RickWoodall
Well Known Member
Wife and I flew into 48D today. Great little airport, courtesy car, good fuel prices etc. After fill up we taxied to the tie down area at the terminal and prepared for our trip into town for breakfast, once our buddies landed.
A cessna lands, and taxis up to the tie down between me and another plane, with lots of rpm wing actually 5 feet or so over my wing opposite direction and turn a 180 under power. Wife grabbed controls and plane was fine but I didnt even know what to say. Further, since I had grabbed the crew car keys, he asked us to take him into town for breakfast too and actually sat with us.
I was nice...but its been burning my butt all day. There was an entire row of parking, and this tool fits into one between two parked planes and pulls donuts under power, while his wing is over another plane, he looked back to see if his tail would hit our plane...no kidding.
GRRRRRRRR. Is it wrong to just punch another pilot....small town airport...didnt want to be a jerk and this guy was 60 or so with his son in law...but really..he did spend all of breakfast telling us how great he was too. haha. Ok feel better.
Would you have just let it slide....or put a whooopin on him. In all my years of flying nothing has made me so mad. No idea what the guy was thinking...and mad I didnt just walk over and drop some nasty words. I spend an hour with him after this not saying a thing...Geeez.
A cessna lands, and taxis up to the tie down between me and another plane, with lots of rpm wing actually 5 feet or so over my wing opposite direction and turn a 180 under power. Wife grabbed controls and plane was fine but I didnt even know what to say. Further, since I had grabbed the crew car keys, he asked us to take him into town for breakfast too and actually sat with us.
I was nice...but its been burning my butt all day. There was an entire row of parking, and this tool fits into one between two parked planes and pulls donuts under power, while his wing is over another plane, he looked back to see if his tail would hit our plane...no kidding.
GRRRRRRRR. Is it wrong to just punch another pilot....small town airport...didnt want to be a jerk and this guy was 60 or so with his son in law...but really..he did spend all of breakfast telling us how great he was too. haha. Ok feel better.
Would you have just let it slide....or put a whooopin on him. In all my years of flying nothing has made me so mad. No idea what the guy was thinking...and mad I didnt just walk over and drop some nasty words. I spend an hour with him after this not saying a thing...Geeez.
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