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 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: Rule breakers Was: Re: This feud isn't pretty! |
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I don't know what others think, but in the 46 years that I have been flying, I've had the bejesus scared out of me more time that I like to remember by folks not following the rules, and I don't like it when scofflaws attempt to kill me and my passengers.
Just a few examples:
1. On an instrument approach at night in actual instrument conditions with visibility about 1 1/2 miles and a ceiling of about 750 feet over Puget Sound Washington, I broke out of the clouds, flipped on the landing light and directly in front of me and at the base of the clouds was a Cessna 206 scud running. If I had not been flying a helicopter that night with a lot more maneuverability than any airplane that I've ever flown, I don't believe I'd be here to relate that episode.
2. On an instrument approach into Newport, Oregon I was darn near hit head on by a single engine airplane departing that airport through the cloud deck without him being on a flight plan, or talking to Seattle Center, nor did he announce on CTAF that he was departing. Fortunately, in this instance I was still above the cloud deck, which was only about 500 feet thick with a ceiling of around 300-400 ft. below. I later learned the guy did not even have pilot valid certificate. He had let his student pilot certificate and medical expire and had a couple years before and never completed his training.
3. In Alaska, I was departing a gravel runway with a ceiling of about 1200 ft when a Super Cub broke out of the overcast lined up on final, and landed in front of me going in the opposite direction. Again, I was fortunate that it was a 4000' strip and had just applied full throttle. There was enough room to stop before we collided. Again, a guy with about 400 hours recorded in his logbook, an expired student certificate, and had not flown with an instructor in several years. Oh yeah, and this guy was hauling a cash paying client back in from a guided moose hunting trip.
4. I was not involved in this incident, but it demonstrates what some people think about the rules. In the mid 80's, near Salem, Oregon a (think I remember it being a Cessna 206), fell out of the sky minus both wings during an intense Pacific storm. He was flying, according to the radar records, along the western slope of the Cascades. I'm not sure which direction he was heading, but as I recall it was northbound. He was from the east coast somewhere. He had a private pilot certificate, with SEL privileges only, no instrument rating. Seems he was a person of some financial means and had installed a LORAN receiver coupled to a 3 axis autopilot in his aircraft. His friends and family indicated that he had flown nearly all the way across the US on that autopilot without talking to ATC, often in the clouds, and had bragged to them about it. This day, he had obtained a weather briefing somewhere in southern California, had been advised that the intense storm was approaching the Pacific Northwest, severe turbulence associated with the upslope winds, severe icing in and below the clouds in the area of his destination. He took off and was tracked by radar for nearly 700 miles, squawking VFR on the transponder, and indicating altitudes above 14,000 for the last 200-300 miles before he disappeared from radar. In the area where he crashed, there is an airway that is used for letdown from for the jet traffic inbound for Salem, Eugene, and the Portland Oregon areas that has a juts passing through that area at around 12,000 '. What would you think of a guy willfully flying as he was that happened to collide with a large passenger aircraft, especially if your family was aboard that passenger aircraft? By the way, there were 3 people aboard the aircraft that crashed.
John Hart
Model IV
Latimer County, OK
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kitfoxmike
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| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:13 am Post subject: Re: Rule breakers Was: Re: This feud isn't pretty! |
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John,
I can understand your concern. But now lets look at it another way. I went into a small airport and nobody was around I mean nobody, early in the morning. I decided to do touch and go's on all the runways, shouldn't be a problem, I added in short approaches to get in 5 touches on each runway, total of 4 with opposite direction put in there. 5 days later I get a letter from the airport manager stating that there were multiple complaints about me doing erratic flying at their airport and if it continues they will turn me into the FSDO. I did nothing wrong, but somebody on the ground didn't like my flying and got with his friends and they complained to the airport manager.
That brings up another thing, if a person is upset with you, that person goes to his friends and congers up a rule that you broke and the bunch of them turn you in, it can be from drinking before flying to just about anything they can think of, does this happen, yes it does.\
I think we just need to keep away from the FAA and let them do their job.
If you have a problem with a pilot, go talk to him. Best of all stay out of his flying.
One last thing, most of those people that turn people in, their hangers are right on the approach end of the runway. They literally sit in a chair and watch people all day long.
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