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Staff member
"Peters said the FAA is investigating whether the landed was legal."
One can presume there are no editors in news rooms anymore.
Everybody knows you can't see squat over the nose...What would you expect a prudent pilot to do, if he saw a car moving towards him aggressively?
Cannonball Run I think. It was Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLouise in a Maule.There was a time when one stopped for a six pack what movie was it
mud on the tires my taxiway at the shop
Reminds me of Murph landing in the field across from the convenience store in Rotan, Texas to get some beer and the local city cop pulled the same thing. He couldn't find anything to violate him for so Murphy grabbed his licence and told him it was getting dark and couldn't land at the lodge in the dark so when he figured out what he was getting him for let him know. Monday morning the FAA had nothing so that was the end of it.By far the smartest thing that guy did was get the hell out of there!View attachment 36271 I landed a 152 on a state hwy in WI for a Hardware store grand opening. No problems, landed just at dawn no one saw me. But when I went to leave 3 days later (sunday morning) a local yokel parked next to the airplane went ballistic because I could show him no proof I had OK to take off. So he had local dispatcher call FAA hotline. Nobody answered. Then he called County sheriff for backup. Dispatcher called ballistic cop back said no one answers at FAA hotline our next call would be to NTSB in Chicago, should I call that. Cop says yes. So now I have 4 cop cars around me now temporarily housed in the back seat of ballistic cop's squad car, and the NTSB standby guy in Chicago says hell no if he knew if anybody had permission to take off from a state hwy in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Most of the local cops just wanted to stop traffic and let me take off but after the ballistic guy got the NTSB involved I caved...returned the next day with a friend and pulled the wings off and trailered to a friend's private grass strip.
Our lawyer did some research, and the only thing I coulda been nabbed on of course was catch all FAR careless and reckless, and Wisconsin hwy ordinance requiring a permit for anyting over 8 ft wide.
ON some other occasions when john law approached I managed a quick get away when young, reckless, and a little quicker than I am now!
.........I was airport mgr so if landing in local area to promote something I told any questioners that local control tower had given me permission.. Tower chief always went along with it but he of course had no authority to OK any landing at other than our local airport. Cops don't like surprises, and almost all of them have no knowledge of airplanes, FARs, etc......
Years ago, an old guy in an Ercoupe landed here to get gas right after a big rainstorm. A deputy sheriff showed up looking for him just after he left. He had landed on a dirt road to wait out the weather and someone called it in as a plane crash.
At what age does one become "an old guy?" 8)
That definition keeps going up.
When you're older than meAt what age does one become "an old guy?" 8)