On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 07:44:39 -0700 (PDT), Ricky
wrote:

Have you ever flown to an airshow and yet couldn't land at the field
because it was closed?

Worse... I landed anyway. This was in the mid 1980's.

Two of us, me in my T-Craft and a girlfriend (who had soloed but not
yet taken her checkride) in her own T-Craft, with her mother (who was
a commuter airline pilot). It was an uncontrolled airport, and we had
no radios. Arrived late, X's already on the runway. Being young and
foolish, I figured it was OK to land on the far end of cross runway
which wasn't X'd out... I did, she did, and we left the planes down
alongside the cross runway. As we walked over to the spectator area
an FAA guy came up. Asked if we had just landed, which we couldn't
very well deny... he took down our names and certificate numbers, said
we were in a heap of trouble. Since my girlfriend didn't yet have her
Private, her mother legally was PIC; naturally as a professional pilot
(who should have known better) she was REAL worried.

Bottom line was he let us worry all through the airshow, then before
we left he found us again and said he'd forget it about it as long as
we understood we'd better not repeat the performance.

We got lucky that day.

-Dana


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