Strangely, this time not qmdv.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20100222/NEWS/100222018

The comments on that RGJ article are really....interesting.

1SeventyZ wrote:The comments on that RGJ article are really....interesting.

Best one was "Must have run out of fuel before he found the IRS office."

One more in the exclusive club. I will look up the tail number and send him a note of welcome.

Tim

With each passing day our society gets dumber.

Gotta admit cool flying though...

Glide under a bridge. Park it between cars moving 65 MPH. Smilin' pretty for the paparazzi.

One has to love the flexibility in a 50's C180.

Gump

N7299A is registered to the party in question but it is a 1957 172 with an O-300 and the certificate was issued about a month ago. Must be a tail wheel conversion kind of like Gumps.

Pilot and two passengers. Cannot be overlaoded when out of fuel. Glad they are safe. Story says they called NTSB. Is that cus of the broken tail wheel. When I made the same move a year and a half ago they let me call tripple A for gas and let me take off from the freeway. AS it turned out, one of the NHP was a privot pilot and Wells is more rural so that may have played a part in letting me depart.

tim

A very good ending, that's more like it! I like the flying under the overpass on final part, very cool! Too bad about the tailwheel though I do have to wonder...how do you mess it up and nothing else?

qmdv wrote:Cannot be overlaoded when out of fuel.

Maybe we should email him some light reading.

All in all, a good outcome. The tailwheel converted early 172 does have a nice look.

" A mechanical failure caused me to essentially run out of gas"

I'm going to use that one on my day of infamy-

I fly a '57 172 from time to time. If that connector link that connects the selector to the tank fails.....you can't change tanks.

Tim

mepps1 wrote:

Best one was "Must have run out of fuel before he found the IRS office."

Ahh an innocent guy died that day.... pretty poor taste dude....

The RGJ article calls it a Cessna 180, but the cowl looks like an old C172 in the pics. If it is, he's a braver man than me flying four adults, baggage, and full fuel in an O-300 powered beast at this altitude.

Gump

It has a C/S prop, nice looking plane.

Glad all are safe.

All I am gonna say is, if the story I heard is true, when the feds get done looking real close there gonna get real real busy........

It is registerd as a 172 with an O-300. Did not know you could put a constant speed prop on that unless of course they put in an O-360 in and misplaced the paperwork.

Tim

Just had video on the evening news, and it kinda looked to me to be a 172 tailwheel conversion with a 180 Lyc.. they said "Great piece of flying".. He looked pretty cool, and said "It was just a landing that we train for all the time in case of engine failure, had to get it down pretty quick tho, to miss the overpass, and broke my tailwheel."

I say "Good job, handled the media perfect, everybody's fine, and plane ain't hurt much either".

The comment "A mechanical failure essentially caused me to run out of gas" may be very valid this time. I own a 57 172, and I recieved an AD few months ago about replacing some parts in the fuel selector. I don't remember all the details because my plane did not have the parts they wanted replaced, but any old cessna that had some PMA'd parts used to rebuild the fuel valve had to have them replaced immediatly, because some of the cams had broken in the valve. if I can find the letter I will post it later.

Be nice if this guy ended up in Joe's court instead of the FFA's. Having said that, the FAA treated me quite well I thought. I also ran out a fuel cus of a mechanical failure. They belived the evidence that I gave them. Is a bladder mechanical?

Tim

Franklin 220 and the conventional gear kit I was informed. Lots of get up and go when running, and a fine job of handling the engine out.

Gump

qmdv wrote:Be nice if this guy ended up in Joe's court instead of the FFA's. Having said that, the FAA treated me quite well I thought. I also ran out a fuel cus of a mechanical failure. They belived the evidence that I gave them. Is a bladder mechanical?

Tim

At the end of the first sentence......"FFA's" ???? I didn't know the "Future Farmers of America" are involved with aircraft incidents???