A attempted breeding gone bad?
Well, at least the safety cone is out.
Their insurance agent is going to love hearing this!Happened over the weekend. Strong wind storm on Saturday. They had hangar space but the line guys said the renters didn’t want to pay for it. One got airborne and landed on the other
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Were they tied down and got loose or were they just parked? I can remember back when KBUR had a large section of GA parking on the NW side of the intersection of RWY's 8 and 15 (where Million Air is now) and when the Santa Ana winds were forecast we'd have to drive up and down the rows and make sure all of the "little" airplanes were tied down properly to ensure they wouldn't try to fly away. I learned a lot of people seemed to be really lazy when it came to securing their prized possesion so we'd make sure we got them secured. We weren't always 100% successful and a couple of planes would end up bumping into each other occasionally, but I don't recall one ever trying trying to perform autonomous aerobatics.Happened over the weekend. Strong wind storm on Saturday. They had hangar space but the line guys said the renters didn’t want to pay for it. One got airborne and landed on the other
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Were they tied down and got loose or were they just parked? I can remember back when KBUR had a large section of GA parking on the NW side of the intersection of RWY's 8 and 15 (where Million Air is now) and when the Santa Ana winds were forecast we'd have to drive up and down the rows and make sure all of the "little" airplanes were tied down properly to ensure they wouldn't try to fly away. I learned a lot of people seemed to be really lazy when it came to securing their prized possesion so we'd make sure we got them secured. We weren't always 100% successful and a couple of planes would end up bumping into each other occasionally, but I don't recall one ever trying trying to perform autonomous aerobatics.
So I'd guess the wayward machine/machines was/were transient? I've just put chocks in when just visiting but I've never returned an airplane to base without tying it down or putting it in a hangar. I've never owned an airplane, but I've been told it's not cheap. I cant imagine paying monthly for a parking spot that didn't at least offer some sort of a method to tie the thing down. It's not like parking a car in long term parking, I've always said even if I won the powerball before I looked for an airplane I'd be searching for a hangar.Line guy said they don’t have tie downs spots on their ramp
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So I'd guess the wayward machine/machines was/were transient? I've just put chocks in when just visiting but I've never returned an airplane to base without tying it down or putting it in a hangar. I've never owned an airplane, but I've been told it's not cheap. I cant imagine paying monthly for a parking spot that didn't at least offer some sort of a method to tie the thing down. It's not like parking a car in long term parking, I've always said even if I won the powerball before I looked for an airplane I'd be searching for a hangar.
Don’t know the back story but I was offered to buy it from a junkyard. I told them no thanks.
I stopped in CHS a few days ago and saw this sitting on the back 40 of the Atlantic ramp… anyone know the back story?
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Line guy said they don’t have tie downs spots on their ramp
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What were they asking for it?Don’t know the back story but I was offered to buy it from a junkyard. I told them no thanks.
I don’t understand letting some air out of the tires. The rest makes sense.Years ago I owned a Grumman Yankee and kept it tied down on the ramp in eastern NC. A guy next to me owned one a couple years older. One summer, a hurricane was headed toward us and a friend offered me his empty Tee hangar. When I got to the airport to move my plane to the hangar, the guy next to me had doubled his tiedown ropes, let some air out of his tires, and strapped 2x4s to the wings, like a homemade version of the spoilers above. I thought he was an idiot. Turns out, the hurricane blew the door off the sliding track, and the top of it hit my plane on the nosewheel. It pushed it back into the hangar and the tail and wingtip were damaged by the wall of the hangar. My plane was down for a month, and it was 6 months before all the repairs were finished. Meanwhile, my neighbor pumped up his tires and was flying the next day.
Makes it harder to come up to speed on the treadmill and get airborne.I don’t understand letting some air out of the tires. The rest makes sense.