If I remember correctly the wetlands are a couple thousand feet from the end of the runway, any word on whether it was landing or taking off?
I'll ask this weekend when I see the locals. The guy I was with in Petaluma got a call from his wife almost immediately so it must have been on TV or something. All my pilot friends were mad about the way the article was written (the birds).
Turns out my guess was correct. If you look at the runway photo I posted from Google Maps above, you'll see a bridge.
This one has the bridge in it too:
4 Onboard per the article. Heavy and hot, landed long? Specuguessing.
4 Onboard per the article. Heavy and hot, landed long? Specuguessing.
During my pilot training days, my instructor loved this place for cross-wind takeoffs / landings and ADF practice.
I saw the story on the news the other day and they said it was a student pilot. I practiced my x-wind takeoffs and landings at DVO. I was always afraid of hitting those towers when in the pattern.
Haven't you been reading the new lately. If you end up "upright in a field" it's a crash. So I guess it makes sense that you if you end up "upside down" its a landing. At least in news speak."A small plane crashed in Novato Saturday afternoon, landing upside down in some marshland near Gnoss Field and injuring the pilot"
He landed upside down!? This is the danger of people trying to do what they see in the movies. Although, it seems more likely he landed right-side up and the upside down part happened afterward.
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Gnoss has some seriously gnarly winds. I once saw the windsock do the Richard Simmons when I landed there.
Speaking of crosswinds, I was doing pattern work with an instructor yesterday, flying an Archer for the first time in several years in order to renew my club currency in type. The wind was nearly perpendicular to the runway and gusting to 22 knots. That's rare at Palo Alto. It was a lot of work!
Gnoss has some seriously gnarly winds. I once saw the windsock do the Richard Simmons when I landed there.
When they said operations were back to normal within a few hours, I wonder what pilots were doing when they went to land and saw people / upside down plane near the end of one runway.... go around? Go to another airport? How long does the plane remain in the field? Would they talk to pilots on CTAF or record "remarks" on AWOS to get the word out?
You were that close to my airspace and you didn't wave?
You were that close to my airspace and you didn't wave?
By the way, I guess it wasn't necessarily clear from my post, but the strong gusty crosswind I subjected myself to on Monday was at Palo Alto.
So I flew over Sausalito on the way to and from Half Moon Bay. I waved. U didn't wave back.
No I understood that. I meant wave from Palo Alto.