I want one! Hovering Cessna lands on freeway

[TrafficPilot]

More absolute tosh from the Daily Mail.

Durousseau, 60 and a veteran pilot, flew his Cessna 172 four-seat aircraft beneath the Vista Boulevard bridge, hovered above the freeway and found an opening between westbound vehicles.LINK (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253094/It-like-proper-place-land-Pilot-stops-traffic-engine-problems-force-bring-plane-busy-highway.html)

[Duchess_Driver]

Spelling mistake...journalists, eh?

It should be HOOVERED above the highway.

[ab33t]

Did not see the chute or rotors , I really want one of those C172's

[MichaelJP59]

Maybe he had a 60kt headwind!

[treadigraph]

This (http://www.collectair.com/cessna.html) is a hovering Cessna!

[BHenderson]

I think the reporter meant to say: 'I bled off speed in ground effect whilst traffic reacted to the presence of the aircraft, before then landing on the road.'

I think 'hovered' is easier for the general public to understand. Lots of clues in the report.

[flybymike]

Another one of those tailwheel C172s I see...

[XXPLOD]

I've hovered in a C150!
Into a 25kt headwind, barn doors, full power. Hey presto! Zero ground speed and maintaining height, stall warner blaring!

[SlipSlider]

Another one of those tailwheel C172s I see...

Indeed it is. A rather attractive conversion to tailwheel (search on Google) of an early straight-tail C172, which to my eye looks better than the same conversion on an "Omni-Vision" / swept-tail example.

[Piltdown Man]

Maybe this was an attempt to describe the aircraft's speed relative to that of a following car. But this sort of thing is too complicated for the modern "mee-jar" to write.

I have been overtaken by a boat in a 172. Admittedly, it was a Super Cat in Storm Bay having a speed test (being driven by a nice guy called Bob, a regular in the "Shippies") into a strong wind. Actually, he left us for dead...

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