Pilots a little too involved in the Festival

[Shrike135]

"AUF-Prune"? That's where you lose your credibility XXX.

Leadsled made a good comment in #19

There's nothing wrong with GA pilots discussing RAAus accidents or vice versa, it is a way of learning lessons and promoting safety.

Just no point in keeping up a continual slagging match using every opportunity.

[VH-XXX]

Ok Wallsofchina/shrike135 whatever floats your boat. So Horatio calls it Auf-prune and I get told I have no credibility. Look closely, I'm not slagging Raaus other than saying that the pilot, regardless of license or certificate is a ********.

It's always the same small few, Wallsofchina/shrike135, fencehopper, locks the moderator and the newly married Duke of Windsor.

[Shrike135]

What are you rambling about?
Have a look at your very own #82

[T28D]

Pretty good pseudonym XXX actually descriptive I think !!

[VH-XXX]

Oh Dear, what a waste of electrons.

I can't take the credit though, credit belongs to Horatio for that one.

Personally I keep right away from it as I'm not a religious person and I've heard from the owner that the site is like a Church-State.

[Shrike135]

If the site was like a Church-State, you'd be sitting in your own pew, XXX

[Antsl]

Just a thought... but what is the chance the PIC was not actually flying the plane?

What's the chance he was letting his mate have a fly... his head might have been in the cockpit, busy giving instructions!? How else would an experienced pilot be so short on landing, and then screw up a go-around?

[SIUYA]

Fencehopper...

how many croppies have been cleaned up by wires trees and fences that they already knew were there?

A few, but really, a ferris wheel is a whole lot more conspicuous than wires or fences I'd have thought. ozaggie was spot-on at post#44:

From what I can see, that basic aviatory requirement was missing from this incident.

Back to your post Fencehopper...

Sometimes cockpit workload just overrides the outside world.

C'mon - you're kidding us, right? This is a bloody light aircraft for Chrissakes - pilot SHOULD have been looking out the window at that stage of flight and that close to the ground. As ozaggie said at post #47:

It's down to the pilot (rocket surgeon) to sort out the air from the ferris wheel, as it were.

Antsl...

What's the chance he was letting his mate have a fly... his head might have been in the cockpit, busy giving instructions?

Really? I wonder if he was qualified to let his mate have a fly? And if he was then he really fcuked it up, didn't he?

How else would an experienced pilot be so short on landing, and then screw up a go-around?

Sorry, but if the pilot WAS so experienced then I don't think there's a ready answer to that question I'm afraid. In other words, pilot in command of the aircraft SHOULD have been the pilot handling it at that stage and NOT as you suggest, letting '...his 'mate have a fly.'

This event seems to be in the top 10 for the 2011 Darwin Awards. And a Gold for PPRuNe 'Post of the Year' goes to Parapunter:

Some people dream of being pilots. Others fail to see the attraction.

[compressor stall]

What's the MTOW of largest aircraft that in order to remain laterally balanced the PIC needs chips on both shoulders?

[T28D]

600 Kg will do it

[Chu Mai Huang]

Was he three-pointing... or "doing a wheeler"???????

[JabJockey]

Wow this forum seems to have a lot of personal attacks. Verrry interesting