{"id":44,"date":"2004-11-05T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2004-11-05T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T17:50:03","slug":"general-aviation-off-to-a-bad-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"General Aviation Off to a Bad Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaa.org\/communications\/eaanews\/041104_fatals.html\">this article<\/a> general aviation fatalities totalled 340 last fiscal year but there have already been 39 in the first month of the new one. Not a good start, especially with the &#8216;more difficult&#8217; months ahead of ice, fog and increased night flying.<\/p>\n<p>And its not helped by pilots like the one we overheard at Brown Field yesterday who seemed to have no clue what they were doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tower: ABC123 Hold short of runway 26R<br \/>\n[silence]<br \/>\nTower: ABC123 You are required to repeat the hold short instuction<br \/>\nPilot: Hold short of 26R<\/p>\n<p>Tower: ABC123 Position and hold 26R (meaning go on to the runway but hold for takeoff instruction)<br \/>\nPilot: Position and hold 26R<\/p>\n<p>Tower: ABC123 Do you know what position and hold means?<br \/>\nPilot: Yes, it means position and hold<br \/>\n(didn&#8217;t see what happened but I think the pilot didn&#8217;t move onto the runway)<\/p>\n<p>Tower (exasperated voice): ABC123 Cleared for take off, maintain 1500 feet until approved otherwise<br \/>\nPilot: Cleared for take off<\/p>\n<p>Tower: ABC123 Did you copy the restriction to maintain 1500 feet? (I guess the pilot was now above 1500)<br \/>\nPilot: Sorry, I did not copy that<br \/>\nTower: ABC123 When you get back to Brown, please call the tower<\/p>\n<p>The airport was very busy with several planes practicing landings and takeoffs plus a few planes coming in to clear customs from Mexico, pilots needed to be extra vigilant or else accidents will be happening.  I am sure when the pilot returned he received quite a lecture from the tower, I hope he learned from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article general aviation fatalities totalled 340 last fiscal year but there have already been 39 in the first month of the new one. Not a good start, especially with the &#8216;more difficult&#8217; months ahead of ice, fog and increased night flying. And its not helped by pilots like the one we overheard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying","tag-flying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}