Hurricane

[rausda27]

Saw the Metars, everyone and equipment okay?

METAR KSFB 140153Z 10046G60KT 1/2SM +RA FG FEW004 BKN013 OVC020
23/23 A2936 RMK AO2 PK WND 10060/0153 PRESFR SLP941 P0065
T02280228
SPECI KSFB 140209Z 12063G80KT 1/2SM +RA FG BKN009 OVC015 23/23 A2908
RMK AO2 PK WND 12080/0209 PRESFR P0033 $
SPECI KSFB 140213Z 16050G80KT 1SM +RA BR BKN008 OVC013 23/23 A2904
RMK AO2 PK WND 12080/0209 PRESFR P0034 $
SPECI KSFB 140218Z 20036G80KT 2SM -RA BR BKN006 OVC013 23/23 A2909
RMK AO2 PK WND 12080/0209 WSHFT 0202 P0036 $

 

[H46Bubba]

School was closed as of the last flight last night. Maybe some of the head honchos were there today to plan and watch the weather. It got pretty gusty where I live. The aircraft were hopefully tied down good, if so they should have faired fine. We'll see what daylight brings on Saturday.

 

[VampyreGTX]

KMCO is closed with reports of ALL buildings receiving some level of damage.

KORL is closed with some building damage and reports of 50% of the airplanes damaged/destroyed.

KSFB is closed with no published damage reports yet.

 

[H46Bubba]

As far as I could see the buildings faired pretty good and we only had one a/c damaged. It was a PA-28R Arrow. A lot of the other hangars on the field had their doors blown out.

 

[Kristie]

WOW! you guys got lucky!!

 

[derg]

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WOW! you guys got lucky!!

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No doubt!

 

[planediveguy]

We did evacuate some of our fleet to other airports where we could put them inside hangars... I helped return a C-172 from Daytona yesterday.Operations began today again at noon, and we espect to be back to full force in a couple of days...

And you are right when you say we got lucky!

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[Kristie]

well, i'm glad to hear everything's ok and that DCA will be up and running again in a matter of a few days! that's excellent compared to all the other devestation around there!!

 

[H46Bubba]

Wow, the past couple of days have been pretty busy. We've been having to inspect all the aircaraft that were outside and not hangared during Charley, then performing a maintenance flight afterwards. Most of the C-172 had bent aileron push rods. That was really the most damage out of all the aicraft we have. We did have some aircraft down at ORL that were hangared. The hangars got busted up and two aircraft were damaged but can still be flow with some minor fixes, back to Sanford. Just waiting on FAA ok to ferry.