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
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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 :-)

by "Kingfish" May 16, 2006 at 12:32 PM


This surprises you that someone would rather fly out to the Vineyard
than drive? You are an idiot



You really are incredibly stupid. The Vineyard is not on the Cape, fool.

You really are incredibly stupid. The Vineyard is not on the Cape, fool

LOL. Mr. Wannabe pilot is now a navigation expert? Martha's Vineyard is
considered part of Cape Cod, dimwit. Hence the phrase "Cape Cod & the
Islands". But once again you miss the point as you always do.

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.

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.

????

"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.

"B A R R Y" wrote in message news:cLnag.71478



If you draw a line from Pittsfield to Hyannis, it's kind of strange they
ended up in New Haven, rather than Oxford, Hartford, Bradley, or Groton. I
wonder what route they were flying?

Just guessing, but the wx Sat was crap. IFR routing probably took them
south toward HVN, then east over th water toward the Cape. They would need
to avoid both the BDL and PVD approach and departure paths, plus need to
avoid the area between Hartford and PVD, as in this area inbound BOS traffic
is descending to cross PVD at 11K. Add a little tap-dancing around havy
precip, and it wouldn't be strange at all to wind up in HVN. Speculation.