Southern Airways Express 208 Landing on Road

Boris Badenov said:
I flew both booted and TKS 210s back in the day. Let's just say that there was a reason they generally kept the booted planes in Florida.

That said, even the booted planes worked ok, if operated with the above advice (re: use the boots to get out of the ice) in mind.

But then of course 210s don't have all of those weird, unprotected dangly things hanging off of them
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Funny because it’s true.

At MAC, they kept our last few booted 208s in Fort Lauderdale and San Juan until they were eventually retrofitted with TKS.
 
This could have been a lot worse. With airlines hiring the way they are the quality of the pilots at that shop runs the gamut. I imagine the good ones are not there long. Had one the other day intercepted the localizer and never descended, at 2.5 mile final he was still about 3000ft AGL (and IMC). I asked if everything was alright and got no response so I sent him around. At least he did that right. And to answer someones question, I believe Friendly only flies EAS routes.
 
greg1016 said:
This could have been a lot worse. With airlines hiring the way they are the quality of the pilots at that shop runs the gamut. I imagine the good ones are not there long. Had one the other day intercepted the localizer and never descended, at 2.5 mile final he was still about 3000ft AGL (and IMC). I asked if everything was alright and got no response so I sent him around. At least he did that right. And to answer someones question, I believe Friendly only flies EAS routes.
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Not only EAS but any revenue flight is going to need financial backstop. My firm just helped launch LAF (Purdue)-ORD on Southern. Not EAS but it has a healthy minimum revenue guarantee from the community/state.
 
KLB said:
I actually got banned from the spinoff where all the halfway decent folks went over a similar discussion a few years back. I was shocked by that.
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Was it you that invited me to a PJP cars group? Loved the idea on paper, but holy overcompensating d-bags.
 
Itchy said:
The TKS lets the van slide through ice like a greased suppository compared to a booted one. Plenty of time in both. In fact, I too got to experience a 10 minute glide in one in IMC, busted out at 800’ and got lucky and had a handy field. No damage. I am very curious if this one failed for the same reason, a compressor failure that was catastrophic and moved the entire gas generator back 3/4 of an inch. Seriously thought my ticket was going to punched that day. There was a thread here about it back then. Here’s the ATC end of the conversation that day.
View: https://youtu.be/v2u9k8XJuDw?si=yPU3NqSbh7bH_soi
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Jesus man; nice work. Hope when SAR showed up you were just casually leaning on the bird going “took yall long enough”.
 
Boots2Wings said:
Jesus man; nice work. Hope when SAR showed up you were just casually leaning on the bird going “took yall long enough”.
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Funny story, that. I wound up 300’ from a farm house. Walked up and started pounding on the door. There were a few HUGE dogs inside going nuts, and I wondered briefly if I survived the incident only to get mauled by them. Woman comes out of the house, coffee in one hand, cigarette in the other, looks at me, the airplane, and says: “Well that’s unusual”. I replied that yes, it certainly was, could you please cal 911 and report your address so they can find me easy?
The sweet thing was, it was early December. They heated their house with freestanding kerosene heaters, and had run out, her husband was out buying kerosene! They got the bonus plan when our maintenance crew emptied the tanks into their tank. They took the wings off and towed it to RME a few miles away, put it back together with a new engine and good to go a week later.
 
Itchy said:
Funny story, that. I wound up 300’ from a farm house. Walked up and started pounding on the door. There were a few HUGE dogs inside going nuts, and I wondered briefly if I survived the incident only to get mauled by them. Woman comes out of the house, coffee in one hand, cigarette in the other, looks at me, the airplane, and says: “Well that’s unusual”. I replied that yes, it certainly was, could you please cal 911 and report your address so they can find me easy?
The sweet thing was, it was early December. They heated their house with freestanding kerosene heaters, and had run out, her husband was out buying kerosene! They got the bonus plan when our maintenance crew emptied the tanks into their tank. They took the wings off and towed it to RME a few miles away, put it back together with a new engine and good to go a week later.
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Did she offer you a cup of coffee? Were you invited in to warm up and the dogs sensed your distress and set their heads on your lap after you sat at the kitchen table and they realized you weren't some dangerous interloper? Everything I just wrote is sarcasm and I hope that you understand that your story is even better without any embellishment.
 
knot4u said:
Did she offer you a cup of coffee? Were you invited in to warm up and the dogs sensed your distress and set their heads on your lap after you sat at the kitchen table and they realized you weren't some dangerous interloper? Everything I just wrote is sarcasm and I hope that you understand that your story is even better without any embellishment.
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1) Zero embellishment.
2) No coffee, but later I did need her bathroom, however I don’t recall petting the dogs.
 
Itchy said:
1) Zero embellishment.
2) No coffee, but later I did need her bathroom, however I don’t recall petting the dogs.
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If you land in someones yard you're obliged to have coffee and pet dogs and talk about what happened as you wind down. Was she a battle axe ball buster that scared the bejeezus out of you because her uncouth style? Did she have teeth? Was she wearing a robe or clothes (there's a difference)? I'm very happy that you lived to tell the tale but I'm a sucker for a story and I want to hear about the lady with the big dogs. She let you use her bathroom, I don't let anyone into my house but if an airplane dropped into the yard I'd probably not be angry. Tell us the rest of the story, you're not Barry Seal stealing a kids bike.
 
knot4u said:
If you land in someones yard you're obliged to have coffee and pet dogs and talk about what happened as you wind down. Was she a battle axe ball buster that scared the bejeezus out of you because her uncouth style? Did she have teeth? Was she wearing a robe or clothes (there's a difference)? I'm very happy that you lived to tell the tale but I'm a sucker for a story and I want to hear about the lady with the big dogs. She let you use her bathroom, I don't let anyone into my house but if an airplane dropped into the yard I'd probably not be angry. Tell us the rest of the story, you're not Barry Seal stealing a kids bike.
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Did someone piss in your fritos mate?
 
Itchy said:
Did someone piss in your fritos mate?
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I just want the rest of the story because I think it's interesting. We all know you landed successfully in an inappropriate spot, tell the crowd the rest of the story. The details afterward are intriguing and could be beneficial, no one is asking you to hurt whoever it was that helped you but your experience might help someone in the future. To be honest I'm just wondering about the dogs.
 
knot4u said:
I just want the rest of the story because I think it's interesting. We all know you landed successfully in an inappropriate spot, tell the crowd the rest of the story. The details afterward are intriguing and could be beneficial, no one is asking you to hurt whoever it was that helped you but your experience might help someone in the future. To be honest I'm just wondering about the dogs.
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Dear Penthouse, you're not going to believe....
Farmers daughter
Barn.

will that do?
 
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