Who do you think you are?

It was dark outside. I want to see you pick out a cessna with no strobes that is nearly a mile from you from behind at night. I have had to look twice for traffic at an uncontrolled field during the day.

Nice attempt at the low blow about spiked hair. Perhaps you are confusing one of our guys with the DEN Skywest rod with bleached tips. He's a captain. People made fun of guys with bleached tips when I was in high school 10 years ago.

Easy to talk **** from the sidelines, isn't it?

You obviously think these guys show a lack of judgement by reading a prelim report. I think your post shows a lack of judgement on making a conclusion about an incident still under investigation. I sure hope that no-one ever has a chance to second guess something you do before the final report comes out, and you end up having to defend hearsay and conjecture because that's all people will remember. By the time the final report on this comes out this thread will be long gone and you'll have contributed to many "remembering" that the MESA crew were a bunch of low time fools who made a poor decision but managed to avoid a collision.

By the way..... it's "accept" not "except".

Agreed. This reminds me of that UAL guppy crew departing 27L at ORD that avoided the 747 landing 14R.

Excellent job crew!

Here's a bigger question: why was there absolutely no management on the shift? Only controllers, and the two in the tower apparently included one with 1 1/2 years experience and another that just checked out in the tower 1-3 months ago. Pretty low experience to be leaving them alone.

OK jr I have had enough. Your lack of experience and grammar make you look like a fool.:eek: nuff said

PS how's my hair maybe a little more gel.

Zach,

Whe you are a 121 pilot you can speak of the dangers of weekend warriors flying around without any communication or Mode C.

'till then, well you know.

Hey...lets not bash Mesa guys. It's much more fun to bash Cessna! Made in China POS's! One of two Skycatchers (stupid name) bit the dust last week.

The runway is also crowned. Very difficult to see up and over the ridge.

For what it's worth, you can hear the ATC audio here:

http://forums.aopa.org/attachment.ph...8&d=1222333162

somehow, any link trying to take me to AOPA forums throws me back to their main page.. =/