Pilots and driving

Well, there are stockyards all along the road to Chino, but that
shouldn't linger in the aircraft.


Maybe not, but it likes to linger every where else.
I smelled it just the other morning while getting ready to buzz out of
Ontario..
I even smelled it when I lived in Anaheim when the winds were blowing just
right.


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

Cub Driver wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:47:17 -0500, "Henry Kisor"
wrote:


plane was redolent of cattle poop. "Oh, it's from Chino," he said, as if
that explained it all, and he offered no details.


Well, there are stockyards all along the road to Chino, but that
shouldn't linger in the aircraft.


Once, while driving down the freeway east of Chino during Santa Ana
winds, I noticed that there was a lot of brown stuff from a nearby
stockyard moving horizontally across the freeway. Hot, dry winds can
carry manure dust everywhere and some of it probably gets into airplanes
at Chino.




- Jeff

"Henry Kisor" wrote in message ...
What is it about Chino, anyway? Some years ago I took a ride on a DC-3 that
was part of an air show at Cable airport in Upland, Calif. When I climbed
aboard I noticed a definite aroma of cow manure.

I have flown over feedlots in Kansas and noticed a definite odor at
over 1000 feet. Also, odor from grass fires gets really strong too.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Gene Seibel wrote:

"Henry Kisor" wrote in message ...
What is it about Chino, anyway? Some years ago I took a ride on a DC-3 that
was part of an air show at Cable airport in Upland, Calif. When I climbed
aboard I noticed a definite aroma of cow manure.

I have flown over feedlots in Kansas and noticed a definite odor at
over 1000 feet. Also, odor from grass fires gets really strong too.

Pulp & paper mills can be nasty smelling at 2500ft or more above them...
there's a mill below one of our local practice areas, and on a hot day it
reeks up there. Add a bit of turbulence and a hood, and you're not going
to have much fun after a while.

That was the only inst. flight I ever had to tell the instructor I was
taking the hood off, because I was afraid I was going to loose it (and my
lunch...)!

Brian.

Jeff Glenn wrote:

Are there any other places that have high potential for pilot
distraction while driving?

My daily commute is a motorway that runs more or less parallel to the
approach path of ELLX (Luxembourg). After many miles, the motorway crosses
underneath the runway over-run (see a picture at
http://www.laca.lu/typo3temp/e3d3be8b25.jpg).

ELLX has a big cargo airline on the field, so on many days I get to see a
nice 747-400, among lots of smaller traffic. Most spectular is a heavy jet
just departing when I go underneath the runway. I have had days where the
roar directly over my head was the first clue of a take-off taking place.
This particular experience has influenced the equipment choices for my
current car, where I specified a transparent sunroof. :-)


Greetings,
Markus

The biggest problem that I have is remembering not to straddle the
yellow line

Tony

--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article ,
Andrew Sarangan wrote:

I remember a discussion recently whether pilots are safer drivers. I
believed that to be true until recently. As a pilot, I tend to look up at
the sky while driving, particularly if an airplane is flying. The other day
I was looking up at the clouds to figure out which direction the wind was
blowing. The car in front of me made a sudden stop. You guessed it. I ran
into that car. This would not have happened had I not been a pilot
distracted by the sky. This is my first auto-incident ever, in twenty years
of driving. I guess that still makes me a safe driver, but not as safe as I
thought I was.




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE