Thread: Ameriflight Birdstrike @ Show Low-Pilot Injured

Well I guess I miss let you. I am MX. I know this is a pilot web site but I still kinda like it. Alot of interesting conversation.

Quote: Originally Posted by OldTownPilot 2000 db???? I dont think any human would be able to hear that as they would be permanently deaf at about 200 db. I'd like to see what would make 2000 db too. That must be impressive. 2000 hz maybe Lol! Yes. Hz it is. Been a late day today!

Quote: Originally Posted by shovel ?? Whelp, if you didn't "start" as a commercial PFT F.O. on the 1900 out of Moline Ill, there have only been 4 direct hire's into the CVG base in this last year. 2 quit, 1 got transfered to a DFW run which leaves 1 who is still in the CVG base. And the navajo was the most challenging airplane I ever got to fly, a season with her will do anybody good.

Re: Ameriflight Birdstrike @ Show Low-Pilot Injured Quote: Originally Posted by KLB I'm glad he's safe! AMF incidents usually go unoticed by design. Wutke will probably get a free tshirt. I wonder what kind of strange PIF will come out because of this? I got a hat and jacket when I almost bought the farm.

Re: Ameriflight Birdstrike @ Show Low-Pilot Injured Semi gross, but I think you can see the outline of his head in pic 3.

Quote: Originally Posted by Boris Badenov breaks all the time. ... sounds like pilot issue to me I've enjoyed flying it for the 40+ hours I have in it. But it's also an upgrade from the Navaslow. So I suppose its relative, but certainly I would enjoy flying the MU-2 more. It seems to be a bird magnet. Same company, same plane, same DAY, different location, and someone else hit a sizable bird. Fortunate for him, less dramatic then...

Quote: Originally Posted by MikeD That compares to the MU-2 how? Heh. Mitsi is deafening and terrifying on the outside. 99 sounds like your garden variety twin caravan on the outside but makes the poor long suffering freight pup on the inside deaf as a post. Need to tall to waco about those implants (only half kidding...4 plus years of prop freight has definitely taken its toll.)

Re: Ameriflight Birdstrike @ Show Low-Pilot Injured Quote: Originally Posted by MikeD Was at Holbrook airport lounging around at my plane and witnessed this accident as it happened. Watched the Bonanza taxi and begin takeoff roll, heard a loud bang and an engine racing to high RPMs, then impact noise. Got to the aircraft just as it stopped upside down: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?...97LA084&akey=1 "liberating the...

Re: Ameriflight Birdstrike @ Show Low-Pilot Injured I'm surprised Hazlet bothered to comment, or that the story hit the press at all!

Re: Ameriflight Birdstrike @ Show Low-Pilot Injured Wow, what a mess, you can see the result on the interior of the door (unless thats the actual color? not familiar)