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Old August 3rd 05, 09:07 PM
john smith
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Montblack wrote:
Final Saturday evening: Adam A-500 plane (twin booms, push-pull engines)
was behind something that wasn't bugging out soon enough. A-500 was
debating the go around, you could tell in the way (s)he was dancing
around on final. At the last second slower plane pulls out (couple
hundred feet above the runway?) leaving the Adam to decides whether to
grab the open runway or not. Pilot went for it, but (s)he was dancing
all the way down. That one got a little close.


Unless it happened twice, it was Friday about noon.
I was finishing up loading the plane to depart and looked up in time to
see the A500 dancing from side to side to increase spacing from a Cherokee.
I had just packed the radio away a couple minutes earlier, so I didn't
hear the exchange with the tower. Somebody didn't follow directions
and/or the tower didn't follow the situation closely enough.
The Cherokee leveled off and banked left over our campsite while the
A500 continued to land long.
The A500 was south of the Rwy09 centerline when he started to initiate a
go-around before the town issued corrections.
It was interesting to observe.