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Old 7th Sep 2015, 03:14
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Squawk7700
 
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So Sunfish is driving along in his Toyota Landcruiser from his local Coles supermarket, hurrying along so his chicken Kiev doesn't spoil, tired from 14 hours driving over the weekend, with ASIC card / PPL in the centre console, attached to a lanyard that he got from the trade day at Avalon 2015... and happens to see a Cirrus out his corner window and notices that it's not taking off (accelerating) that well. Sunfish thinks this is because there's a tailwind, however it's actually because the grass is quite wet and the soil soft due to the recent rain from the weekend when Sunfish was away in Temora.

The prudent CPL pilot (with 4,800 hours of experience) of this fine aircraft decides to abort the takeoff for the safety of himself and his passengers (if any) and due to his piloting skills manages to get it stopped in time with very minor damage to the aircraft.

Then Sunfish stops after driving onto the airport premises to become one of the infamous peanut gallery after activating his hub locks, and notices a precise 12 knots of direct tailwind straight down the strip which started to blow up after the attempted takeoff, as it has been doing all day long as the weather front arrived from the west.

The poor pilot not aware that the wind had swung around from a direct cross-wind to his rear quarter was then heard commenting about how the wind had come from behind unannounced; good one Huey. Sunfish is then able to determine from travelling past the airstrip at 80+ kmh in his car with the windows up that the pilot has done the wrong thing by attempting a takeoff with a tail wind.

Then Sunfish gets home, opens pprune to report this incident whilst simultaneously filling out an ATSB incident report using the aircraft call sign and presumably leaving the pilots name and contact details blank as he doesn't even know their name


Sunfish, when you bent the firewall of the hired Cessna 172 at Moorabbin, how many people driving past on Centre Dandenong road lodged an ATSB incident report?
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