Drunk pilot: Where have you hidden the runway?

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Drink pollit in Hermanie

The 65-year-old amateur pilot allegedly tanked up on beer and wine before taking to the skies above the eastern German state of Thuringia in his Cessna light aircraft on Saturday afternoon.

Once airborne, he served himself some more cocktails while at the controls.

Two hours later he was apparently so inebriated that he was unable to read the instruments telling him where the Schoengleida airfield was.

"Come on, I know you're down there," he radioed. "Where the bloody hell have you hidden yourself?"he 65-year-old amateur pilot allegedly tanked up on beer and wine before taking to the skies above the eastern German state of Thuringia in his Cessna light aircraft on Saturday afternoon.

Once airborne, he served himself some more cocktails while at the controls.

Two hours later he was apparently so inebriated that he was unable to read the instruments telling him where the Schoengleida airfield was.

"Come on, I know you're down there," he radioed. "Where the bloody hell have you hidden yourself?"
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He was stopped on the way home, breathalysed and found to be nearly four times over the legal limit for driving.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...k-pilot-Where-have-you-hidden-the-runway.html
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On the way home? :yikes: They let him start driving home? :idea:
 
Re: Drink pollit in Hermanie

mikea said:
It was a Cessna. Prolly had auto-land.
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You mean "Land-O-matic"?

In 1956, Cessna introduced sprung-steel tricycle landing gear on the 172. The marketing department chose “Land-O-Matic” to imply that the these aircraft were much easier to land and take-off than the preceding conventional landing gear equipped Cessna 170. They even went as far as to say pilots could do “drive-up take-offs and drive-in landings”, implying that flying these aircraft was as easy as driving a car. In later years some Cessna models had their steel sprung landing gear replaced with steel tube gear legs. The 206 retains the original spring steel landing gear today.
 
UnF*ingBelievable! :( Amazed he made it alive. 4 times over the legal DRIVING limit! Drinking in the cockpit!:loco::loco::loco:
 
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