Better, Bob?

So.... The aviation expert (expert via living across the street from an airport) says the accident was due to pilot error. He probably works for the FSDO. Really.

As for the news. I realize that news programs have a long history of sensationalizing the most minor of aviation incidents but this one rates an F minus - terrible. The aircraft was a few feet off the runway and didn't appear from the footage to even leave airport property. Zero integrity in journalism.

As for the police officer. There was absolutely no reason to comment on any previous incidents that the pilot may have had. He's a cop. Not a lawyer.

Bender wrote:So.... The aviation expert (expert via living across the street from an airport) says the accident was due to pilot error. He probably works for the FSDO. Really.

As for the news. I realize that news programs have a long history of sensationalizing the most minor of aviation incidents but this one rates an F minus - terrible. The aircraft was a few feet off the runway and didn't appear from the footage to even leave airport property. Zero integrity in journalism.

As for the police officer. There was absolutely no reason to comment on any previous incidents that the pilot may have had. He's a cop. Not a lawyer.

I'd like to hear the neighbor describe what a safe landing looks like. The kind where they never get too low or too slow.

Agreed on all points. So sorry you had a bad day Steve but glad you are ok.

Oh well. Fix it and carry on!!!!!!!!

Gump

Looks like Steve was practicing for Alaska or just practicing......as we all know stuff happens even to great pilots and I am glad he was not hurt. I suspect he will have Yee Haw II put together shortly and be back in the air.

Unfortunate news coverage but par for the course. " Too low and slow for a safe landing" ????????

Wow, I usually cut non-pilot reporters some slack, but that was the worst aviation reporting I've seen in a long time. The cop bit was especially gratuitous. Ugh.

Bad luck. I find that some of my best landings happen right after I get too low and too slow. Maybe the neighbour aviation expert could set me right.

Also, low and slow makes ground loop a non-event. Unless there is a big ditch near the runway.

Yikes! Having been the pilot behind the yoke of a plane that got bent, my first read of the title of this post got me thinking about how insensitive we can be to some of our pilot brethren. Then I get to the prop comment at the bottom, and think about how that adds insult to injury when the video clearly shows a plane with a shredded prop and the reporter talks about pieces of prop all about.

I do not know the original poster or the pilot of the subject bird, and I am not trying to pick a fight. I have seen some videos of that pilot flying that plane, and he appears to be a heck of a better pilot than I am, and I commend him on how he can wrangle the performance out of it.

I am not certain about the ability to modify the topic of a thread, but I think that it might be a decent thing to do, if possible. You just never know when you are going to be the guy that gets the news coverage, and you expect stupidity and insensitivity from the media, you just hope that it doesn't get heaped on by other folks with a pilot certificate in their wallet.

We are all one gust of wind away from being the subject of the next post.

Thanks,
Bob

Well said. And one day I hope to fly 10% as well as he does in the videos that he posts.

SpamCanFlier wrote:Yikes! Having been the pilot behind the yoke of a plane that got bent, my first read of the title of this post got me thinking about how insensitive we can be to some of our pilot brethren. Then I get to the prop comment at the bottom, and think about how that adds insult to injury when the video clearly shows a plane with a shredded prop and the reporter talks about pieces of prop all about.

I do not know the original poster or the pilot of the subject bird, and I am not trying to pick a fight. I have seen some videos of that pilot flying that plane, and he appears to be a heck of a better pilot than I am, and I commend him on how he can wrangle the performance out of it.

I am not certain about the ability to modify the topic of a thread, but I think that it might be a decent thing to do, if possible. You just never know when you are going to be the guy that gets the news coverage, and you expect stupidity and insensitivity from the media, you just hope that it doesn't get heaped on by other folks with a pilot certificate in their wallet.

We are all one gust of wind away from being the subject of the next post.

Thanks,
Bob

That's because I couldnt watch the whole video until my neighbors got done downloading their daily buzz. The article that accompanied that video was even worse. I'll change the title though.

That deputy looked like he hasn't missed a donut break in a long time.

I always try to give my "demonstrations" away from the aerodrome. Does make for the possibility of an expensive retrieval but no experts around to offer opinion.

Hey, at least they didn't talk about a flight plan!

I love the new title! Good work Nosedragger.

It sounds like the start of a three guys walk in to a bar joke.

Cheers!

heck, no big deal , carry on steve...decent save looks like to me...

Gossip cop... Hahahaha.

Reading yesterdays Idaho State Journal paper just now, I see "it" is being covered there also.

GB, you beat me to it, I was going to inquire as to whether or not a FLIGHT PLAN had been filed Much ado about almost nothing, typical Handy to have folding wings in a case like this! I think that's my trailer I sold Steve a while back, good to see it again. Back to our usual business, nothing happening here. Must have been a slow news day.

As aviators we come to expect this kind of reporting. That field reporter is the bottom of the rung and was looking for ways to step up his game so the producer will send him to cover a convenience store robbery. They forgot to mention the pilot bravely steered the plane away from a school playground full of children.

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Gossip cop reminds me of someone