Similar situation at Port Clinton this summer where a woods obscure the
intesection of the two runways... I fire up and start to taxi to the
favored runway... As I'm turning on radios and adjusting audio levles I
thought I heard a broken call for the airport so I'm listening closely...
Silence...
I get to the runway, do a run up, etc... Silence...
Call that I'm taking the runway... Silence...
Specifically ask if anyone is using the intersecting runway... Silence...
I do a 360 and finally take the runway when nothing is seen...
Call that I'm rolling for takeoff... Silence...
Break ground and just then a plane comes slowly rolling past the woods on
the other runway into view... Since I have flying speed and I will be two
hundred feet in the air when I make the intersection I change nothing...
He stares at me through his window and as I go past he shakes his fist at
me...
It takes all kinds to make a world... sigh
Denny...
"Dave Russell" wrote in message
om...
So there I am, rolling on 32 (turf), the tail's just come up... when
an Archer blithely rolls right out in front of me on the taxiway for
4. :-|
You can't see much of the taxiway from the departure end of 4 because
of a hangar, and this guy was rolling along pretty good.
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