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| Needs a check up from the neck up  |
Check out this emergency landing landing __________________________ The entire reason for the Second Amendment is not for hunting, it’s not for target shooting … it’s there so that you and I can protect our homes and our children and and our families and our lives. And it’s also there as fundamental check on government tyranny. Sen Ted Cruz | ||
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Nice work, Vince! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Wow - glad he got it down before coming around curve and dealing with those power lines. He surely had no idea that was coming up! You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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If he had taken on enough fuel, he would not have had to be a hero for a day... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Scary enough not checking the gas in the flat prairies with nearly unlimited decent emergency landing areas but to not check the gas in mountainous areas is unbelievable. Makes one wonder what else he might have skipped: preflight check including oil (fuel obviously skipped, but sumping the tanks), engine runup/magneto check, safety/ takeoff briefing including picking an abort point, and so forth. ------------- $ | |||
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If you guys went to the local airport and looked at the condition many airplanes are in you would never fly one. Bad pilots tend to weed themselves out without much help. Hopefully not by landing on your roof. | |||
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Every runway I've landed on was straight. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
"Always fly the aircraft all the way through the crash." Bob Hoover Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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This really surprises me. I've tweaked the checklist the school I go to uses. I changed literally the first thing on the checklist to check the fuel with a dipstick. The school's checklist had me checking the gauges, which I still do later. If I need fuel, I want to order it and get in the queue as soon as possible so I can get in the air as soon as possible. Year V | |||
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Agreed, I was putting the majority of the hours on the C150 I was using (owner mostly flew her C177 instead) for the brief time I was working toward my checkride. Even if I was the last to fly & topped it up, I'd still visually check the fuel. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| I'd rather have luck than skill any day  |
According to this article, "He currently works as a flight attendant for Allegiant Airlines, and he said he is working to become a commercial airline pilot." Me thinks that running out of gas won't look favorable on his resume... | |||
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