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Shepherd

Shepherd

Final Approach
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Hopewell Jct, NY
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Shepherd
Flying the J3, practicing my mad skills when the FBO comes on the radio.
FBO: "Yellow Cub, are you reading me?"
Cub #1: "Which one, there are a couple of us up here."
FBO:" All of you, then. A woman called the airport. She lives on BitchinMoan Rd and says you are flying over her house."
Cub #2: "What do you want us to do."
FBO: "Don't fly over her house."
Cub #1 & 2:"Roger that. Extending climb out to crosswind turn." (or something similar)

10 Minutes later.
FBO: "Yellow Cubs. The woman called back. She now says you are flying around her house."
Cub #1: "For crying out loud. What the heck are we supposed to do now?"
FBO: "Fly under the house."

Say what??!!?? At this point any semblance of piloting skills in either plane is non-existent because we are all laughing too hard.

2 Minutes later:
Cub #1: "All aircraft, be advised. I just passed a house on BitchinMoan Rd. There is a woman in the driveway shaking a broom at me."
Cub #2: "If she takes off on that thing to intercept, break left, I'll take the shot."
FBO: "Don't take the shot! No shooting! No shooting!"

And that was my morning, boys and girls.
God, I love flying.
 
Funny, maybe they should have dropped leaflets saying they are above 1000 feet and its legal..:)
 
The airport has been there for more than 50 years.
The woman bought a house 3/4 of a mile from the airport less than a year ago.
All she does, all day, is call the airport, the town, and the FAA to complain about the sound of the planes and their reckless flying.
sigh............
 
Shepherd said:
The airport has been there for more than 50 years.
The woman bought a house 3/4 of a mile from the airport less than a year ago.
All she does, all day, is call the airport, the town, and the FAA to complain about the sound of the planes and their reckless flying.
sigh............
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Yeah but due to her obvious importance and superiority, her one year trumps the airport's 50 years and her personal desires outweigh those of all of the people like you that benefit from the airport. She has rights!! Don't you know that? Geesh.
 
Maybe a flight of Ospreys flying overhead will make her appreciate the other quiet airplanes.....

And if she makes a habit of shaking her broom at airplanes, then maybe she needs a little head shrinking to see what's really wrong...
 
Shepherd said:
2 Minutes later:
Cub #1: "All aircraft, be advised. I just passed a house on BitchinMoan Rd. There is a woman in the driveway shaking a broom at me."
Cub #2: "If she takes off on that thing to intercept, break left, I'll take the shot."
FBO: "Don't take the shot! No shooting! No shooting!"
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Yet another reason never to equip a nice Cub with an electrical system unless there's no other option. :)

Does anyone stream your airport's CTAF to LiveATC? I think we need to pull the recording and trim it to keep it for the archives... :) :) :)
 
Zeldman said:
Maybe a flight of Ospreys flying overhead will make her appreciate the other quiet airplanes.....

And if she makes a habit of shaking her broom at airplanes, then maybe she needs a little hard shrinking to see what's really wrong...
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Better have 911 on standby and the response crew ready for ALS.
 
Could you use any connections you might have to give some of our nation's finest some low-level fighter formation practice in that general area...
 
Omalley1537 said:
Could you use any connections you might have to give some of our nation's finest some low-level fighter formation practice in that general area...
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Hey I offered a visit....oh wait, I see that you meant someone else...;)
 
denverpilot said:
Yet another reason never to equip a nice Cub with an electrical system unless there's no other option. :)

Does anyone stream your airport's CTAF to LiveATC? I think we need to pull the recording and trim it to keep it for the archives... :) :) :)
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It's the first thing I asked when I landed. I wish I had put my GoPro in the plane today, then I could have captured it for posterity.
 
POA fly-in at Shepherd's place?

Does the lady call the airport after she spills her coffee screaming "I want some butts!!!"


Edit: Two of your snot nosed Cub jockeys flew by my tower at over 70 knots!!!
 
I think we need an POA fly over, I mean fly in...we all make a trip up your way and drive this lady even more crazy! Maybe find a banner tower and have a banner that says "If you don't like it, MOVE!"
 
Does shaking a broom constitute a terrorist threat? Maybe she needs a visit from Homeland Security. :)

You need a couple of T6s to go in and out of your airport for a few hours.

ETA: I am not too far from your listed location have access to a J5 and willing to come do a little pattern work over there.

ETAA: Oops two towns with similar names. Left out the Jct. :)
 
When I was doing my checkout in the Venture they required 3 t/o and 3 landings to a full stop. Some people living close to the airport posted to my instructors facebook page asking if he knew who was making all the racket. I replied to apologize to which they said, "Heck no, thanks for the show!"
 
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