Thread: Earning My Wage.

Originally Posted by djhampson

Can you imangine the pilots reaction when the plane touched down and the sounds of metal on bitumen filled the air??

At least with an amphibious floatplane the damage is a lot less than with a landplane, although I'll bet its pretty expensive even so.

John

Originally Posted by numpty

Actually had an aircraft incident at Hamo yesterday. A Cessna Caravan (with floats) made a wheels up landing. Seems the pilot forgot to put the wheels down, must have thought he was landing on water.
No passengers on board, but he skidded on the floats for about 100 meters and left light gouge marks on the runway.
We turned out of course, and within 5 minutes a crane was out, had lifted the aircraft, pilot lowered the wheels, aircraft was lowered back down, started engine and taxied off to the apron.
Funniest thing was, for the next 2 hours, a horde of people were down on hands and knees picking and scraping the aluminium slivers from the bitumen surface, as they were considered a safety hazard.
Saved another one.

Well thats it then, time to retire on a high

(were we ever on shift together for an incident???)


Martyn