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You probably get your news from Facebook too. You didn't address where to move the plane to. FYI, over half the aircraft destroyed in Blountstown, Florida from Michael were relocated here to avoid the storm. I guess you hadn't heard that hurricanes tend to be somewhat unpredictable.

Because all those CFI’s got nothing else to do when a hurricane is approaching. Their own homes and families will take care of themselves, right? And where to go? How about far inland? I wonder if anyone relocated their airplanes for Helene up to Asheville?

Found the guy who doesn’t know how a hovercraft works.

Actually there are lots of reasons. Just because you don’t know what they are doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

To be fair, I think Katrina changed a lot of things about FEMA's hurricane response. FEMA's response in Panama City after Michael was excellent. But IMO, FEMA is more of a facilitator. The debris removal trucks, for example, are privately owned. FEMA finds collection points for those...

Unless it just happened to hit where the fuel tank is.

I would think much more of a non-event than if my Velocity got hit. :eek:

What would the “incident” have been? (Asking for a friend)

I didn't forget. Pretty sure that "landed without incident" would make it apparent to most that the pilot indeed had been taught how to fly without the ASI.

I recall an aircraft with a flight crew of three that flew into the everglades because of a burned out landing gear indicator light bulb. So with what sounds like a student pilot on a pre check ride flight with a airspeed indicator bouncing around, including the phrase "without incident"...

You've obviously never lived in a state with mandatory vehicle inspections. Where you have to go to authorized shops to get your car inspected. As for everything else, you think it's easier or will take less time to get your A&P and I/A in than to build an E/AB aircraft? Now that's funny.

We dodged the bullet on this one. 5” of rain today. Max wind at the house was 17kts. No storm surge (low tide at 6pm and a half moon helped).

Of the 4 large hangars on the field, 1 was completely destroyed (farthest south), 1 partially destroyed (about 100yds north of the destroyed hangar), 1 took some damage (next to the partial partially destroyed hangar) and the last was unscathed. Of the four rows of T-hangars, all of them took...

Localized? About 75% of the trees in two counties totaling 1,200 square miles were destroyed. I guess if you think about it from a global scale that’s “localized”.

It was a Cat 5 hurricane. The weather equipment was lost after recording sustained winds at 100kts. Where there tornado's embedded? Maybe. Kinda irrelevant to those people who lost their aircraft.

I can confirm that. About a dozen planes were damaged in hangars during Michael. Most were planes that relocated here to get away from the storm.

This one will all over by the weekend. Looking at a Thursday 8pm landfall. Still holding the track far enough east of us that we'll probably ride it out. But we'll see what happens tomorrow.

We're prepped to bug-out. But the track appears to continue trending east. Good for us, bad for places like Carrabelle. You never know with these things though. Tomorrow we'll mow the grass short then make the call on whether to get all the outside furniture lashed down.

My policy paid about $200 if I flew it out. Problem with that is logistics. If you have your house already prepped, vehicle loaded and a spouse to drive to where you took the plane then the only thing you need to figure out is where to move the plane (hurricanes tend to be unpredictable)...

At this rate, they may do their first flight around 2030.