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Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:04 am
by ozzy72

Re: Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:16 am
by specter177
Honestly, I would have just run over the dog than possibly crash a 20 million dollar airplane.

Re: Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:23 am
by Fozzer
..looks like it trashed its right-hand Turbo-Prop engine...!

.....expensive manoeuvre...to avoid a Dog!

Paul... 8-)...!

Re: Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:39 am
by beaky
Weird- it doesn't look like the dog was really in the way at all...?

At any rate, a pro should know that whether it's a deer, a dog, or your own Gramma on the runway... to protect the lives of those on board, you have to just keep going. Might damage the plane but you will more likely maintain control.

Re: Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:47 am
by specter177
Weird- it doesn't look like the dog was really in the way at all...?

At any rate, a pro should know that whether it's a deer, a dog, or your own Gramma on the runway... to protect the lives of those on board, you have to just keep going. Might damage the plane but you will more likely maintain control.


Well, I would stop if was my own Gramma, because in this case, no one was injured. ;)

Re: Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:52 am
by Brett_Henderson
It might be expertise after the fact.. as in, I know people react in strange ways to the unexpected.. and the very same pilot might have handled it differently, on a different day...

Re: Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:01 pm
by beaky
Weird- it doesn't look like the dog was really in the way at all...?

At any rate, a pro should know that whether it's a deer, a dog, or your own Gramma on the runway... to protect the lives of those on board, you have to just keep going. Might damage the plane but you will more likely maintain control.


Well, I would stop if was my own Gramma, because in this case, no one was injured. ;)

But when you start skidding off the runway, you don't know that... had they gone left, instead of right, and the left engine got trashed, that prop assembly would have "walked" into the fuselage, not away from it...

Re: Keep Fido on a lead!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:17 pm
by Brett_Henderson
That's the funny thing.. and the reflex to training is so true.. you just "know" when you've got a good chunk of airspeed going, that the brakes are useless (they'll lock easily when the wings are taking weight off of them)...