The Perils of Being A Celebrity Pilot

Bust your altitude and it makes the papers (or the Drudge Report, in this
case):

http://www.wokr13.tv/entertainment/s...35C-E98C-4449-
B718-22EEF76AE40A

Morgan Freeman was flying into TEB (in a turbine I presume since he says he
was coming down to 3000 from FL210) and it appears he got his clearance
confused with the approach procedure which had a step-down at 2000. I
presume he'll be back in the air again soon after some remedial training.

-cwk.

I particularly like this quote:


The actor explains, "I'm being censored by the FAA and they're going
to ground me. The hardest thing about flying is holding altitude. It's
a three-dimensional effort."

End of quote.






On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:11:04 GMT, "C Kingsbury"
wrote:

Bust your altitude and it makes the papers (or the Drudge Report, in this
case):

http://www.wokr13.tv/entertainment/s...35C-E98C-4449-
B718-22EEF76AE40A

Morgan Freeman was flying into TEB (in a turbine I presume since he says he
was coming down to 3000 from FL210) and it appears he got his clearance
confused with the approach procedure which had a step-down at 2000. I
presume he'll be back in the air again soon after some remedial training.

-cwk.

In article ,
wrote:

The actor explains, "I'm being censored by the FAA and they're going
to ground me. The hardest thing about flying is holding altitude. It's
a three-dimensional effort."

I hope that's a transcription error and he said he was being _censured_
by the FAA.

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 22:38:56 GMT, (Ben Jackson) wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

The actor explains, "I'm being censored by the FAA and they're going
to ground me. The hardest thing about flying is holding altitude. It's
a three-dimensional effort."

I hope that's a transcription error and he said he was being _censured_
by the FAA.


These days, you can never be sure.

C Kingsbury wrote:

Bust your altitude and it makes the papers (or the Drudge Report, in this
case):

http://www.wokr13.tv/entertainment/s...35C-E98C-4449-
B718-22EEF76AE40A

Morgan Freeman was flying into TEB (in a turbine I presume since he says he
was coming down to 3000 from FL210) and it appears he got his clearance
confused with the approach procedure which had a step-down at 2000. I
presume he'll be back in the air again soon after some remedial training.

-cwk.



Holding altitude is the hardest part of flying? If he really believes
this, then he definitely needs some remedial training.


Matt

wrote in message
...
I particularly like this quote:


The actor explains, "I'm being censored by the FAA and they're going
to ground me. The hardest thing about flying is holding altitude. It's
a three-dimensional effort."

My instrument students mastering BAI would agree. Holding altitude didn't
seem to be his problem; adhering to clearances did, however.

"C Kingsbury" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
ink.net...
Bust your altitude and it makes the papers (or the Drudge Report, in this
case):

http://www.wokr13.tv/entertainment/s...35C-E98C-4449-
B718-22EEF76AE40A
Morgan Freeman was flying into TEB (in a turbine I presume since he says
he
was coming down to 3000 from FL210) and it appears he got his clearance
confused with the approach procedure which had a step-down at 2000. I
presume he'll be back in the air again soon after some remedial training.
-cwk.
j

just being curious when reading that from over here in austria..
are the faa really that strict and ground you for being at not a cleared
altitude - for whatever reason?

regards
wolfgang
FTLOWW 081000Z 081812 33004KT 1500 SCT005 BKN008 TEMPO 2109 0600 FZFG VV002
TEMPO 0006 -DZ BECMG 0911 4000 BR= ifr-weather;-)

"Wolfgang K." wrote:

just being curious when reading that from over here in austria..
are the faa really that strict and ground you for being at not a cleared
altitude - for whatever reason?

It depends on the situation. If your altitude excursion does not cause a
problem for ATC, the controller most likely won't write you up. He may if he
has to move other aircraft around because you busted your altitude
assignment. He definitely will if your mistake causes a loss of separation
with another aircraft.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

"Wolfgang K."
just being curious when reading that from over here in austria..
are the faa really that strict and ground you for being at not a cleared
altitude - for whatever reason?

No, but busting a clearance in the busy New York City airspace will draw
attention. TEB underlies NYC Class B and specifically underlies some Newark
approaches. It is very busy, congested airspace.

Otherwise, it seems ATC radar is programmed to generate an alert with a 300
foot bust. I've done a number of those. It seems that it is up to the
controller to decide what to do.

From Mr Freeman's statements, it suggests that he is either relatively
inexperienced either in IFR ops or in ops at busy airports. He talks about
looking at the approach plate and deciding to descend to the altitude for
the approach. I'm guessing that at Teterboro, one would typically be
vectored and stepped down to intercept final. But that's just a guess.

Hello,

From Mr Freeman's statements, it suggests that he is either relatively
inexperienced either in IFR ops or in ops at busy airports. He talks
about
looking at the approach plate and deciding to descend to the altitude for
the approach. I'm guessing that at Teterboro, one would typically be
vectored and stepped down to intercept final. But that's just a guess.

IIRC he's got his PPL in 2002 and owned a Piper Arrow in 2003 (not a thing
to be used in FL210 ;-). So his IFR ticket could possibly be quite "fresh".

Regards

Kai Glaesner