stingray
Line Up and Wait
This is really close to home. You may recall a pilot that had a (AA1A I think there called), crashed two winters ago tipping it over with minimal damage. Brake locked up I think was the cause he said. FAA made him do a 709? or something flight to get his license back. I watched him practice and also some of the things he would do with the plane just before he took the ride. I told the A&P he is just going to crash again. He passed the ride and two weeks later crashed again on TO claiming fuel starvation with full tanks. No fuel was found at the site (Home strip). Last year he bought an experimental so he could just work on it himself and did not have to listen to us as far as how things had to be fixed.
Today he crashed trying to get back to the strip after the engine sputtered and maybe quit. Stalled more than likely 300 yds short of the strip. Plenty of places to get down. A 172 that had taken off from his strip quit and landed safely in the same area almost exactly. Was not even an accident just an off airport landing in a swampy area.
It is really sad but there is nothing you can do for someone like this. All this did was give more fuel for closing the airport in town. I wanted to take my son up flying, but now his wife is going to be even more opposed to it. I will see if I can find out how to find it in the data base, but I do not know how long it takes to get there.
Dan
Today he crashed trying to get back to the strip after the engine sputtered and maybe quit. Stalled more than likely 300 yds short of the strip. Plenty of places to get down. A 172 that had taken off from his strip quit and landed safely in the same area almost exactly. Was not even an accident just an off airport landing in a swampy area.
It is really sad but there is nothing you can do for someone like this. All this did was give more fuel for closing the airport in town. I wanted to take my son up flying, but now his wife is going to be even more opposed to it. I will see if I can find out how to find it in the data base, but I do not know how long it takes to get there.
Dan