'Embarrassed' pilot mistakes racetrack for airport runway

[BillS511]

The title says it all. Check out the link below.

http://www.indystar.com/article.php?oops17.html

KIND
Bill

[Sonar5]

Actually the Mooney Plane says it all.

Joke:
How do you know a Pilot owns a Mooney......
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They Tell You......
:-lol :-lol :-lol :-lol

Well, at least he made agood landing.

Regards,
Joe



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[junky354]

Opps.

That would be Embarassing.

Back to my town some time ago a pilot had an engine failure and landed on a drag strip. it wasn't anytime that there was racing but that is what happened.

Paul

[soundair]

I used to belong to a R/C flying club located at Halfmoon Bay in California. one day while flying there a Grob Motor glider made a Emergancy landing on our little strip 25X200 asphalt. I was working on my plane and happend to look up and here he was coming in on finale. made a good landing but had to dismantel the aircraft and truck it down the road to Halfmoon bay airport.

[mhodgson]

In the FS2002 'Ground School' training manual by Rod Machado, there is a little story about a pilot landing at the wrong airport:
[i]"I won’t mention any names, but on
occasion, professional airline pilots have
been known to land at the wrong airport
with a full load of passengers. Nothing
like bringing your own audience to a faux
pas. Several years ago, a pilot did this at
an East Coast airport. He accidentally
landed at a small training field with
nothing but itty-bitty Cessnas and Pipers
fluttering around the pattern. As he
touched down and came to a stop, his
wheels punched holes in the thin runway
surface. He knew he was in trouble when
it took full power just to taxi. A few of the
locals came out and said, “Hey! Look
what you did to our runway! You put
divots in it. Geesh!” The only way they
could get the airplane out was to completely
strip it down to barebones metal,
making it light enough to take off without
further runway damage. The same could
not be said for the pilot’s career."[i/]
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[flyinggriffin]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON May-18-02 AT 01:03PM (EDT)[/font][p] I suspect he will get one of those dreaded notices from his local Friendly Aviation Agency FSDO to come on down and do some hangar flying with them.

If he his lucky he will get off with remedial training. If he is not, he may have to go out and buy FS2002 to get in the air this summer.

[Shawnc]

"Pilot:Uhhhh I have the runway in sight."

"Tower:Cleared to land, but be advised we don't have you in sight."

"Pilot:What are these cars doing chasing me down the runway?"

"Tower:What cars?!?"

Flying isn't dangerous, crashing is.
Retiree in Training

[Martin]

And there was a DC-10 (Northwest I believe) that landed in Brussels, Belgium, instead of Frankfurt, Germany...

Martin

It's a lot like life and that's what's appealing