On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:42, Bruce Marshall wrote:
| Weird is right... I can tell many a story of rainy nights
| circling that mother, or drilling down thru the 'hole' that always
| seemed to exist right over the airport. Remember all of the
| accidents there including the guy who tried to 'drill' a hole
| through the mountain on final approach to 26. Didn't work out too
| well.
problem with danbury is -- no, problems with danbury are that just as
soon as you cross the threahold on departure you have a.) suddenly
different winds and b.) no choices. fly or die (though in the summer,
in something that stalls slow, you might be able to take advantage of
the trees; then again, i don't know of anybody who survived the
attempt). at least at HPN there's 684 or the reservoir for ditching.
| HPN was usually my alternate.
a flying story: in april 1991 my flying partner and i were coming
home from a trip to florida in a pa-28. we were *so* clever --
forecast was for a front to move in and stall halfway down florida.
we left early -- i was flying first leg -- and landed in daytona; our
timing was such that there was rain at the far end of the runway when
we tied down. we made a motel reservation and went to lunch. got
back, briefing was good, there was a blue hole in the sky to the
north. canceled reservation ant took off for grand strand. landed for
gas, no problem; briefing was fine except the pay phone fell off the
wall during. took off, my leg again, for salisbury, md. nobody there,
so we had to call the guy to come out and sell us gas. while we were
there, the wind picked up bigtime. (prospective question for all faa
exams: should you pay any attention to the views of an atp whose
fiancee is one leg away?) we took off, his leg. at 8500 it was smooth
as glass and dme said we were making 180. scary, because there had to
be payback. which arrived at about 5000 as new york approach brought
us down. really eyeballs out. coming down the hudson low was an
experience. it was late, so HPN was closed, though we got the lights
on okay. coming in over SUNY purchase on final, i was seeing things
you do not normally see, because normally they're under you. but
hell, it was his leg -- if anybody was going to break this airplane,
it wouldn't be me. yoke was at the stop, left, when we crossed the
threshold (wind was 15 gusting to 25, about a 20 degree crosswind).
finally got it down. then a gust and we were about 50 feet in the air
again. thank god for long runways. he got it down, i dumped flaps. we
taxied, i unloaded the plane, he was still in the left seat. i took
the stuff inside the terminal, came back. he was still in the left
seat. finally he looked over. "they do not teach you this stuff," he
said. i said, "yeah, they do, in the chapter that says 'stay in
salisbury.'"
--
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one day, you'll wish it was now.
your wish has been granted.
don't waste it.
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