How to not steal a Challenger...

SteveC said:
We lock the cabin doors and also unplug the batteries and lock the equipment bay door. Even in our own hangar.
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Makes sense to me. I wouldn't want to imagine explaining to the insurance company that a multi million dollar jet is left unlocked left to a small but still there chance
 
SteveC said:
We lock the cabin doors and also unplug the batteries and lock the equipment bay door. Even in our own hangar.
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We don't lock the doors, but we unplug the battery and the aircraft needs a key for the starter to work. Also, good luck starting a helicopter if you're not a helicopter pilot who flies that specific model. Also, we have armed guards.
 
Ian J said:
We don't lock the doors, but we unplug the battery and the aircraft needs a key for the starter to work. Also, good luck starting a helicopter if you're not a helicopter pilot who flies that specific model. Also, we have armed guards.
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Army helos with keys, all because some crew chief stole a UH-1 in the '70s and landed it on the lawn of the White House. You guys are never going to live that down.

Insofar as starting, nowdays you can get a B3 AStar, and a single switch on the ceiling does the engine start sequence including all necessary limiting, bringing you right to ground idle. Just need the battery on. FADEC doing all the work.
 
He returned to Innercept, a residential program located in Coeur d'Alene for struggling teens and young adults.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the program isn't working.
 
Crockrocket94 said:
Wasnt there that guy that stole the Citation VII out of SGJ and flew it up to Georgia a few years back?
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Yeah. I actually knew him for a little while before finding out that he was the guy. Nice as can be and basically was a young kid doing some dumb stuff. There is evidently more to the story than just him stealing a plane. A lot of sealed court documents and deals worked out evidently.
 
Hawks said:
Ha that show is a joke! I jumped out of the Twin Otter they repoed in Lodi, CA this past weekend!
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One of my best friends has a bunch of jumps out of that bird, didn't they find out that a dude was flying it with a PPL? Everything my buddy has told me about that place made it seem sketchy as all hell.
 
rframe said:
That's what I was thinking when one of my students was telling me this story (he keeps his plane in one of their hangars)... the Barefoot Bandit has raised his standards!
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I know a guy who had an encounter with the Barefoot Bandit. I was reading the biography about Colton the Bandit, and at a crop dusting strip in Nebraska it goes into detail about his encounter there with a guy I've known all my life.
 
Old airliners are routinely stolen in West Africa and flown to South America where they are usually loaded up with drugs and crash landed either back in Africa or Mexico...
 
Every guy dreams of having a girlfriend who is down for ANYTHING.

"Listen, I need to go see my dad. I'm just gonna go take the Challenger. But, come by the airport first for a couple of things."
"Cool. Sounds great! Love you. See you soon!"
 
ChasenSFO said:
One of my best friends has a bunch of jumps out of that bird, didn't they find out that a dude was flying it with a PPL? Everything my buddy has told me about that place made it seem sketchy as all hell.
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A jump operation, sketchy?!? Nah.
 
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