StaticWick
full-time wannabe
- Joined
- Jan 23, 2004
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Thank you ALL for your replies! 
But I believe in retrospect Rick is dead on and I was "dead" wrong in my pre-brief or lack-there-of. I got into a plane with the understanding of CRM but the pilot (PIC) did not acknowledge that or understand this in which it was my mistake in not performing a solid brief as mention by Deadstick. I actually thought of those questions you spoke about...and folks declaring miss may work in a 121/135 operation but it doesn't mean hoot to the PIC in this situation in which I found out real quick!
JediNein~ I actually thought you were going to talk about the DPE who took over the controls of an MU-2 from the owner pilot and landed on the water runway at New Iberia, LA - KARA Acadiana Regional (check the airport diagram out). My boss and I where joking about that because the water was “dark-looking” giving it the appearance of a runway. The FBO folks said they had two incidents about an Archer and an MU2 landing in the 5' deep runway 16w/34w. The MU2 story was better than the archer pilot landing at night on it. They said there was good size catfish in the water.
Of course the MU2 was a complete mess I don’t know the outcome although the owner did try to make the FAA pay for it. From my understanding they were just going to land there wasn’t a life-or-death scenario happening at the time. I wonder if the Archer pilot saw frogs eyes just before he flared and wonder what those shiney dots were!
But I believe in retrospect Rick is dead on and I was "dead" wrong in my pre-brief or lack-there-of. I got into a plane with the understanding of CRM but the pilot (PIC) did not acknowledge that or understand this in which it was my mistake in not performing a solid brief as mention by Deadstick. I actually thought of those questions you spoke about...and folks declaring miss may work in a 121/135 operation but it doesn't mean hoot to the PIC in this situation in which I found out real quick!
JediNein~ I actually thought you were going to talk about the DPE who took over the controls of an MU-2 from the owner pilot and landed on the water runway at New Iberia, LA - KARA Acadiana Regional (check the airport diagram out). My boss and I where joking about that because the water was “dark-looking” giving it the appearance of a runway. The FBO folks said they had two incidents about an Archer and an MU2 landing in the 5' deep runway 16w/34w. The MU2 story was better than the archer pilot landing at night on it. They said there was good size catfish in the water.
Of course the MU2 was a complete mess I don’t know the outcome although the owner did try to make the FAA pay for it. From my understanding they were just going to land there wasn’t a life-or-death scenario happening at the time. I wonder if the Archer pilot saw frogs eyes just before he flared and wonder what those shiney dots were! 
