777F VERY low pass in Texas

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

777 Corpies nearly corped. For corp sake, stop corping!

 

[FlyPurdue]

I found the ownership intriguing too.

“Center, we just came out of heavy maintenance and want to do a practice approach at Horseshoe Bay.”

They would have had to come right over the yacht club, I wonder what that was like for the guests!

 

[Minuteman]

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Don't think it's coincidental that the bird is registered to an LLC down there in Horseshoe Bay

A retired major widebody captain has the skillset to pull that off after a lifetime of ILS approaches?

Given the demographics of folks that retire to this area, the points all seem consistent.

 

[DE727UPS]

It was probably Captain Steeeve.

 

[CFI A&P]

Probably IFR the whole time. Files the airports involved requests an approach takes it to a go around stays low and climbs up on whatever “missed appr” instructions they gave them and moves on.

Yes, that'll work with a 141 flight academy shooting a series of approaches around the area, but I suspect it is a little more complicated for this flight.

 

[Kingairer]

Trent Palmer has entered the chat.......

“This was a precautionary pass to make sure the runway was clear “

 

[Wardogg]

Yes, that'll work with a 141 flight academy shooting a series of approaches around the area, but I suspect it is a little more complicated for this flight.

I don’t know. Call it a maint flight. The ATC system doesn’t really care. Couldn’t have been much harder than coordinating this?

 

[MikeD]

Yes, that'll work with a 141 flight academy shooting a series of approaches around the area, but I suspect it is a little more complicated for this flight.

I don’t know. Call it a maint flight. The ATC system doesn’t really care. Couldn’t have been much harder than coordinating this?

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Normally, if you’re the one filing the flight plan, you’d simply file a delay for X minutes at X location for an instrument approach and then to resume your same IFR clearance and flight planned routing on the missed. With no instrument approaches at this field, he must’ve filed a delay for X minutes, for perhaps a visual approach, which one can do, which may or may not raise eyebrows with ATC if they were Merle using their callsign as Boeing 705DN

 

[CFIT99]

“This was a precautionary pass to make sure the runway was clear “

"that's fine ...but why did you do it 6 more times"

"why are you the way you are..."

 

[Skåning]

“This was a precautionary pass to make sure the runway was clear “

Maybe it was running a teensy bit rough

 

[NovemberEcho]

Has anyone put together the "how" on this yet? How did this work with an IFR clearance? As in, how did they deviate 200 miles off course for a VFR low pass then re-enter the NAS IFR?

Not really hard at all from an atc standpoint. Probsbly far more red tape with the company.

 

[mikecweb]

It appears there's a chance aircraft off the right wing. Some sort of promotional shoot gone wrong? (Right?)...

 

[CFI A&P]

Not really hard at all from an atc standpoint. Probsbly far more red tape with the company.

Exactly, that's what I'm most curious about. If it wasn't a transport category freighter, it's pretty easy to do, Yet, I am curious on how do you tell a dispatcher to plan for this "photo op"?

 

[mikecweb]

Exactly, that's what I'm most curious about. If it wasn't a transport category freighter, it's pretty easy to do, Yet, I am curious on how do you tell a dispatcher to plan for this "photo op"?

This was not a revenue flight. I'm assuming part 91 with no dispatcher.

 

[Minuteman]

Wanna hear that conversation when whoever owned that plane goes to talk with their insurance company next time.

Like a Bob Hope routine, "…no, that's right, we kept the gear up … about twelve feet.”