Lightning hitting Kennedy's jet.

Kingfish wrote:
The article said all "electrical" power was lost. The flight controls
are mechanical, although a landing at a towered field without comm
could be interesting.

Landing at a towered field nordo is no more or less interesting than
landing anywhere else nordo. Watch out for other traffic, land, and
clear the runway. Nothing else really matters much. HVN is a pretty
sleepy place most of the time; you're more likely to find other
traffic at a lot of uncontrolled fields with active flight schools.

HVN is a pretty sleepy place most of the time

Except for the three airlines that fly in & out. I used to work & fly
out of Bridgeport 12nm W.

In article om,
Kingfish wrote:
HVN is a pretty sleepy place most of the time

Except for the three airlines that fly in & out. I used to work & fly
out of Bridgeport 12nm W.

Only somebody who flew out of BDR would think HVN is a busy place :-)

BDR: what an unbelievable waste of a great resource for Bridgeport to help
itself crawl out of a decade's old economic abyss, but for the ratb@$+@rd
neighbors.


"Roy Smith" wrote in message
...
In article om,
Kingfish wrote:
HVN is a pretty sleepy place most of the time

Except for the three airlines that fly in & out. I used to work & fly
out of Bridgeport 12nm W.

Only somebody who flew out of BDR would think HVN is a busy place :-)

BDR: what an unbelievable waste of a great resource for Bridgeport to help
itself crawl out of a decade's old economic abyss, but for the
ratb@$+@rd
neighbors.

????

I think he means the particularly onerous noise abatement and the fight over
runway extension.

"Kingfish" wrote in message
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BDR: what an unbelievable waste of a great resource for Bridgeport to
help
itself crawl out of a decade's old economic abyss, but for the
ratb@$+@rd
neighbors.

????

Only somebody who flew out of BDR would think HVN is a busy place :-)

Everything's relative, right? Before the last commuter airlines beat
feet in '99, Bridgeport was a busy regional airport with three airlines
flying in & out. Now New Haven has the airlines and Bridgeport has 60+
bizjets and NY Helicopters based there. Before the current slowdown in
flight training, students would come over from Westchester & Long
Island to burn up the pattern - drove my pals in the tower nuts.

"Kingfish" wrote:
Before the current slowdown in
flight training, students would come over from Westchester & Long
Island to burn up the pattern - drove my pals in the tower nuts.

Yeah. I'm based in HPN, and we go over to BDR all the time to find some
empty pavement to land on. Why did it drive the guys in the tower nuts?
We were keeping the tower in business.

I'm based in HPN, and we go over to BDR all the time to find some
empty pavement to land on. Why did it drive the guys in the tower
nuts?
We were keeping the tower in business.

I did the same thing when I was instructing at HPN as often times it
got too busy for ATC to work the T&G pattern with heavy airline
trafiic. At Bridgeport it wasn't so much the (then) endless T&G traffic
it was the absolutely clueless students, often with instructors
onboard, that busted the airspace and/or gave bad position reports
and/or screwed up the pattern entry instructions etc. I spent lots of
time hanging out in the tower with my pals and couldn't believe some of
what I'd seen & heard. The pilots that were ahead of the power curve
were never a hassle if they asked for a few circuits, it was the
students & the guys that fly 3 times a year that caused the headaches
for them.

Bizjets? Are you thinking of OXC instead? They have the hangars.


"Kingfish" wrote in message
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Only somebody who flew out of BDR would think HVN is a busy place :-)


Everything's relative, right? Before the last commuter airlines beat
feet in '99, Bridgeport was a busy regional airport with three airlines
flying in & out. Now New Haven has the airlines and Bridgeport has 60+
bizjets and NY Helicopters based there. Before the current slowdown in
flight training, students would come over from Westchester & Long
Island to burn up the pattern - drove my pals in the tower nuts.