Under the Wire Fly In 09/19 thru 09/21 T26 Louise, TX

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This will be their 36th Annual fly in . Planning to fly there from West Houston Airport
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Flying V Ranch
 
Exciting, I’m out of town, but please do post future events.
 
I plan to be there.

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Yeah, it was a T6 that my friend sold to the couple. He was pretty torn up. Luckily I left before it happened... I've seen too many crashes.
 
I'm not sure what happened to the T6. I heard they spun in when landing, but for now that's hearsay.

I go to quite a few fly-ins every year. Sometimes it's a rodeo. Everyone wants to do low passes, and often times it's turns into many passes. Add in people trying to take off, people trying to land, and it gets fun.

I was riding along with my buddy in his Champ and we heard a flight of 5 Stearmans heading in. They were ahead of us and it helped us find the field when they did a low pass on runway 14 with smoke on. We decided to stay out to the West until they got down, not knowing if they were doing another pass and we were in no hurry. They turned back into downwind for 14, but then someone on the ground said we're switching to 32. So, the Stearmans came over midfield and entered left downwind for 32. The problem is 32 has a right-downwind pattern, but we just stayed out of the way. They landed and other planes were inbound, so at some point we were going to cross mid-field and enter right downwind, but by then there were 3 or 4 planes entering left downwind, and when we mentioned it was right-traffic, one pilot said, "well, we're using left downwind" and someone else asked "why?". So rather than meet someone on base head-on, we decided to join the crowd and use left downwind and we made it in with no issue.

When we left later that day, we heard someone asking "brown Pacer did you get permission to take off?" and the brown pacer didn't appreciate being questioned, so more drama.

Anyway, did I mention these can become rodeos? Keep you eyes and ears open, you never know what's going to happen at a fly-in.
 
I briefly attended a fly in yesterday morning prior to flying my father to T82 for lunch then a air tour of his old hunting grounds around the Sabinal and Frio river canyons. Last evening one of the attendees I met with mentioned they witnessed a Grumman Chetah almost land on top of a departing C150. Between arriving aircraft and departing ‘general public’ plane rides, offered by the sponsoring flight school, it was becoming a bit of a goat rodeo.
 
I landed about 25 minutes after those Stearmans, heard it all on the radio. Low pass 14, then left downwind 32. When i arrived everyone was doing right traffic 32.

As for permission to takeoff, I didn’t hear anyone issuing that when I left around 2pm. We had two planes depart 14, while two waited to depart 32. Pilots were communicating just fine but it would be nice if the event published some procedures for newbies.
 
There's a video of the crash. Not sure what happened. I wish we could see what got him into this position. I'm guessing trying to slow down for the other landing traffic and just got too slow. Video Link
 
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