777F VERY low pass in Texas

[Skåning]

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[Wardogg]

Impressive.

You can do whatever you want, on your last flight.

 

[FlyPurdue]

My hypothesis is a very recently retired AA/UA captain who gets hired as a contractor for mammoth freighters. Does a ‘practice approach’ gets a little carried away…

 

[derg]

My hypothesis is a very recently retired AA/UA captain who gets hired as a contractor for mammoth freighters. Does a ‘practice approach’ gets a little carried away…

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

 

[Murdoughnut]

Impressive.

You can do whatever you want, on your last flight.

Reminds me of something I tell my kids often.

"You can do anything you want. Once."

 

[bLizZuE]

That was dumb

 

[Wardogg]

Reminds me of something I tell my kids often.

"You can do anything you want. Once."

“Remember kids, if it only ends up in a fine, that means it’s legal for a price”.

 

[Wardogg]

Aircraft in question is a Boeing B77L N705DN. The aircraft departed Grissom ARB, IN on June 24th and performed this low pass at Horseshoe Bay Airfield, TX two hours later. After the low pass, the aircraft climbed again and continued to land at Fort Worth Alliance Airport an hour later.

 

[luke3]

I guess if you're going to do some "Yee-Haw!" cowboy stuff it's fitting to do it in Texas

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Bro thought he had folding wingtips of a 777X…

 

[mightynimbus]

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

 

[DropTank]

Capt looks at video, winces, acts proud anyway.

 

[Minuteman]

This was a former Delta jet, N705DN. It left AFW, flew southwest to do the low pass in Horseshoe Bay, then continued Grissom Aeroplex north of Kokomo, IN.

 

[CFI A&P]

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?

 

[bp]

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

considering the roll before the pull with that little wingtip clearance, id assume more luck than good

 

[htown121]

This was a former Delta jet, N705DN. It left AFW, flew southwest to do the low pass in Horseshoe Bay, then continued Grissom Aeroplex north of Kokomo, IN.

Other way around

Low pass was performed on a GUS-AFW leg

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Bird was coming out of paint at GUS after having done AFW-GUS a few weeks prior; Mammoth Freighters has a conversion facility at AFW, and GUS has a paint shop

 

[Minuteman]

I read gūd, thanks!

 

[CFIT99]

considering the roll before the pull with that little wingtip clearance, id assume more luck than good

was gonna say the same thing...looks at video and realizes how bad it could have been.


either way a bold move cotton...

 

[htown121]

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

 

[Wardogg]

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?

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.