dmccormack
Touchdown! Greaser!
- Joined
- May 11, 2007
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- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Dan Mc
It's a beautiful night here (after several very nice days) and lots of folks are out flying.
But tonight -- after 9 -- I heard a small single rather low over the house. I stepped outside and looked up and saw - nothing.
I waited a few seconds thinking it was just behind the trees. Then, I noticed the faintest glow moving overhead as fast as the single sounded. I looked more carefully and could see the faintest outline of the airframe against the moonless sky.
No beacon, no nav lights -- no nothin' but the tiny glow inside the cockpit.
Now perhaps it was an electric failure and he/she was making a beeline to the nearest airport (opposite direction they were flying, BTW).
But if it wasn't, that sort of stuff really makes my skin crawl. Too often it's only the Big Sky and God's grace that keeps us from smacking into each other up there, but the odds of seeing that guy in the darkness are basically nil.
Be careful up there.
But tonight -- after 9 -- I heard a small single rather low over the house. I stepped outside and looked up and saw - nothing.
I waited a few seconds thinking it was just behind the trees. Then, I noticed the faintest glow moving overhead as fast as the single sounded. I looked more carefully and could see the faintest outline of the airframe against the moonless sky.
No beacon, no nav lights -- no nothin' but the tiny glow inside the cockpit.
Now perhaps it was an electric failure and he/she was making a beeline to the nearest airport (opposite direction they were flying, BTW).
But if it wasn't, that sort of stuff really makes my skin crawl. Too often it's only the Big Sky and God's grace that keeps us from smacking into each other up there, but the odds of seeing that guy in the darkness are basically nil.
Be careful up there.