The Piper Aztec and Scary Pilot Stories
#21
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Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 142
freezing precip/no approach
I was working as a ramp rat at Bay Bridge in MD. The weather was 100 overcast and about 1/2 mile. We were standing outside and heard a plane .... all of sudden a C-210 pops out covered in ice lands (sorta) gets the plane on the nose wheel and gives himself a nice q tip prop. The guy taxis in and gets a ride to the hotel and said he will worry about the plane tomorrow morning. and was trying to get to home to PA
Get work at 7 am he and the plane were gone. Bad enough he flew in freezing precip but I have no idea how he found the runway there was no instrument approach.
Get work at 7 am he and the plane were gone. Bad enough he flew in freezing precip but I have no idea how he found the runway there was no instrument approach.
#22
I was working as a ramp rat at Bay Bridge in MD. The weather was 100 overcast and about 1/2 mile. We were standing outside and heard a plane .... all of sudden a C-210 pops out covered in ice lands (sorta) gets the plane on the nose wheel and gives himself a nice q tip prop. The guy taxis in and gets a ride to the hotel and said he will worry about the plane tomorrow morning. and was trying to get to home to PA
Get work at 7 am he and the plane were gone. Bad enough he flew in freezing precip but I have no idea how he found the runway there was no instrument approach.
Get work at 7 am he and the plane were gone. Bad enough he flew in freezing precip but I have no idea how he found the runway there was no instrument approach.
WOW......Yet another gotta get home story. He probably had GPS and used it to find the airport.
#23
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Joined APC: Feb 2012
Position: PNF
Posts: 622
#24
On Reserve
Joined APC: Mar 2014
Position: Aztec Captain
Posts: 16
I was working the ramp on an IFR day and it was right at ILS mins: 200 and 1/2. I'm sitting at the desk and I hear over tower frequency "Ummm, tower? I don't think I'm on the runway. I'm on a road!" This guy in a bonanza somehow was shooting the ILS and saw the road that is probably a half mile short of the threshold and kind of parallels the runway and he just put it down right there! He landed fine and everybody was okay. I then proceeded out to the road in my fuel truck and filled him up because he was going to take off on the road and hop over to the airport! Luckily the FAA put a stop to it before that could happen. Which made fitting a bonanza with a 33 foot wingspan through a 28 foot gate an interesting ordeal.
#25
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Joined APC: Apr 2009
Position: What day is it?
Posts: 963
I was working as a ramp rat at Bay Bridge in MD. The weather was 100 overcast and about 1/2 mile. We were standing outside and heard a plane .... all of sudden a C-210 pops out covered in ice lands (sorta) gets the plane on the nose wheel and gives himself a nice q tip prop. The guy taxis in and gets a ride to the hotel and said he will worry about the plane tomorrow morning. and was trying to get to home to PA
Get work at 7 am he and the plane were gone. Bad enough he flew in freezing precip but I have no idea how he found the runway there was no instrument approach.
Get work at 7 am he and the plane were gone. Bad enough he flew in freezing precip but I have no idea how he found the runway there was no instrument approach.
Had a guy come in one Saturday afternoon with a brand new Seminole the first year they came out. Hot dogged it into a parking spot and q tipped the right prop back about 6". Figured he was there for a couple of days. Opened the next morning and found a hacksaw and the prop tips back about 1" past the q, sitting on the picnic bench...
Love that place....great memories.