Coral Springs FL, Alert area Mid-Air

Terrible thing to watch unfold so close. The planes looked like confetti falling. For the first minute I even refused to believe it was an aircraft until I saw some numbers and a smoking engine.
 
Hernandezcfi said:
Terrible thing to watch unfold so close. The planes looked like confetti falling. For the first minute I even refused to believe it was an aircraft until I saw some numbers and a smoking engine.
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Wow that is horrible :(


A little off topic here, but bLizZuE is your signature of Oahu, Hawaii?
 
Hernandezcfi said:
Terrible thing to watch unfold so close. The planes looked like confetti falling. For the first minute I even refused to believe it was an aircraft until I saw some numbers and a smoking engine.
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Jesus Christ :(... People y'all take care out there when flying.
 
The past month or so hasn't been very good around here. From what I remember there was the Kemper Aviation incident by LNA, then the gentleman that flew out of BCT and crashed not too far North, and now this. Not very comforting for someone just starting out.

The times that I've gone up I've had a hard time finding traffic. That is something I really want to work on.
 
Do people in this particular practice area communicate over freq most of the time?
 
The most common practice area freq in the area is what FSI/FIT/ERAU use. 123.3
 
Here is the latest according to the Maimi Herald. It was a Cessna 150 and the twin Piper. The Piper was going into PMP and was cleared to descend to 2000 and about the be handed off to PMP tower. The 150 was out of LNA with one student pilot on board who was just out in the practice area. The Piper obviously being a low wing and the Cessna being a high wing didnt even see eachother. It said the controller tried to call out the traffic but it was too late. Once again... this was from the media, not from me.

RPJ said:
Do people in this particular practice area communicate over freq most of the time?
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I have always used 123.45 when out there. I find that a lot of people are opening flight plans or closing them out there, causing them to be on another freq.
 
Wow, now that's even scarier if the guy was on an IFR flight plan. I usually get VFR advisory service when I go in there - if that's true, I wonder if the investigation will focus on the controlling agencies.
 
Everyone who is FLIR equiped was out there seeing if they could pick up anyone in the sawgrass. Sadly, nothing yet.
 
That sucks, hits close to home, I fly out of TMB, used the alert area that is just west of X51 in the Miami Area. Did my private pilot there and had at least one C152 fly 200ft over the top of my cessna by the time I saw him. Now I will be instructing in that same alert area and I've been told it has only gotten worse. We use 123.3 for the alert area.
 
Hernandezcfi said:
Terrible thing to watch unfold so close. The planes looked like confetti falling. For the first minute I even refused to believe it was an aircraft until I saw some numbers and a smoking engine.
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Is your first name Mel?

Definitely some sad news. The 152 was from a flight school next to ours.
 
RPJ said:
Do people in this particular practice area communicate over freq most of the time?
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A lot of people do, but there's usually a few that don't. I will always at least monitor it. Over by bend in the sawgrass people use 123.45, and just north of there from BCT to LNA people use 122.75. The unfortunate part is that often times people out of the area are talking so much on the freq that you just end up turning the radio down.

It definitely gets a little busy out there sometimes, which is why you always have to clear the area very well for traffic. Still, there are a lot of times when you see somebody doing something stupid.
 
wrxpilot said:
Definitely some sad news. The 152 was from a flight school next to ours.
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Is it the same flight school that lost a plane and 2 people about 2 months ago from the forced landing at night?

wrxpilot said:
The unfortunate part is that often times people out of the area are talking so much on the freq that you just end up turning the radio down.

It definitely gets a little busy out there sometimes, which is why you always have to clear the area very well for traffic. Still, there are a lot of times when you see somebody doing something stupid.
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That's funny you say that. Those were my exact thoughts. It's hard to keep track of someone who is about to do a spin when you are stuck hearing Chuck talking to Frank about the 5.0 Mustang and how she is running.

There have been many times when I have just left to go play around in the pattern because there are so many people in the practice area. Not to long ago I heard 2 planes doing turns about a point off of the tower at the end of Loxahatchee Rd. They were doing them what seemed to be 500ft higher than one another. I was just waiting for disaster to happen.

I always try to get in touch with PMP tower as early as possible when heading back so I can at least be on someone's radar.
 
wrxpilot said:
Is your first name Mel?

Definitely some sad news. The 152 was from a flight school next to ours.
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No, it's Ben but there is a Mel at the flight school I used to work for. I still give Prog. checks to some students there which is what I was doing when I observed the wreck.
 
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