Damaged aircraft - should I pay?

Robert M. Gary wrote:
one person takes the car and bugs out early with the stuff that has to be moved.

I wouldn't let my wife bug out on her own. You never know what could
happen. She could get stuck in Texas type traffic, end up having to
sleep in the car on the freeway, etc. I'm not letting her do that just
to save the damn airplane.

How about taking the airplane with your wife? Car's insured too, no? Let
that sucker sit without the battery in it. You can get farther faster
with less hassle and surround yourself with people who are not refugees.
Cars are just a commodity, wherever else you go in the USA.

Five or six hundred miles in the right direction and you are in a
different, carefree world. Why not sip a little wine on a sunny veranda,
while contemplating with detachment all the work the poor insurance
adjusters are about to undertake on your behalf?


Jack

Correct!,
Let's see I have 4 or 5 days notice. I have to spend most of one day
standing in line getting enough plywood to cover the house to try to protect
that major investment..that by the way the entire family benefits from. Now
I have the plywood, I spend another 2 days or even more getting it all up
around the house ( oh yes did I mention my job still requires that I be at
work ?) Then you have all the get the family things together time. Now you
are in fact running out of time to "get gone". Do you drive a car and your
wife take hers as well...if you can save them you both have your way to work
when you get back. Do you put the entire family on a plane ( which may or
may not even be able to carry your whole family).
OH NO, someone shouts almost to late! We almost forgot about Spot the
mangy mutt! Well that settles it, no room for the dog in the plane, we need
our cars. We have a Uhaul rented with some of our stuff in it just in case.
So now even the beloved family boat has to stay put as well. I sure wish I
could have got the plane out of here but MAN, just did not have time trying
to get my home and family together.
I would guess that scenario happens alot during those times. I love
airplanes..but my family comes number 1. I think that's how most folks would
feel about it.

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

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"Hilton" wrote in message
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Hi,

Right now (1pm West Coast time) on cnn.com, there is a picture of
numerous overturned planes. Presumably insurance pays for this and since
I pay for insurance, should I feel a bit bummed that these owners didn't
fly their planes to safety and help lower my insurance costs? Taking it
to the other extreme, perhaps some owners wanted to upgrade from a 172 to
a 182 (for example) and... Sorry, I just don't get it.

Thanks,

Hilton



Remember, those folks had to prioritize thinks in there life. Maybe the
plane didn't make the cut.

"W P Dixon" wrote

Let's see I have 4 or 5 days notice. I have to spend most of one day
standing in line getting enough plywood to cover the house to try to
protect
that major investment..that by the way the entire family benefits from.

I don't buy it. You would only have to move the plane 60 miles or so.
There is time in there to move "that" major investment, also.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
Let's see I have 4 or 5 days notice. I have to spend most of one day
standing in line getting enough plywood to cover the house to try to protect
that major investment..that by the way the entire family benefits from.

I don't buy it. You would only have to move the plane 60 miles or so.
There is time in there to move "that" major investment, also.


I flew the night Hurricane Hugo showed up *towards* the storm (for my job) and
tied the aircraft to the best of my ability out on the flightline. Gust locks,
etc... everything I could do to make it secure. When I was finally able to get
back to the airport three days later my airplane was fine. It was the ones in
the hangars that took the hit.... fallen trees caused the roof to collapse,
squashing the planes within.

Sometimes it's just a matter of luck. And frankly, nobody expected Hugo to
amount to much more than a windy night since we were a good 150 NM from the
coast.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote

I flew the night Hurricane Hugo showed up *towards* the storm (for my job)
and
tied the aircraft to the best of my ability out on the flightline. Gust
locks,
etc... everything I could do to make it secure.

Sometimes it's just a matter of luck. And frankly, nobody expected Hugo
to
amount to much more than a windy night since we were a good 150 NM from
the
coast.

How true, but Hugo was a rather large exception, and no one expected it to
do anything close to what it did.

Who would have thought that I would see an eye wall in Western NC?

If you got your plane wrecked 6+ hours drive from the coast, all I can say
is, pay up, insurance! g
--
Jim in NC

I don't buy it. You would only have to move the plane 60 miles or so.
There is time in there to move "that" major investment, also.
--
Jim in NC


But which way to move it.. that storm was 800 miles wide at one time before
it hit Mexico

"BTIZ" wrote

But which way to move it.. that storm was 800 miles wide at one time
before
it hit Mexico

Who cares what it was before Mexico? 12 to 24 hours before, the track and
size were well predicted.
--
Jim in NC

You don't have to buy anything Jim. Just saying that during crisis times
things happen and they add up . Before you know it you are out of time. And
if you flew your plane 60 miles from Key West airport to get away from the
storm...where exactly would you be safe? The odds of finding a hangar to put
the plane inside at an away from home airport can be a challenge as well.
You just can't say you can or would do this or that....you would have to be
in the situation and do all you could do. I am sure when it comes down to
it, you'd chose your familie's absolute safety over getting an airplane to
where it MIGHT be safe...and only 60 miles is a big might . Not saying there
is no way to get a plane to safety, only saying that alot of times during
those crisis times alot of things come about that you do not count on.
Even with the best of planning mother nature can give you one heck of a wake
up call.

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

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"W P Dixon" wrote

Let's see I have 4 or 5 days notice. I have to spend most of one day
standing in line getting enough plywood to cover the house to try to
protect
that major investment..that by the way the entire family benefits from.

I don't buy it. You would only have to move the plane 60 miles or so.
There is time in there to move "that" major investment, also.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:

I don't buy it. You would only have to move the plane 60 miles or so.
There is time in there to move "that" major investment, also.

You don't know if you have to move the plane or where that safe spot is until
the last few hours. When it's too late. If you want to move the plane a few days
in advance, you're talking several hundred miles to be safe, and you have to
figure out how to get back home.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

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"W P Dixon" wrote

Let's see I have 4 or 5 days notice. I have to spend most of one day
standing in line getting enough plywood to cover the house to try to
protect
that major investment..that by the way the entire family benefits from.

I don't buy it. You would only have to move the plane 60 miles or so.
There is time in there to move "that" major investment, also.

4 or 5 days before touchdown they don't know for certain where it's going
to hit with 60 mile accuracy!