ueberflieger
Ueberflieger
I think that you should be far more accurate in your postings about the INCIDENT and not ACCIDENT as you report it. Yes you are quite correct that a student pilot had an incident and not an accident. See the FAA report dated 30/11/07 The aircraft involved struck a taxiway sign. There is damage to the underside of the starboard wing.The damage is not even close to costing $30.000, if this was the case the aircraft would be a total loss and we would be replacing it with another.
FACT: We have never had a forced landing in the everglades,with or without an instructor on board the aircraft due to an engine failure in the last two weeks or in the last two years since I have been at OFT. The aircraft that you say was uncontrollable on touch down was a C152, and the vibration that you say, was from the nose wheel, called nose wheel shimmy which is due mainly from the fact that students and some instructors fly the approach and touch down too fast and do not take the weight off of the nosewheel. There is no way on this planet that the instrument panel can come off just by a C152 touching down on the runway, so FYI you do not know. Yes you can not please every single student, we do not have control on the local restuarant serving your meal too cold but we can sort peoples problems out if they come and talk to us. Any flight school that consistantly flys 3500 hours per month 36000 - 42000 hours per year will have some problems of some nature. The average flight school in the UK probably flys 500-600 hours per month. So I would suggest that you stick to knitting or cooking as probably aviation is not for you, especially as you do not state the correct facts.