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Been taken over?
"Kingfish" wrote in message oups.com... Hi Steve, are you in a TRACON or Center? Which facility? I got a taste of international ATC last week flying charters in the Caribbean. On a trip from San Juan to Mustique we talked to SJ Approach/Center, Juliano (French), VC Bird (Antigua) and Piarco (Trinidad). The last controller didn't have radar and relied on our position reports. Thank God for onboard TCAS. I've been at Green Bay ATCT/TRACON for the past fourteen years, I was at Chicago ARTCC for nine years prior. |
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Been taken over?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:22:19 GMT, "Crash Lander"
wrote: I asked my instructor on the weekend what a pilot is expected to do, should he come across a downed plane, or was in the vicinity on another plane that was going down, or making a forced landing. He said that you should tune to the relevant ATC frequency, and inform them... As a matter of fact this happened to me, but there was no urgency. This was around 30 years ago. A student pilot took off cross country into bad weather (sleet and freezing rain) from NY's Orange County Airport (MGJ), despite attempts by others to talk him out of it. Since he owned his own plane nobody could stop him. Apparently he was in town to finalize his divorce and wanted to get home. The plane disappeared, prompting what was described as the largest ground/air search in NY history, but nothing was found. About a week later I rented a Cherokee from Quade's Flight School at MGJ (I recall being irked that the newspapers reported me as a "student pilot") and took my father for a ride. Passing over a ridge, I saw something I took for a patch of snow, but Dad asked me to circle around, and sure enough, it was a plane, just below the crest of the ridge. I called the airport's Unicom and asked the colors of the missing plane. After some delay, we were able to confirm that this was the plane and not an old wreck... I reported the position (VOR radial where it crossed the ridge, no GPS back then) and headed back to the airport. Later investigation revealed that the pilot survived the crash but was trapped in the wreckage with a broken leg. There was no post crash fire; apparently he lit a fire to keep warm some time later... and died of smoke inhalation. Judging from the direction he was going and location where he hit, I surmise he had turned around and was heading back... too late. -Dana -- -- If replying by email, please make the obvious changes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. |
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Been taken over?
Wow, sad story. He survived the crash to be killed by smoke inhalation!
Crash Lander -- I'm not always right, But I'm never wrong! "Dana M. Hague" d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message ... On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:22:19 GMT, "Crash Lander" wrote: I asked my instructor on the weekend what a pilot is expected to do, should he come across a downed plane, or was in the vicinity on another plane that was going down, or making a forced landing. He said that you should tune to the relevant ATC frequency, and inform them... As a matter of fact this happened to me, but there was no urgency. This was around 30 years ago. A student pilot took off cross country into bad weather (sleet and freezing rain) from NY's Orange County Airport (MGJ), despite attempts by others to talk him out of it. Since he owned his own plane nobody could stop him. Apparently he was in town to finalize his divorce and wanted to get home. The plane disappeared, prompting what was described as the largest ground/air search in NY history, but nothing was found. About a week later I rented a Cherokee from Quade's Flight School at MGJ (I recall being irked that the newspapers reported me as a "student pilot") and took my father for a ride. Passing over a ridge, I saw something I took for a patch of snow, but Dad asked me to circle around, and sure enough, it was a plane, just below the crest of the ridge. I called the airport's Unicom and asked the colors of the missing plane. After some delay, we were able to confirm that this was the plane and not an old wreck... I reported the position (VOR radial where it crossed the ridge, no GPS back then) and headed back to the airport. Later investigation revealed that the pilot survived the crash but was trapped in the wreckage with a broken leg. There was no post crash fire; apparently he lit a fire to keep warm some time later... and died of smoke inhalation. Judging from the direction he was going and location where he hit, I surmise he had turned around and was heading back... too late. -Dana -- -- If replying by email, please make the obvious changes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. |
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