It was just the norm for a nunmer of us based at FRG. Especially getting one of us to or from our mechanic at Robinsville (N87). You could climb out of FRG and genrally you'd get a Class B Clearance, but then you might get vectored around or have to climb to some rediculous altitude. So simpler to drop down and scoot under the CBA.
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Fwiw department...
90 minutes in Lake Michigan
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Rules for the race require a raft, not sure why it wasn't deployed...
90 minutes in Lake Michigan
Sailors fight for 90 mins to stay alive after boat sinks in Lake Michigan: 'You feel very alone'
Red Herring crew gets hypothermia while awaiting rescue
phoebewallhoward.substack.com
Rules for the race require a raft, not sure why it wasn't deployed...
billsgs126
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Fwiw department...
90 minutes in Lake Michigan
Sailors fight for 90 mins to stay alive after boat sinks in Lake Michigan: 'You feel very alone'
Red Herring crew gets hypothermia while awaiting rescue
Rules for the race require a raft, not sure why it wasn't deployed...
sourdough44
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To bad, now hitch a ride??
I don’t know I’ve got a rental car. I gotta get back. I’ve been dealing with this plane for a while now my lawn is needs to be mowed and I’m just ready for this crap to be done with for the year. If I go it’ll be flying commercial and I don’t know how easy it’ll be to find a place to sleep
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Dude! Bummer.
Went through my brakes earlier this year because I had a leaking piston seal and decided it was time to do the whole system from top to bottom. Seals - master and caliper, pads, rotors, pump out the old fluid...
I was sure I had a couple sets of pads. Absolutely sure.
Started the master cylinders, both sides. Moved on to the pads on the non-leaking side, got that done, undid the other side, went to put my second set of pads that had to be at the bottom of the box because I new I had more. Just knew it.
It only took a week and a half or so to get a second set of brake pads.
But at least, my airplane was in my hangar...
Went through my brakes earlier this year because I had a leaking piston seal and decided it was time to do the whole system from top to bottom. Seals - master and caliper, pads, rotors, pump out the old fluid...
I was sure I had a couple sets of pads. Absolutely sure.
Started the master cylinders, both sides. Moved on to the pads on the non-leaking side, got that done, undid the other side, went to put my second set of pads that had to be at the bottom of the box because I new I had more. Just knew it.
It only took a week and a half or so to get a second set of brake pads.
But at least, my airplane was in my hangar...
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Wow.
Sounds like it was quite an ordeal even though they survived - And that's with a boat equipped with AIS and an EPIRB, and all of the crew wearing life jackets with strobes and PLBs, plus a ditch bag with spotlights and flares. That is *FAR* better equipped than people ever seem to talk about doing in their airplane, and it was still barely enough.
The Great Lakes have been lethal many a time, and must be respected.
The article said they were delivering it to the next crew who was going to do a race starting tomorrow, so maybe that next crew had the raft already down in Chicago.