There was a plane crash at BLI yesterday afternoon.
Small airplane crashes at Bellingham International airport | Bellingham Herald
Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 is such an eye-opening demonstration of Microsoft’s Azure cloud capabiluty that after seeing it I went and bought a bunch of Microsoft stock.
It did, however, have some infamous glitches at first, such as the “Melbourne Monolith”
Ha! Those are some great ones. And flying under the Eiffel Tower sure looks like fun.
but can you still land at Meigs Field?
I wish.
I’ll never forgive Mayor Daley for that.
If you are a private pilot (you do not have a commercial pilot’s license) does that mean you have to refuse any money someone offers to fly you from one place to another?
For example: You live in a remote area of the country and your neighbor asks you if you can fly him to a city 200 miles away. He says he will pay for the fuel to get there and back.
Do you have to refuse his offer to pay for the fuel? You either fly him for free or not at all since you do not have a commercial pilot’s license?
I landed there years ago as a student pilot en-route to Oshkosh. they should add a B-17 to the plane mix along with Daley’s house as a yearly flight simulator competition.
I had a friend who was a private pilot fly up to visit and he told me parking fees for his plane overnight at Meigs Field were less expensive than parking a car in a paid garage for the night. I looked it up. He was right…it was cheaper.
Not exactly. It’s nuanced. See this article for more.
Thanks.
Reading that it seems safest to never collect any money or other compensation. You could probably get away with it if it was truly innocent, just flying a buddy this one time for his cancer treatment and he paid for the gas.
But any time it is open to this much interpretation I am not sure I would want to risk my hard earned pilot’s license for a tank of gas (I know that can be expensive).
The lawyers are writing scare stories; the FAA has better things to do than bust folks flying their friends to lunch or cancer treatments.
At the same time there are a lot of “enterprising” pilots who think “Uber can do it, why can’t I?” Real quickly helping a friend turns into helping a “friend”, turns into running a side hustle advertised on TwitFace. Those guys deserve the Federal enema they soon receive.
A TBM Avenger ditches in Florida.
Officials said a TBM Avenger performing in the warbird parade had a mechanical issue and the pilot was able to bring the plane down close to the shore…
No injures were reported on the ground or in the water.
The pilot must be super pleased with that landing.
The TBM Avenger is famous for the fact that five of them made up military flight 19 which disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle in 1945 – all five of them, without a trace. And then a Martin PBM Mariner that was sent to search for them also disappeared.
I presume that they are all now somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy.
I saw in a really good 1977 documentary that the Avengers, at least, eventually turned up in Mexico.
Wiki said it was a training mission that was supposed to involve dead reckoning.
If a control tower told them to use the sun for navigation that suggests it was visible. Sad. Makes me wonder how bad the maps were for navigating. There was also radio transmissions that indicated some of the other pilots disagreed with their location and the heading to take.
Not a bad forced landing.
IIRC procedure would have been to open the canopy before ditching; it’d suck to make a nice landing, but tweak the canopy rails just enough that you were trapped inside the cockpit as the aircraft sinks. Even worse to have it sink in 6 feet of water and watch the water surface 12 inches above the canopy top while the cockpit you can’t escape fills with sea water.
Yes. Oddly I would think of this as PIC as part of a mental checklist but the one time I was a passenger during an engine failure I didn’t think to pop the door open. It as a twin and the PIC was rather busy at the time. I sat motionless so as not to disturb his train of thought. When we finally cleared some trees I looked back and could see the prop wash on the upper branches.
Whether it’s water or a ground ditching you can’t find yourself locked into a cockpit because the windows cannot be broken out from the inside. It would take a crash ax to break one.