Baaaaad luck

Bill

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A club member had our new 182 away from the area for the weekend, and the plane was damaged at the tiedown. A storm blew up, and a chocked Sabreliner 65 was blown loose across the ramp and impacted our properly tied down 182.

I have no pictures or damage description other than the prop, cowling, and wing strut recieved damage. If repairable, I expect the plane to be down for quite some time.

As luck would have it, that is the plane I scheduled for Gastons, and all the other planes are booked :( .

Ugh.
 
All in all not a good thing for all concerned. Must have been one heck of a storm to move a Saberliner like that.
 
Paging Lance Fisher....

Bill Jennings said:
A club member had our new 182 away from the area for the weekend, and the plane was damaged at the tiedown. A storm blew up, and a chocked Sabreliner 65 was blown loose across the ramp and impacted our properly tied down 182.

I have no pictures or damage description other than the prop, cowling, and wing strut recieved damage. If repairable, I expect the plane to be down for quite some time.

As luck would have it, that is the plane I scheduled for Gastons, and all the other planes are booked :( .

Ugh.
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Maybe Lance or the NC crowd can help you out....
 
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SCCutler said:
From what I have seen in sale prices, the 182 may be worth more than the jet (well, may have been)!
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The 182 was a 2001 model with <600TT on it. Basically a brand new airplane. :(
 
Re: Paging Lance Fisher....

bbchien said:
Maybe Lance or the NC crowd can help you out....
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Lance F in Atlanta has offered me a ride...cool, a ride in an M20J!
 
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Bill Jennings said:
Lance F in Atlanta has offered me a ride...cool, a ride in an M20J!
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Your going to like the 160 Kts. Don't get spoiled, you might have to buy a Mooney!
 
Oh, but a Mooney's so cramped and small ;)
 
Glad it worked out for you Bill! Sorry I couldn't offer to come up you way. Right now, it looks like we're full!

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Dave
 
Bill Jennings said:
I'm looking forward to de-bunking all of the Mooney myths.
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That will start as soon as you get straped in. The only people that can't get comfortable in a Mooney are the ones with short legs and large mid sections (I'm trying to be nice!). They can't find the pedals.
 
Bill Jennings said:
I'm looking forward to de-bunking all of the Mooney myths.
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Mmmm... Mooney... Made my knees feel better just thinking about one. I'm sitting here all cramped up in my truck, which has less legroom than a Mooney! (Well, when you're sitting in the seat... Maybe I should go back to the "bedroom"...)
 
Bill,

That really sucks! :( There's another very sad 182 sitting at MSN - Very inexperienced but well-off pilot ran her brand new Turbo 182 (48 hours on the Hobbs) with G1000 off the runway (A 9,000 x 150 foot runway, mind you :dunno:) and into a ditch. The nose gear is gone, and there's a BIG dent on the underside of the cowl, and the prop is pretty well shredded.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Bill,

That really sucks! :( There's another very sad 182 sitting at MSN - Very inexperienced but well-off pilot ran her brand new Turbo 182 (48 hours on the Hobbs) with G1000 off the runway (A 9,000 x 150 foot runway, mind you :dunno:) and into a ditch. The nose gear is gone, and there's a BIG dent on the underside of the cowl, and the prop is pretty well shredded.
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OMG... I'm gonna be sick. All this talk reminds me of when a microburst hit RDU's West Ramp a while back, GA planes were tossed around pretty badly. One was completely flipped upside-down but still tied down. The whole scene made me queasy, like the photos of the FLA hurricanes. All that beloved bent metal.
 
jdwatson said:
OMG... I'm gonna be sick. All this talk reminds me of when a microburst hit RDU's West Ramp a while back, GA planes were tossed around pretty badly. One was completely flipped upside-down but still tied down. The whole scene made me queasy, like the photos of the FLA hurricanes. All that beloved bent metal.
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I was there right after it happened. Driving thru the terminal space where you wait for the bus looked like someone had taken a baseball and thrown it through the glass panels. There was a part of terminal A that was damaged and you could see insulation hanging down from under the walkway. The signs were all twisted and bent. Then I went to the observation deck and it was a very sad site to see all the planes flipped over and in the grass, not to mention the one that was in the ATC parking lot.

When I came back to work on Monday everyone was like "WE SAW YOU ON TV!!!!! YOU TURNED AROUND AND WAVED!!!!!"

I posted a picture in the photo gallery its the one where the plane is upside down. My friend her plane was a total loss. Sad part, she had just upgraded everything and hadn't updated the insurance, so she didn't get what her plane was worth.
 
I am going to be sick... that's awful. Sorry for your friend's loss.
 
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