joining the traffic pattern quandary

"Gene Whitt" wrote in message
nk.net...

Y'All,
Gene is right about the possibility of the FAA types being hiding in the
weeds at your local airport.

I landed at Albany, OR about 20 years ago becasue of weather.
Fellow pilot gave me a ride into town and told me his story.

Seem he owned an American Yankee Trainer. He took a lady friend for a
ride and decided to give her a thrill. Thrill consisted of making a low
pass down the runway prior to landing. And he did it and the FAA was
watching and listening.

The FAA approach to improving his flying was to ground him for
90-days. The charge was flying within 500' of another aircraft.
This aircraft happened to be taxiing on a parallel taxiway to the
runway being buzzed.


So he wasn't charged with violating any FAR?



Pilot compounded his problem by announcing on the CTAF that
he was going to make a low pass down the runway.


How could announcing one's intentions compound the problem? Is that not the
purpose of the CTAF?



My opinion that the situation could've and should've been handled
differently.


Only by the FAA, the pilot handled it perfectly.