PA-28-140 down in Heflin, AL

When they say it was "scheduled to leave at 10 pm" what do they mean? Did he file a flight plan or something?
 
popaviator said:
Bad ass........:rawk:
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Brother, that's not bad ass. Bad ass is all the Airnet/FLX/Ramair/Quest/whatever guys who went through the same dirty stuff (probably direct) in non-radar singles or maybe twin pistons and didn't even see fit to talk about it. I'm a shadow of my former self. I just posted the track for informational purposes. That said, if you want to see Stupid Pilot Tricks volume 1874, look up the old FRB runs over the last 20 years. I was lucky enough to get in on the back side on the shoulders of giants. Flying through level 3s is a joke to the real hardasses. I was an apprentice at best. They're still out there, somewhere, doing what they do all the time, getting the dog doo where it's supposed to go. Bottoms up to the real dogs. Better them than me, because I scared myself enough just trying to live up to their myth.

I met a guy at FLX who was famous for going direct through anything. Tornadoes, waterspouts, whatever. He went. I used to watch his flightware track and bite my fingernails. Not much of a talker, but a damn fine pilot. Probably had too few teeth to impress an interview board, but tougher than any hair-gelled homo I've ever seen. I'm just a guy hitching his coat-tails to that kind of bad-assery. It takes a special kind to do it, and I'm not that kind, I just hope to sneak in under the radar and get counted with them for posterity. "They were called test pilots...and no one knew their names". Look out below!
 
Boris Badenov said:
Brother, that's not bad ass. Bad ass is all the Airnet/FLX/Ramair/Quest/whatever guys who went through the same dirty stuff (probably direct) in non-radar singles or maybe twin pistons and didn't even see fit to talk about it. I'm a shadow of my former self. I just posted the track for informational purposes. That said, if you want to see Stupid Pilot Tricks volume 1874, look up the old FRB runs over the last 20 years. I was lucky enough to get in on the back side on the shoulders of giants. Flying through level 3s is a joke to the real hardasses. I was an apprentice at best. They're still out there, somewhere, doing what they do all the time, getting the dog doo where it's supposed to go. Bottoms up to the real dogs. Better them than me, because I scared myself enough just trying to live up to their myth.

I met a guy at FLX who was famous for going direct through anything. Tornadoes, waterspouts, whatever. He went. I used to watch his flightware track and bite my fingernails. Not much of a talker, but a damn fine pilot. Probably had too few teeth to impress an interview board, but tougher than any hair-gelled homo I've ever seen. I'm just a guy hitching his coat-tails to that kind of bad-assery. It takes a special kind to do it, and I'm not that kind, I just hope to sneak in under the radar and get counted with them for posterity. "They were called test pilots...and no one knew their names". Look out below!
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Have gone through more inadverent embedded T-storms than I've wanted to back in the freight dog days. Get into IMC, and things start getting progressively worse and darker. Then you get the static over the headsets which is never a good thing. Iced up so bad one time going into ABQ one night, with the ice constantly being slung into the ice shields on the nose with the resultant "slam!" noise, that after landing and taxiing in; the lineman signals me to stop and goes forward and under the nose. I figure he's just chocking the front wheel as I shutdown, and he comes popping up in my view again holding this @2-3 inch thick bowl-shaped piece of ice that had been formed/adhered to the nosecone. Had ice on the gear struts and over many of the wing/stab surfaces still. Not fun, but definitely a learning experience. Have a pic of that ice-bowl somewhere in my stuff.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Brother, that's not bad ass. Bad ass is all the Airnet/FLX/Ramair/Quest/whatever guys who went through the same dirty stuff (probably direct) in non-radar singles or maybe twin pistons and didn't even see fit to talk about it. I'm a shadow of my former self. I just posted the track for informational purposes. That said, if you want to see Stupid Pilot Tricks volume 1874, look up the old FRB runs over the last 20 years. I was lucky enough to get in on the back side on the shoulders of giants. Flying through level 3s is a joke to the real hardasses. I was an apprentice at best. They're still out there, somewhere, doing what they do all the time, getting the dog doo where it's supposed to go. Bottoms up to the real dogs. Better them than me, because I scared myself enough just trying to live up to their myth.

I met a guy at FLX who was famous for going direct through anything. Tornadoes, waterspouts, whatever. He went. I used to watch his flightware track and bite my fingernails. Not much of a talker, but a damn fine pilot. Probably had too few teeth to impress an interview board, but tougher than any hair-gelled homo I've ever seen. I'm just a guy hitching his coat-tails to that kind of bad-assery. It takes a special kind to do it, and I'm not that kind, I just hope to sneak in under the radar and get counted with them for posterity. "They were called test pilots...and no one knew their names". Look out below!
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nominee for post of the day, month, week, yr. whatever.
 
Boris Badenov said:
I met a guy at FLX who was famous for going direct through anything.
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CPS based?
I remember fretting and worrying about getting back to St. Louis one night from Midway. One of those when you look at the radar on the computer and wish you didn't. Why am I doing this for paper in the back. I hauled ass through it though because I saw the purple holy crap stuff was on it's way from the west and if I got in early I'd miss that. So off I went and it was pretty bad, had to drop the gear twice to keep the speed low and hit the noggin 4 or 5 times. No SIC on board so no one to even to say WTF to so you say it to your self.
Well I'm on final with the serious dog doodoo about 15 miles west of the river and as a I roll off the runway a FLX 210 takes the runway blasts off and makes a hard right and goes due west bound. I log on to the computer the next morning and see where he went, MKC. Flight track was a straight line. Not even the slightest wiggle through the kind of crap they evacuate tornado shelters for. Crazy as hell but true freight dawgy.:beer:
 
Boris Badenov said:
His? One can only imagine. Mine was maybe a 7/10 on the FreightTerror scale. Past "ugh, bad night" and short of "God, if you get me out of this one, I'll stop drinking and start giving to Save The Children". It IS disconcerting when water gets in the flexed-out frame and the "door open" light starts setting off the master caution. ;)
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Man, you've got bigger ones than me! Shame about this poor guy - it gives me the chills to imagine how it all unraveled.

I don't envy you freight guys - I diverted to CHA one nasty evening when ATL was just a red blob on the radar. A Ramex guy is preflighting a Baron on the ramp and off he goes right into the heart of the crap, no radar....UGH!

I guess I'm fortunate to have passengers as my cargo otherwise I wouldn't have an excuse!

The tail number for the Cherokee was given out on a Fox report - N1277T

Bp244
 
one of you boys needs to edjumacate me about lightning strikes. ive flown in some scummy weather lately but i still get the heeby jeebys when the clouds are lighting up around me...dark and bumpy and massively raining, no problem... add lightning to that and i still get that sinking feeling :-\

is lightning a big deal?

(note, this is in a 172 with no radar/weather/functional-anything)
 
Lightning can be a big deal. Not likely to make your plane explode or anything, but it can do some pretty expensive damage and conceivably cause system failures. Plus, if there's a significant amount of lightning around, there are probably other reasons not to want to be there in a 172...
 
It depends of course. My aircraft has a history of flaming out when struck by lightning, though we had a crew avoid it recently and come back with basically nothing more than structural damage to the nosecone and tail (little burn holes). I'd say the biggest risk would be damage to navigational systems or other electronic stuff that you would need.
 
TXaviator said:
one of you boys needs to edjumacate me about lightning strikes. ive flown in some scummy weather lately but i still get the heeby jeebys when the clouds are lighting up around me...dark and bumpy and massively raining, no problem... add lightning to that and i still get that sinking feeling :-\
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A friend flying a Dash 8 in Japan had about $250,000 in damage from one. Apparently, certain parts of airplanes can explode when hit by lightening.
 
I used to dodge the worse Wx back and forth from Dallas down to Houston, but an old Baron pilot never deviated. He did land once and they totalled it for all the hail damage. Busted glass, the spinner and leading edges looked like they had been beat with a 4 pound sledgehammer. Cool as a cucumber, he was.
 
texas_pilot said:
I used to dodge the worse Wx back and forth from Dallas down to Houston, but an old Baron pilot never deviated. He did land once and they totalled it for all the hail damage. Busted glass, the spinner and leading edges looked like they had been beat with a 4 pound sledgehammer. Cool as a cucumber, he was.
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Cool, but maybe kind of stupid too.
 
Flying threw texas that day in a PA-28... The weather was crazy! The ground speed topped out at 220kts "indicating 125". Freezing rain/snow...horrible wind ect...I and I cant see why any CFI would sign off a student pilot to fly in similar weather :dunno:
 
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