What do you suppose they are doing?

Some kind of aerial survey or search would be my guess.
 
Jilted Dept of Ag pilot? Did he have a boombox hanging out of the cargo door?
 
Cloud seeding for fire suppression.
 
Vaccine nano particles for tracking. You said something bad about the government, didn't you?
 
Interesting. Usually it's the feds I see doing that, not the state.

FBI has some Caravans with fake cellular sites that will intercept calls and texts. They get passed through, of course, but you don't know you're not connecting directly to the cell network. And this is what their flights look like...

apnews.com

FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scores of low-flying planes circling American cities are part of a civilian air force operated by the FBI and obscured behind fictitious companies, The Associated Press has learned.
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Sufi whirling dervish, so it's okay. It's a religious act.
 
Considering they were +/- 500' in the turns, it may have been a checkout and the CFI said "We're going to keep doing this until you can maintain altitude". Looks like they did an outbound leg and a hold entry to the northeast on that trip.

I like how the leg out of the web of spirals is a little wobbly heading toward the airport. Like "Whoa.. I don't feel so good now..."
 
Here's a google earth shot with a pin in the center of their circles. 2 hours of this seems strange. They were between 650 and 1400 feet the entire time.

It certainly wasn't stealthy. I noticed it from a few miles away.

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CJones said:
Considering they were +/- 500' in the turns, it may have been a checkout and the CFI said "We're going to keep doing this until you can maintain altitude". Looks like they did an outbound leg and a hold entry to the northeast on that trip.

I like how the leg out of the web of spirals is a little wobbly heading toward the airport. Like "Whoa.. I don't feel so good now..."
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In a plane registered to the US Dept of Agriculture?
 
Surveillance. DHS had a report of a Chinese warbird in the area so they sent a plane disguised as one registered to the Ag Dept.
 
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Here's a google earth shot with a pin in the center of their circles. 2 hours of this seems strange. They were between 650 and 1400 feet the entire time.

It certainly wasn't stealthy. I noticed it from a few miles away.

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Nude sunbather at that pool???? :D
 
There used to be an adult club on final for a certain military base. They had a pool and the young ladies would sunbath there (high fence).

Helicopters would request a PAR, get over the pool and hover. Moving up and down and left and right to give the controller the image of flying the PAR. The young controllers would not notice the range not changing. Then an older voice would come on and tell the pilots to stop screwing around.
 
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