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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #30 on: October 11, 2006, 04:58:38 PM »
It sais alot about the world when this is the huge headline at all the online newspapers here while yestedays planecrash here with 4 deaths and todays train crash in France is pushed way down on the front page.
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« Reply #31 on: October 11, 2006, 05:11:05 PM »
Cory Lidle's passport was found at the crash site and the aircraft was registered in his name.
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« Reply #32 on: October 11, 2006, 05:12:29 PM »
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It sais alot about the world when this is the huge headline at all the online newspapers here while yestedays planecrash here with 4 deaths and todays train crash in France is pushed way down on the front page.
I don't recall terrorists flying a french train into the side of buildings and killing thousands lately, can you link me to the story?

It's big news because every single New Yorker thought "terrorist" for a moment when they first heard about the crash, and just about everyone else wondered "Is this 9/11 again?" for at least a few seconds.  News is about what sells, and people see patterns where none exist.  They see "Plane crash in NY" and can turn into big dumb animals, the media knows how to make money on this.  It's basic business.
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« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2006, 05:12:43 PM »
What were Thurman Munson's last words?
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« Reply #34 on: October 11, 2006, 05:25:57 PM »
Given the pilot, it's going to continue to be "big" news for days to come.

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« Reply #35 on: October 11, 2006, 05:29:18 PM »
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Aren't these the planes with a ballastic chute recovery system?

Heard on the radio he'd declared an emergency and might have been turning back to the airport.

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Yes it is. I get a chance to fly one possibly next week. My wife saw this today , heard the type of plane it was and was on the pohone to me right off. Saying" Isn't that the type of plane your flying soon?" Said yes. She said she'd rather I didn't. I assured her there are no tall building where I will be flying. She wasn't impressed with that answer.
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« Reply #36 on: October 11, 2006, 05:37:11 PM »
I too have flown the corridor many times..the Hudson that is, not the East river. To go up the East river you have to do a 180 right about where the accident took place or you break LGA airspace. The East river is very narrow and  should really only be flown in a helicopter. I sure hope they don't shut the Hudson down because of this idiot.
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« Reply #37 on: October 11, 2006, 05:41:53 PM »
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What were Thurman Munson's last words?


Comin' down!
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« Reply #38 on: October 11, 2006, 05:55:06 PM »
Well Sixpence, Im sure the MP-Number brigade will whack that post.

Lame joke.  Maybe you should ask Santa for some "tact"  :)
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« Reply #39 on: October 11, 2006, 05:55:34 PM »
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Is this near another one of those "VFR corridors" that are 500 feet tall and over water?  NYC has a few of those on the charts that make me shake my head.  Looks unnerving, found out about 'em when that tour plane crashed a couple years ago.


Actually the floor of the class B is 1,100. I generally fly it at 8-900, helicopters fly at lower Alts. The Hudson is a really neat trip. You basicly keep to the right, flying S. you stay over the East shore and when you make the turn N. past the "Lady" you stay on the Manhatten side. As I said before, the East river is just to confined for fixed wing. I don't go there. I can't imagine why this instructor took Lidle up in there.

My Daughter is going to school in the Bronx and I was planning on going down soon to take Her and some friends for the Hudson tour. I just got off the phone with her and I'm now planning on doing the trip sooner. Wx permitting in the next few days. This might be my last chance. I'll add the pix to the ones I have from Meigs.:(
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« Reply #40 on: October 11, 2006, 06:09:01 PM »
The east river part is a little bit tight, but I just talk to La Guardia Tower and they let me have a little bit of Class B to pop a 180 or just transition through their airspace and outside the B to wherever i'm going next.
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« Reply #41 on: October 11, 2006, 06:11:42 PM »
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fox was worse just now, had a fat ex cop talking aviation and he isnt even a pilot....screaming about unrestricted airspace.   Pretty obvious he has no clue how flightplans and airspace work.  Yet he is screaming and trying to scare people.
Well, to be fair, it was FOX News.
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« Reply #42 on: October 11, 2006, 06:35:34 PM »
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Well Sixpence, Im sure the MP-Number brigade will whack that post.

Lame joke.  Maybe you should ask Santa for some "tact"  :)


For those who don't get the joke, the catcher yells "comin down" on the pitcher's final warm up pitch, he then throws down to the SS(a practice throw for base stealing)


btw, you hear he got traded to the angels?
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« Reply #44 on: October 11, 2006, 06:46:28 PM »
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Raider you're a tasteless moron.  That's about the only way I can politely say anything.


well that was before I looked on CNN.com Yankees guy died
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