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Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:45 pm

Another nail in the coffin.......

...for the Kalispell City Airport....... :( Just what they needed....NOT. Luckily, everyone came out of this with barely a scratch!! I remember doing an annual on that plane when I ran the shop at Strand Aviation years ago.....

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/loca ... 963f4.html
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Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:01 pm

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“I talked to the pilot — he said he just gassed up at the airport,” Brensinger said. “He went to take off and as he was making his turn around, it started putting.”

Like the gas got turned off??
Filled one side and forgot to switch the valve??
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:44 am

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Yeah, bad deal... I've said it before but the way the Kalispell "old" city airport (we won't talk about the sterile, controlled, way out of town new airport) is laid out it is such a great place for a wandering pilot to drop in. Everything you could conceivably need with a minute or so walk, friendly people, cheap pricing for motels etc. (not a high dollar resort area), if I was president every town would have to have an in town airstrip like Kalispell! The area around is great flying, hell anywhere in Montana is. The downside of course is things like this, damn.

One thing for anyone going in there, they have the highest radio towers closet to an airport that I've ever run across, a wonder that they were allowed to go in so close. Just saying....on the south end.
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:56 am

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Pilot fatally struck by moving propeller he tried to manually restart after plane stalled

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1lcbZPX4E
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:05 am

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Man awarded $7.5m for motorcycle crash that shortened his penis by an inch and a half.....Pilots watch out ,,just think how much more he could have gotten if he was in airplane,,

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1lccf1fZM
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:46 am

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Damn, didn't know I was worth $67 million! :D
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:54 am

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hardtailjohn wrote:I ran the shop at Strand Aviation years ago.....


I probably ran into you there then.
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:37 pm

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I worked there from the spring of '85 through '87. Ran the shop the last year and a half. Jim Keller was running it when I got there. Ahhhhh, the good ol' days... joking back and forth with Stockhill's crew, gliders, skydivers, all the fun stuff.....
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:08 pm

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The comments on that article in the OP are disturbing.
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:30 pm

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The comments on that article in the OP are disturbing.


Yeah, but I like this one, from a guy who's obviously willing to do what it takes to educate a few folks ignorant about GA:

mackya, here's my offer to you and any of the other anit-airport.
I will come, Fly into S27 in my modest airplane, I'm not a rich guy I drive a 1989 Toyota truck painted with industrial enamel that I salvaged together out of parts I found around MT, I live in a 900 Square foot home nestled next to a trailer park. I will fly in there, and give you an flight in my plane, We'll go check out the park, the missions, the lake, whatever you want. I'll verse you in FAA regulations, airspaces and the absurd amount of regulated maintenance on the aircraft itself and how we as pilots are kept up to date on safety procedures. If the regs were even half as strick for cars, about 95% of the drivers and automobiles would be illegal. We'll even go fly without headsets on and you can bring a decibel meter if you want to measure the noise levels. The 2 main causes of accidents are fuel exhaustion and CFIT (Controlled flight into terrain, i.e. pilot flies into weather iimproperly). BOTH can be mitigated down to zero risk, there is a problem with pilots who push it on fuel and push the weather, the FAA is addressing that. I'm 100% serious, I will get in my plane, fly it to kalispell and take you for a ride and show you my log books and my planes log books and explain to you how the FAA and local airports work.


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Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:06 pm

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Zane wrote:The comments on that article in the OP are disturbing.


You know, the non flying public only knows what they see on TV or hear about. They just don't know anything factual about aviation in general. Every chance I get I try to explain to them in easy to understand terms, what aviation is all about and what it does for our society in general. Some people nod in agreement, some just don't get it, and some just don't want to get it.

As a retired LEO I can honestly say that I have seen MANY autos, motorcycles, trucks, motorhomes, get loose and run into houses, schools, and other buildings. This does not include numerous train derailments (Oh, they make a big mess!).

I have never worked a plane crash or aviation emergency....EVER. People just don't want to recognize their daily routine is dangerous but oh, those damn airplanes have got to go! One might fall on my house! Really, it's all very stupid of them but you can't tell folks that....
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:30 pm

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I liked the comment about him having zero control whatsoever of the airplane. If he had control it wouldn't of crashed.....classic. I also love all the jazz about F.A.A. "routing" It amazes me not only how ignorant people are, but even more so how quick they are show it off to strangers.
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:04 pm

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Death from above is far more frightening to people than the dangers they know well. Falling off a ladder and banging your skull will kill you just as dead as a Maule falling from the sky, and with a much greater probability of occurrence. It is human nature to oppose the unknown whilst snuggling with the well known, however more perilous it may be.
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Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:29 pm

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The main problem is that the "Quiet Skies" group is led by a real dandy that's on disability from the City, having shown up drunk for work at the City street dept, and just before they let him go, falls off a piece of machinery and claims disability. At any rate, he's bought a hous near the airport and has decided it's dangerous, and he's got a huge mouth and nothing but time to put in on getting the airport shut down. As usual, it doesn't matter so much wether the babble is true, if you get enough of it out there and are backed by a few loud mouths, people wind up listening. It's been a real battle! Unfortunately this really gave them some ammo to get things shut down.
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