jafra98
Well-Known Member
No who is his right mind with a power line so close to the runway does not put a displaced threshold on the runway or uses the magic balls on the powerlines
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Landing Accident from Inside the Cockpit
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No who is his right mind with a power line so close to the runway does not put a displaced threshold on the runway or uses the magic balls on the powerlines
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TFaudree_ERAU
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No who is his right mind with a power line so close to the runway does not put a displaced threshold on the runway or uses the magic balls on the powerlines
I'm guessing the guy flying the accident aircraft ISN'T the owner of the field. Who's to say the owner doesn't use the line of trees that he's cut down about 1/3 of the way down the runway as his "displaced threshold"?
jafra98
Well-Known Member
Probably the guy on the Kitfox did not had the current IFR charts for the field.........
TFaudree_ERAU
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Probably the guy on the Kitfox did not had the current IFR charts for the field.........
I'm guessing he didn't tune the ILS either. Follow that glide slope and you won't get hurt...
rframe
pǝʇɹǝʌuı
I'm actually thinking the "right" way to fly this approach is to drop it in just after the trees and go under the power line.... but maybe that's just my wanna-be-ag-pilot alter ego thinking...
jafra98
Well-Known Member
Apparently he was flying the backcourse localizer for the wrong runway............
TFaudree_ERAU
Mashin' dem buttons
There's a grass strip over on the eastern shore of VA that hosts a "Soup-on-Sunday" lunch event almost every Sunday that the weather is nice. The owner of the field comes up with some pretty creative April Fools pranks every year. A few years ago, it was about the power lines at the approach end of one of the runways. It was said that the power company was going to raise the lines by 278' to allow landing traffic to go under them.
jafra98
Well-Known Member
There's a grass strip over on the eastern shore of VA that hosts a "Soup-on-Sunday" lunch event almost every Sunday that the weather is nice. The owner of the field comes up with some pretty creative April Fools pranks every year. A few years ago, it was about the power lines at the approach end of one of the runways. It was said that the power company was going to raise the lines by 278' to allow landing traffic to go under them.
That for sure will be the pilot's limbo dance..............
FlyingScot
Spanish Proficient
If "he followed the plate" he would not have gotten hurt.
NickH
Uber Driver
If you look here: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.656592,-123.052007&num=1&t=h&gl=us&z=19
You'll see a private airstrip in Oregon. Zoom in nice and close.
You'll see a private airstrip in Oregon. Zoom in nice and close.
rframe
pǝʇɹǝʌuı
AOPA interviewed the guy. He now claims he was going to abort, but a gust of wind lifted him off the ground...
http://www.aopa.org/training/articles/2012/120814youtube-crash-pilot-was-going-to-abort.html
http://www.aopa.org/training/articles/2012/120814youtube-crash-pilot-was-going-to-abort.html
SteveCostello
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Wait... so a gust of wind lifted him off the ground, and then a gust of wind tossed him into the trees?
Damn that wind!
Seriously, though. Gust of wind or not, there's no way I would have continued that takeoff when it was crystal clear that things were not going as expected.
And wait-a-tic. Was about to abort? Sorry... but I think it's pretty apparent that the pilot was intent on getting the aircraft off the ground, even if only by wishes, fairy tales, and a whole heap of "I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Think I Can!"
Damn that wind!
Seriously, though. Gust of wind or not, there's no way I would have continued that takeoff when it was crystal clear that things were not going as expected.
And wait-a-tic. Was about to abort? Sorry... but I think it's pretty apparent that the pilot was intent on getting the aircraft off the ground, even if only by wishes, fairy tales, and a whole heap of "I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Think I Can!"
TFaudree_ERAU
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I THINK this is supposed to be in the other "old guy crashes plane" thread.
scooter2525
Very well Member
mains on at threshold eh?
SteveCostello
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It's a fancy way of catching those pesky trespassers who drop in! GOTCHA!
rframe
pǝʇɹǝʌuı
Yep, my bad... put it in the wrong thread.
Mod's, you can move if you're so inclined.
SteveCostello
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Uh... Yeah. And move my post over there, too! Because I completely thought I was in that thread, too. Nice job, rframe. Breaking the webz.
amjon
Pilot and A Half (for now
I think you've got the wrong accident video. That was the guy that crashed on take off, not this one that was landing.
