Dangers of Road Landings

Good chance he was relating experiences as they relate to what you were
about to do in your flying career. I do the same thing. Not to impress
young pilots with my daring-do, but to pass on the experience I got the
hard way.
I've done more stupid things and made more mistakes than any room full
of a hundred pilots or more. Fortunately I learned from those mistakes
before one killed me.
I've logged more than 13,000 hours in the lowest reaches of the
airspace system in both airplanes and helicopters, and another 9-10,000
hours at in the safer altitudes. The areas of most danger are those
down low.
Cheers
Selway Kid

This is a really good idea. It's also a really good idea to sit down with
an experienced local glider pilot before flying in or near mountains. You
can get an accurate idea of where to expect downdrafts and rollers.

Seth

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
k.net...
This is good advice.
If I had my way, I'd have every student pilot in the world sit down and
have a cup of coffee with an experienced ag pilot as a pre-requsite to the
PPL.
Dudley Henriques

wrote in message
oups.com...
As a pilot who operated off county roads, has made many landings on
freeways and interstate highways, I don't feel uncomfortable doing it.
But, the average pilot doesn't give much thought to the possible
consequences or the hidden dangers. Much more to it than meets the eye.
This was an intentional post to make pilots think and to stir the pot a
little. This includes airplanes and helicopters.
Selway Kid

Yea, when I was living in Rural North Dakota would not be uncommon to see AG
aircraft on the road or taxing down the street!


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
k.net...
This is good advice.
If I had my way, I'd have every student pilot in the world sit down and
have
a cup of coffee with an experienced ag pilot as a pre-requsite to the PPL.
Dudley Henriques

wrote in message
oups.com...
As a pilot who operated off county roads, has made many landings on
freeways and interstate highways, I don't feel uncomfortable doing it.
But, the average pilot doesn't give much thought to the possible
consequences or the hidden dangers. Much more to it than meets the eye.
This was an intentional post to make pilots think and to stir the pot a
little. This includes airplanes and helicopters.
Selway Kid

I did some spraying near McCluskey one year!! You have to be from there
to know where it is.....Or, be a spray pilot ggg

High on the list of the hazards of road landings is that you might end up on
the 6 o'clock news...as was the case with the pilot in Baton Rouge.

Bob Gardner

wrote in message
oups.com...
As a pilot who operated off county roads, has made many landings on
freeways and interstate highways, I don't feel uncomfortable doing it.
But, the average pilot doesn't give much thought to the possible
consequences or the hidden dangers. Much more to it than meets the eye.
This was an intentional post to make pilots think and to stir the pot a
little. This includes airplanes and helicopters.
Selway Kid

Well, it was the takeoff that he messed up.
I tend to think that all the attention was a large factor. He may have been
a little too focused outside the plane. On one occasion I had to fight a
tremendous urge to show off.
Years ago with 200hrs under my belt, I got into the line-up to fly down the
Chicago lake front during the Air & Water Show. Fighting that little voice
saying "Go ahead and roll it, you can do it! The crowd will love it" wasn't
easy to ignore, but I did. The likely outcome would have been a Tri-Pacer
and it's dead pilot being fished from Lake Michigan or worse, an encounter
with beach comers.

Marty

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
...
High on the list of the hazards of road landings is that you might end up
on the 6 o'clock news...as was the case with the pilot in Baton Rouge.

Bob Gardner

does anyone have the video from this?


"Marty" wrote in message
...
Well, it was the takeoff that he messed up.
I tend to think that all the attention was a large factor. He may have
been a little too focused outside the plane. On one occasion I had to
fight a tremendous urge to show off.
Years ago with 200hrs under my belt, I got into the line-up to fly down
the Chicago lake front during the Air & Water Show. Fighting that little
voice saying "Go ahead and roll it, you can do it! The crowd will love it"
wasn't easy to ignore, but I did. The likely outcome would have been a
Tri-Pacer and it's dead pilot being fished from Lake Michigan or worse, an
encounter with beach comers.

Marty

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
...
High on the list of the hazards of road landings is that you might end up
on the 6 o'clock news...as was the case with the pilot in Baton Rouge.

Bob Gardner

("John Doe" wrote)
does anyone have the video from this?


1973 Cessna 210L using the road as a runway.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2965211C
(Same link as below ...wait for it. Link still works on Halloween)


http://www.wafb.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=565126&h1=Pilot%20Who%20Mad e%20Emergency%20Landing%20Crashes%20Plane%20on%20S econd%20Attempt&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=188533&LaunchPag eAdTag=News&activePane=info&playerVersion=1&rnd=72 883635


Montblack

Montblack wrote:
("John Doe" wrote)

does anyone have the video from this?

1973 Cessna 210L using the road as a runway.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2965211C
(Same link as below ...wait for it. Link still works on Halloween)

http://www.wafb.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=565126&h1=Pilot%20Who%20Mad e%20Emergency%20Landing%20Crashes%20Plane%20on%20S econd%20Attempt&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=188533&LaunchPag eAdTag=News&activePane=info&playerVersion=1&rnd=72 883635

Anybody figure out a way to save them to disc?

does anyone have the video from this?


1973 Cessna 210L using the road as a runway.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2965211C
(Same link as below ...wait for it. Link still works on Halloween)

Actually, thanks to John Osterhout, we've got it now, too!

See it on our video page at:

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm

The specific video is:

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...off_Crash.mpeg
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Iowa City, IA
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