Zane,
There is a good reason for the questioning of how I paid for the plane but it was an overzealous application of IRS law being used in my case and those guards should have used some common sense in my situation. Given the pressures of that time nobody was willing to do anything but go by the book, and they were. The law is in place to make a person declare in advance amounts over 10,000 to the IRS to avoid tax evasion, to limit money laundering and to deny finance of terrorism with US funds. I believe theirs was a reaction to the pressure of the situation. I know cooler heads were in place when I walked over to visit with patrol guards, both Canadian and US on the way in. Same laws were in place 3 days earlier but I felt like I was coming back to a different country.

dirtstrip wrote:I just saw this too, its awful for everyone concerned, including the family of the pilot. As for the remaining sane pilots, it may be we will have to start studying now to pass the mental illness portion of our upcoming medicals. Mine comes up in September.

That was actually referenced by a TV reporter, she stated ALL GA pilots should be required to undergo mental health evaluations. No problem, I'm flying under light sport so no more third class medicals. I do maintain a CDL for driving my 40,000 lb. crane down a busy road, no questions asked there. We all owe Tiger Woods a big vote of thanks for holding his mea culpa today, it wiped Austin off the news, that and the quarreling figure skaters. The news show I watched tonight had less then 30 seconds of Austin, and 10 minutes or more of Tiger.

Back country bush piloting and mental health are mutually exclusive. On the test you will have to check one box or the or the other and judging by the flying videos that have been taken down recently, you may not participate in those either.

If he just had to do it, I really wish that dude has crashed into that building with his SUV, crew-cab dually, or motorhome instead of his airplane.

To bad he didn't use a Cadillac Escalade with 24" bling rims. I'd like to see less of them trying to run me off the road while talking on their cellphones

Word on the 'net in Austin is that the guy hit the top of a parked car and part of an embankment before he smashed into the building. Apparently he was trying to avoid power lines (may have tried to fly under them)!

dirtstrip wrote:Back country bush piloting and mental health are mutually exclusive. On the test you will have to check one box or the or the other and judging by the flying videos that have been taken down recently, you may not participate in those either.

Some videos were taken down? Who took them down? The commies at Youtube? This double standard with regards to our free speech just burns me up.

Why does this forum keep logging me out? I have to log back in to reply or post.

My biggest fear now with this whole thing is that we see a few copycats that make things even worse...

Fisherman,
No commies, they were pulled down by the posters themselves because of anticipated backlash from FAA and the over interest from the news media looking to keep so called "renegade" pilot behavior on the front page. They may be back, but for now they are just trying to keep their heads down for a while. No names please.

TomD wrote:A beautiful example of the best government money can buy, and the Supreme's just made it worse.
TD

And I thought everbody studied the US Constitution and the firts 10 Amendments. Oh thats right, public education.

tim

There are far better legal minds that mine that feel the Constitution does not provide the same rights to businesses as it does to individuals.

Bet the media will be blessed with huge amounts of political ad money this Fall.

After the Murrah building truck bomb in OK and also after the Twin Towers there was a rash of barrier construction both on the ground (cement barricades) around government buildings and also vertical ones that were put in place around some of the taller privately owned buildings. If the pilot of the plane at Austin struck a car roof trying to get around power lines to hit the building then he considered the power lines to be a barrier. Maybe adding additional lines around government buildings would be an appropriate and immediate solution like what is being called for in the media. The idea certainly is in line with what has been done in the past. Nobody ever demanded more stringent regulations for driving trucks, either bomb laden ones or otherwise after the attack at OK and media seems to have missed that whole out- of- control van rental business thing that made it easy to just walk off the street and rent one.
Now back to studying for the mental illness section of my next medical. Where was I, Oh yeah, the section written by Sigmund Freud about the irrational fears of unregulated General Aviation, titled: Penis Envy.

Tim

i know!!! barage baloons!!! just like on omaha beach during ww 2 . the gov will spend 6 to 7 million researching th feasability, then do an environmental impact study for a few million more, then spend 5-6 billion on the damn things and employ 100 guys to put them up around gov bldgs... there! !! i created jobs!!!!!!

"Keeping watch over private planes difficult"
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/keeping-watch-over-private-planes-difficult-258012.html

To best pass the mental health evaluation coming our way, the following link should be a tremendous help. You may have to copy and paste. If I knew how to post other than a link, I would.
http://www.youmail.com/community/greeti ... do?id=2172

robertc wrote:To best pass the mental health evaluation coming our way, the following link should be a tremendous help. You may have to copy and paste. If I knew how to post other than a link, I would.
http://www.youmail.com/community/greeti ... do?id=2172

A common thread is appearing... the small plane that was crashed into the White House lawn years ago, the September 11th attacks, and now Austin all have one thing in common. A NOSE-WHEEL.

Ground all planes that don't sport big tires, a belly pod, and a TAIL-WHEEL. Reduced emissions, less traffic to avoid, and our buildings would be safe.

Thoughts?

Nice. Good idea.

Wasn't there a guy that tried to steal a taildragger recently and he ended up groundlooping and crashing it before he could even take off?

SpamCanFlier wrote:A common thread is appearing... the small plane that was crashed into the White House lawn years ago, the September 11th attacks, and now Austin all have one thing in common. A NOSE-WHEEL.

Ground all planes that don't sport big tires, a belly pod, and a TAIL-WHEEL. Reduced emissions, less traffic to avoid, and our buildings would be safe.

Thoughts?

I sure love my 58 Skylane and FOX News , but if the above action happens, I guess I'll have to get me a Scout!