Nearly landed on the beach: Helgoland
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Nearly landed on the beach: Helgoland
Someone laying on the beach almost gets hit, lands short of runway. Watch the video it's shocking…..
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Heliplane Love the previous post!
With the shot at the end showing some damage to the engine cowl, he must have taken out part of the fence with his prop. That'll be expensive.
With the shot at the end showing some damage to the engine cowl, he must have taken out part of the fence with his prop. That'll be expensive.
The interesting point is why was that obstacle sunbathing on short finals?
In summary it's the airport/councils fault for letting numpties wander about in an airway. Do people sleep on motorways in that country? Biggles is in the clear and performed his emergency short field landing well.
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With the shot at the end showing some damage to the engine cowl, he must have taken out part of the fence with his prop. That'll be expensive.
That person thoroughly deserves being dragged across the hottest coals his license issuer can find and his license revoked permanently.
An utterly unacceptable piece of flying, the pilot is a danger to himself and others around him (both on the ground and in the sky).
From the news article :
The pilot Juergen Drucker, 52, has apologised for his careless flying and said he misjudged the landing.
"It was me that was flying and I am really sorry. I have to say, as the pictures show, that it wasn't one of my greatest achievements in the cockpit,” he said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/lucky-es...#ixzz33ZXNXvH9
"It was me that was flying and I am really sorry. I have to say, as the pictures show, that it wasn't one of my greatest achievements in the cockpit,” he said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/lucky-es...#ixzz33ZXNXvH9
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... the imminent loss of his license ...
The incident causes a lot of turbulence on the German forums*. There is some argument about the signposts on the beach: while all agree there are some, they are described very differently ("Lorry-size" is mentioned by one); some also state there are traffic lights - if so, I presume the radio operator can activate them as seen appropriate. But there is never an answer to remarks regarding the nature of the runway - shortish, and water at both ends with only a tiny bit of beach between) which might well inspire a pilot to come in lower than usual. The slightest bit of downdraft is then sufficient to provoke a mishap.
For myself I can't understand the aerodrome operator does not control the active runway's short finals area more intensively. A 4x4 in emergency services' colors a few times per hour should do the job, except for those really persisting in their stupidity (and for those, no help is possible anyway).
Certainly the operator has every motivation: if ever things come to grief, as they must do one day if things go on like this, the blame will be mostly if not exclusively on them.
*for one example, those who read German may look at
https://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/foru...,02,05,2017507
For myself I can't understand the aerodrome operator does not control the active runway's short finals area more intensively. A 4x4 in emergency services' colors a few times per hour should do the job, except for those really persisting in their stupidity (and for those, no help is possible anyway).
Certainly the operator has every motivation: if ever things come to grief, as they must do one day if things go on like this, the blame will be mostly if not exclusively on them.
*for one example, those who read German may look at
https://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/foru...,02,05,2017507
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Looking at the vid our heroic Biggles was well clear of the posts.