against the local police. This incident was all over the AOPA website and magazine, for those not familiar with it.
Yeah, I remember that. Too bad, I think he had a good case against an overreaching Sheriff's Dept.
Didn't they make him waive his right to sue as a condition of his release? I always thought that would be ripe for a challenge.
Yeah, I don't think any contract or agreement reached under duress like that can hold up in court. If it were me and the cops made that condition to me, I'd say: "Okay, then I guess you can take me to jail and dig this hole a little deeper for you..."
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MrMorden wrote:Is that the one at Milledgeville, or a different one?
Different one. The stacks in the pic are exactly 19NM NW of KMAC @ 1,470 MSL. (We were at 4.5)
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Merlinspop wrote:
CTLSi wrote:
N918KT wrote:Is that a nuclear power plant? Just wondering.
A nuke plant has cooling towers shaped like an uneven hourglass. this is a coal plant, or oil fired. anyway, sometimes local authorities get pissie and go after you for flying over power plants because they think you might want to drop something on them.
Hyperboloid cooling towers can be used in all types of power plants, not just nukes (and not all nuke plants use them). Local conditions dictate.
Ah, ok. Yeah the reason why I thought that power plant was a nuclear power plant was because of its iconic shape of the cooling towers but I didn't know that other types of power plants could use those same cooling towers as the nuke plants do and I didn't know either that not all nuclear power plants have that iconic shape of the cooling towers.
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