PC 12 lands on street !

[Bluestreak]

Anybody see the picture in USA Today ? Kudos to some heads-up flying !

Link:http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/12/15/local.20041215-sbt-LOCL-A1-Roger__933_is.sto

 

[rumpletumbler]

Officials said Miers received permission to land on Indiana 933, a route lined with restaurants, hotels and other businesses, and, usually, crawling with cars.

hahah....yeah right.

 

[jetexas]

Wow...those guys were lucky!!

 

[Kingairrick]

"Bolin, the manager at a Marathon station, was outside lowering the price of gas on a sign from $1.69 to $1.68 a gallon when he saw the plane coming toward him."

I hate it when I get pressure form the boss to save on fuel. It can cause bad decision making.

 

[OrphicSeth]

Granite State Aviator Pride!

A good ol' New Hampshaah boy savin' the day and dead-sticking it in... keepin' up with tradition! YeeeHA!

PC-12's... hmmmmmm drool, slobber

 

[Flywrite]

Great job to the pilots, and yes the PC12 is cool, but two questions keep popping into my head;

1) What if this had been a King Air 200?

2) What if it had been 100 & 1/2?

Again, great job guys!

 

[A1FlyBoy]

Wow... Well Done!

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

Yea I flew a 12 for a while.......and this very senario was my worst nightmare on the 200 and 1/2 days. I was not sorry to see the 12 go up for sale. Great airplane, great performance, lots of room........but I have had to shut down too many engines (ie. secure a dead engine) to be warm and fuzzy on one PT-6 in heavy weather.

Kudos to the crew, somebody needs to buy them a beer and a pair of pliers......the pliers being to dig the seat cushion out of their rear, I know mine would have dug a nice hole in the seat!!!

Great job guys.

 

[OrphicSeth]

1) What if this had been a King Air 200?

2) What if it had been 100 & 1/2?

Again, great job guys!

1) We might not be reading about it right now. Or maybe we would.

2) It would be a much more depressing story.

I used to fly lots of IMC in single-engine recips. I have had a powerplant failure in one of these single engine recips. Everytime I think about it, I realize how very very very lucky I wasn't in IMC. Phew!

However, I still have a deep lusty drooling desire for PC-12 gig. hmmmmm... (Better than a recip!)

 

[OrphicSeth]

...I have had to shut down too many engines (ie. secure a dead engine) to be warm and fuzzy on one PT-6 in heavy weather.

This is actually interesting, do you mind listing some examples? This is the second time in as many days as I have heard/read something to this effect, but never any details. I'd love to know the circumstances/reasons, if you don't mind.