This reminds me of an incident several years back on Catalina Island, 20 miles of the coast of Los Angeles.The island is owned by the Wrigley Family (chewing gum) Trust and has an uncontrolled field but the tower is manned for giving field advisories only. One day this guy flies in from LA instead of following the advisory and published traffic pattern of joining on the downwind, he I suppose was lazy and careless and opts to do a straight in, the tower advised him again this was not what they wanted, but he did it anyway.
Bottom line he was refused permission to take off, so he had to fly over a mechanic to remove the wings, rent a truck to transport the now dismantled plane down the hill to the harbour, then hire a barge to take it back across the channel to be unloaded, transported and put back together on the mainland.
Ouch ! I shudder to think what the tab for that was.
Last edited by piperboy84; 3rd June 2012 at 22:09.