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1. 04:04 PM - Re: Video...- practicing (Rex Hefferan)
2. 10:04 PM - Re: Video... (jimshumaker)
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--> Kitfox-List message posted by: Rex Hefferan <kitfox-m2@earthlink.net>
David,
If it were me I wouldn't change my personal practice area because of
that womans call. You could check with the local FSS about your practice
area and see if they feel you should go elsewhere. I would see it as a
opportunity to try and educate the caller if you could. One call with no
resulting FAA involvement sounds like an overreaction by the caller.
Many years ago I practiced aerobatic maneuvers over a somewhat sparsely
populated area several times and never heard of any complaints. I was
flying at a safe altitude near a friends house (5,000+ AGL) and they
would have told me of any neighbors negative comments.
Rex
Colorado
David Lumgair wrote:
>--> Kitfox-List message posted by: "David Lumgair" <lumgair@verizon.net>
>
>Guys (& Gals) -
>
><SNIP>
> So here I was, all "pumped" that I had performed all these maneuvers
>just about flawlessly when my cell phone rings. (Less than 10 minutes out
>of the plane.) It was a friend at the local airport checking on me, he knew
>I was up because I saw him when I was there for fuel. Said he was concerned
>because a woman had called saying that there was a small high wing plane
>"flying crazy like he didn't know what he was doing or might be drunk" by
>her house and the plane kept "bobbing" in the sky. Then that plane "flipped
>over on it's side and fell until it was close to the ground." Apparently
>she wanted to know if she should call the police. I guess she didn't
>because I haven't heard anything else and I work with the Sherrifs office
>alot in my profession so someone would have mentioned it to me. After he
>told me where she was calling from I figure it might have been me she was
>watching as I could see the area she lives in from where I was practicing -
>by her house was a bit of an exaggeration - I did pass over that area on my
>way back to the field but was still at 2500+ S&L and was a long way away
>when doing my maneuvers. The area where the lady lives is about 4 miles
>west of the strip so I doubt she saw the steep spiral.
>
> Point is I would hate to have the FAA call on me because someone who
>doesn't understand what's going on panics and exaggerates - I never broke
>any rules either. I was practiceing BASIC flight maneuvers - things most of
>us learned for PPL. I don't drink, got that out of my system long ago. I
>never did any aerobatics that required a parachute. My aircraft is
>certified for the maneuvers I was doing. Always maintained an altitude
>where in the event of an engine failure I could safely glide to a suitable
>landing area. And was out over the water when I did my maneuvers so as not
>to endanger anyone.
>
> Guess I'll go to the practice area 60+ miles away from now on... In a
>150 that could take all day to go up and back if the wind shifts. WHAT A
>BUMMER!
>
>Dave
>
>
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--> Kitfox-List message posted by: "jimshumaker" <jimshumaker@sbcglobal.net>
Had something simiar happen a couple of years ago. I was circling over an
empty field. clear of houses and vehicles and those minimum clearances. As
I added power I would climb about 500 feet. Then throttle back and drop
down about 500 feet. Same diameter circle and same bank angle. I had been
unable to induce a spin in the plane at that time. Yeah, I got turned in
for doing spins over a house.
Jim Shumaker
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