Cessna 150, 172 Collide
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Cessna 150, 172 Collide
Near an uncontrolled airport. Tragic accident. http://www.dailybulletin.com/breakingnews/ci_8029822
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A Cessna is a high wing plane and when you make a turn, the wing blocks your vision and you can't see where your turning, That is the reason for a term called clearing turns It's part of the basic instruction. I fly a low wing plane and I love it
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Originally Posted by SteveBricks
No, I didn't.
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2...tampa_bay.html
if interested.......more came out after this article...........made a hard bank trying to get to the proper runway, instead of just making a flyby and flying around to correct itself, he had made a hard bank, and was already descending in altitude and speed and he didnt power up the plane......big time pilot error on his part.........funny thing was my pops was flying back to the same airport with his plane coming from daytona, he landed about 30 minutes after this happened, i heard about a small plane crashing and i just about threw up......until he called
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Originally Posted by dono
You are still safer in the private plane than in your car driving to the airport.
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Corona is down the hill from me a bit. It is an uncontrolled airport, meaning no tower and everyone should talk on the radio and look outside constantly. A busy Sunday afternoon in perfect weather is probably the most dangerous time there. Because Corona is more than 30 nautical miles from LAX, clear of Ontario airspace and is untowered, two-way radios are not required. Personally, I wont fly near there on weekends during the day.
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Can't imagine what it would be like to be walking around looking for a new car or truck and suddenly having bodies and parts of the airplanes raining down upon you. My thoughts go out to them.
I agree with Jim, I am not a big fan of flying anywhere near uncontrolled fields on the weekends. Just yesterday we had a guy come into Durant without making any radio calls, non-standard pattern, just thought he owned the airport I guess. People like that get people killed. Some of the "weekend warriors" you hear flying truly make you wonder what the FAA examiner was smoking when he or she gave that person his or her license...
Sounds eerily familiar to an accident we had at the school a few years back...a 152 belonging to the school doing manuevers out over the lake collided with a 172.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?...1FA058A&akey=1
I agree with Jim, I am not a big fan of flying anywhere near uncontrolled fields on the weekends. Just yesterday we had a guy come into Durant without making any radio calls, non-standard pattern, just thought he owned the airport I guess. People like that get people killed. Some of the "weekend warriors" you hear flying truly make you wonder what the FAA examiner was smoking when he or she gave that person his or her license...
Sounds eerily familiar to an accident we had at the school a few years back...a 152 belonging to the school doing manuevers out over the lake collided with a 172.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?...1FA058A&akey=1
Last edited by RangerPilot; Jan 21, 2008 at 03:33 PM.
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you know those kit planes you build and you take off and land from water,
this is what kills me, my pops and i are fishing 3 or 4 weeks ago on lake tarpon in tarpon springs florida, and this guy is doing touch and goes, flying around the lake etc..........i say " do you have to have a pilots license for one of those, it looks easy to fly" and he said no
the guy lands the thing, cruises up to his house, jumps out, and winches it up onto his lawn
this is what kills me, my pops and i are fishing 3 or 4 weeks ago on lake tarpon in tarpon springs florida, and this guy is doing touch and goes, flying around the lake etc..........i say " do you have to have a pilots license for one of those, it looks easy to fly" and he said no
the guy lands the thing, cruises up to his house, jumps out, and winches it up onto his lawn
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Whole sections of the Federal Air Regulations are devoted to kitplane building, experimental planes in general, requirements for building and flying, etc. etc.
About the easiest thing to get right now is the "Sport Pilot's" license...day visual flight rules flying only, in small airplanes. No FAA medical required, just a driver's license and your sport pilot's license. Not a lot you can do, but enough to let you hop around the bean patch.
About the easiest thing to get right now is the "Sport Pilot's" license...day visual flight rules flying only, in small airplanes. No FAA medical required, just a driver's license and your sport pilot's license. Not a lot you can do, but enough to let you hop around the bean patch.
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It will be a while till the official report comes out, but it looks like one of the planes was parallel to the runway and the other struck it at a right angle - cockpit side.
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Originally Posted by SteveBricks
It will be a while till the official report comes out, but it looks like one of the planes was parallel to the runway and the other struck it at a right angle - cockpit side.
http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id...30X00124&key=1
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