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.

WOW......Yet another gotta get home story. He probably had GPS and used it to find the airport.

Haha. I could only imagine. ".5 nm to the runway!! **Submarine warning**Dive Dive Dive"

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.

I used to be assistant manager there when I was in high school, many years ago. There used to be a couple of seriously looney tunes folks who would drop in from time to time and a crackpot who would call and yell everytime a plane went over his Antiques shop on the downwind for 10. Over 700 calls a day sometimes.

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.