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Here is a strange one. Always a good idea to make sure you are on the right freq.

http://www.koat.com/video/10260444/index.html?taf=alb[/url]

damn, I guess, "my bad" won't quite cut it in this situation.


I'd like to know who was on the proper frequency.

Not that it really matters. if it had been a NRDO plane on the bottom the results would have been the same. The plane on top has some explaining to do.

hmmm they are both split tail bonanzas too. Wasn't the phrase Dr. killer applied to those models at one point?

I think it was "forked tail lawyer killer"


Thomas

I just about replied to you, Thomas, that you had the lawyer part wrong...but then I remembered what you do...

Thats what I found so freaky was that they were both Dr. Killlers !

Also, if you listen to the clip you can hear one of the pilots sya something like "If you get the other plane off of mine, I'll fly it out of here right now".

Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed You never know who you are sharing the pattern (or in this case - the runway) with.

Will, he didn't actually say he'd fly it out "right now," just that he'd fly out. He was really just answering a question about whether the accident made him fearful of flying again... I'm sure he'd have the plane checked over first.

As far as whose "bad," the top plane was a local, the bottom one was making a fuel stop. Wild guess -- bottom plane on wrong frequency, top pilot complacent and inattentive due to familiarity.

I'll be curious to learn about the traffic patterns they flew. At the uncontrolled airport at which I learned to fly, the damn tourists often flew five mile straight in approaches. It was a tight pattern anyway and that really makes spacing difficult.

All the more reason to fly a proper pattern at a "non tower" airport.
Dan

...all your better specialists are flying Cirrus nowadays anyways!

These guys musta been general practioners!

CJ