Bad news day in Sacramento

Boy, nothing like a nice day in Feburary to put GA in the news. I was
watching channel 10 in Sacramento last night. They opened with 3 GA
accidents...

1) Lancair doing aerobatics crashes into neighbors home in Roseville.
One person still missing.
http://www.kxtv.com/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15909
2) Swift flips over at Rancho Murieta airport sending the pilot to the
hospital.
http://www.kxtv.com/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15902
3) Cherokee in San Jose has engine trouble (or something like that).

What way to get attention for GA.

-Robert

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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Boy, nothing like a nice day in Feburary to put GA in the news. I was
watching channel 10 in Sacramento last night. They opened with 3 GA
accidents...

http://www.kxtv.com/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=15902
3) Cherokee in San Jose has engine trouble (or something like that).


I don't think this was in San Jose. San Jose, at Reid-Hillview, had a plane
crash onto Tully road after running out of fuel. A few seconds earlier and
it would have crashed into Eastridge Mall. RHV is one crash away from
closing and this had the potential to be the one. Its also the 2nd RHV
crash in a month where the pilot ran out of fuel. The other landed on 680.

Tom Conner wrote:
RHV is one crash away from
closing and this had the potential to be the one.

One less airport means fewer crashes?

One less airport means fewer crashes?

No, but RHV has been on borrowed time for some time now. All the
paperwork is already done to close the airport (EI study etc). The
developers are circling and its just a question of when. Its an
interesting airport to fly into. Its about the most city-locked airport
I've seen. On final you can expect updrafts from the A/C units at the
shopping mall.

-Robert

Robert M. Gary wrote:
One less airport means fewer crashes?

No, but RHV has been on borrowed time for some time now. All the
paperwork is already done to close the airport (EI study etc). The
developers are circling and its just a question of when. Its an
interesting airport to fly into. Its about the most city-locked airport
I've seen. On final you can expect updrafts from the A/C units at the
shopping mall.

Ever been to the DC to Boston corridor? There's a lot of those... G

I'm trying to remember the most housing crowded airport I flew into as
PIC.

Midway comes to mind. LGA is pretty crowded, so is what used to be
called Washington National.

For general aviation, Lakeway in Austin is in the middle of a housing
development. Some houses near the airport have hangers, not garages.
Gee, the remote control for a garage door is still another radio in the
airplane.

Robert M. Gary wrote:
One less airport means fewer crashes?

No, but RHV has been on borrowed time for some time now. All the
paperwork is already done to close the airport (EI study etc). The
developers are circling and its just a question of when. Its an
interesting airport to fly into. Its about the most city-locked airport
I've seen. On final you can expect updrafts from the A/C units at the
shopping mall.

-Robert

The adjoining homeowners should be able to cash out at valley market
rates, get a bigger home (out of state) and invest the remaining
equity. America, berry berry good !

JG

When I was working in Silicon Valley, I once went to the testing area
in our company. Casually mentioned to the engineer there that I was a
pilot. Was immediately treated to a 20 minute diatribe about RHV -
about how it needs to be closed - about how annoying these little
planes were flying overhead when he went out to relax in his backyard.

He went on and on about how the little planes were mostly just
flying round & round ( pattern ) and about how they were mostly
foreigners who came to San Jose from far away to fly round and round in
his backyard.

The guy is so obsessed that he created a website:
http://www.reidhillview.com/.
Scary.... I would say that he was just a real estate investor buying
a house at a depressed "airport-nearby" price, getting the airport
closed, selling the house at a massive profit, and moving on to the
next airport - except he was so passionate. This was maybe six years
ago; the website is still up.

When I mentioned that the airport was already there when the houses
went up, I thought he was going to hit me, He said something to the
effect that pilots better bow
to the will of the people, or there would be consequences! ( I
imagined mobs of
villagers with torches....

RHV is actually the busiest training airport in the Bay Area.

These days, I mostly don't mention being a pilot - am never sure how
people will react.

- Jerry Kaidor

"Jerry" wrote in message
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When I mentioned that the airport was already there when the houses
went up, I thought he was going to hit me, He said something to the
effect that pilots better bow
to the will of the people, or there would be consequences!

Nah...der Volk.

( I
imagined mobs of
villagers with torches....

At rallies in Nuremberg...

Jerry wrote:
When I was working in Silicon Valley, I once went to the testing area
in our company. Casually mentioned to the engineer there that I was a
pilot. Was immediately treated to a 20 minute diatribe about RHV -
about how it needs to be closed - about how annoying these little
planes were flying overhead when he went out to relax in his backyard.

He went on and on about how the little planes were mostly just
flying round & round ( pattern ) and about how they were mostly
foreigners who came to San Jose from far away to fly round and round in
his backyard.

The guy is so obsessed that he created a website:
http://www.reidhillview.com/.

Funny, one of his links to RHV pictures is another site-PRO RHV.

Scary.... I would say that he was just a real estate investor buying
a house at a depressed "airport-nearby" price, getting the airport
closed, selling the house at a massive profit, and moving on to the
next airport - except he was so passionate. This was maybe six years
ago; the website is still up.

When I mentioned that the airport was already there when the houses
went up,

So that entitles RHV users to force adjoining property to remain garlic
fields.

JG



I thought he was going to hit me, He said something to the
effect that pilots better bow
to the will of the people, or there would be consequences! ( I
imagined mobs of
villagers with torches....

RHV is actually the busiest training airport in the Bay Area.

These days, I mostly don't mention being a pilot - am never sure how
people will react.

- Jerry Kaidor