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Dangers of Road Landings
Which reminds me...Those posts... that is.
One of the locals was on his way to Sun-n'-Fun some years back when the engine in his Comanche 180 quite over the Tennessee mountains. He was out of gas, but should have had enough to make the fly-in with plenty of reserve. He dead sticked it onto a gently winding mountain road and was doing really well until he got to that mail box set on top of a steel pipe full of concrete. It put more than a 2" dent in the wing. Actually it took most of the one wing off, but it didn't hurt the mail box one bit. Turns out the mice had gotten into the wings and eaten holes in the bladders. Apparently they didn't leak until the fuel got down to the point where there wasn't enough pressure to hold the bladder against the aluminum and the holes opened up. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com Roger |
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Tom wrote:
Scared the living crap outta me. Never landed on a road again. But that had little to do with landing on a road and more to do with not doing a proper runway check before takeoff. Any time you land off-road, it is smart to walk the "field" prior to takeoff. Even major airports do periodic FOD checks on the runways. Matt |
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Good chance he was relating experiences as they relate to what you were
about to do in your flying career. I do the same thing. Not to impress young pilots with my daring-do, but to pass on the experience I got the hard way. I've done more stupid things and made more mistakes than any room full of a hundred pilots or more. Fortunately I learned from those mistakes before one killed me. I've logged more than 13,000 hours in the lowest reaches of the airspace system in both airplanes and helicopters, and another 9-10,000 hours at in the safer altitudes. The areas of most danger are those down low. Cheers Selway Kid |
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This is a really good idea. It's also a really good idea to sit down with
an experienced local glider pilot before flying in or near mountains. You can get an accurate idea of where to expect downdrafts and rollers. Seth "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message k.net... This is good advice. If I had my way, I'd have every student pilot in the world sit down and have a cup of coffee with an experienced ag pilot as a pre-requsite to the PPL. Dudley Henriques wrote in message oups.com... As a pilot who operated off county roads, has made many landings on freeways and interstate highways, I don't feel uncomfortable doing it. But, the average pilot doesn't give much thought to the possible consequences or the hidden dangers. Much more to it than meets the eye. This was an intentional post to make pilots think and to stir the pot a little. This includes airplanes and helicopters. Selway Kid |
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does anyone have the video from this?
"Marty" wrote in message ... Well, it was the takeoff that he messed up. I tend to think that all the attention was a large factor. He may have been a little too focused outside the plane. On one occasion I had to fight a tremendous urge to show off. Years ago with 200hrs under my belt, I got into the line-up to fly down the Chicago lake front during the Air & Water Show. Fighting that little voice saying "Go ahead and roll it, you can do it! The crowd will love it" wasn't easy to ignore, but I did. The likely outcome would have been a Tri-Pacer and it's dead pilot being fished from Lake Michigan or worse, an encounter with beach comers. Marty "Bob Gardner" wrote in message ... High on the list of the hazards of road landings is that you might end up on the 6 o'clock news...as was the case with the pilot in Baton Rouge. Bob Gardner |
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Yea, when I was living in Rural North Dakota would not be uncommon to see AG
aircraft on the road or taxing down the street! "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message k.net... This is good advice. If I had my way, I'd have every student pilot in the world sit down and have a cup of coffee with an experienced ag pilot as a pre-requsite to the PPL. Dudley Henriques wrote in message oups.com... As a pilot who operated off county roads, has made many landings on freeways and interstate highways, I don't feel uncomfortable doing it. But, the average pilot doesn't give much thought to the possible consequences or the hidden dangers. Much more to it than meets the eye. This was an intentional post to make pilots think and to stir the pot a little. This includes airplanes and helicopters. Selway Kid |
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I did some spraying near McCluskey one year!! You have to be from there
to know where it is.....Or, be a spray pilot ggg |
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Montblack wrote:
("John Doe" wrote) does anyone have the video from this? 1973 Cessna 210L using the road as a runway. http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2965211C (Same link as below ...wait for it. Link still works on Halloween) http://www.wafb.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=565126&h1=Pilot%20Who%20Mad e%20Emergency%20Landing%20Crashes%20Plane%20on%20S econd%20Attempt&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=188533&LaunchPag eAdTag=News&activePane=info&playerVersion=1&rnd=72 883635 Anybody figure out a way to save them to disc? |
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("John Doe" wrote)
does anyone have the video from this? 1973 Cessna 210L using the road as a runway. http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2965211C (Same link as below ...wait for it. Link still works on Halloween) http://www.wafb.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=565126&h1=Pilot%20Who%20Mad e%20Emergency%20Landing%20Crashes%20Plane%20on%20S econd%20Attempt&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=188533&LaunchPag eAdTag=News&activePane=info&playerVersion=1&rnd=72 883635 Montblack |
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