Taxing into hangar = illegal?

[Bosley]

That would really depend on the circumstances. Depending on the outcome or who complains, the FAA' response would most likely be 14 CFR 91.13(b), Careless and Reckless Operations.

That's the FAA's excuse for anything they have a hard time violating someone on! It's their "ace in the hole" so to say!

 

[FN FAL]

Yeah, you're right. and the lake next to his house, the water is in perpetual motion so you can wakeboard with no boat.

I wonder what kind of service volume a pump like that would have?

 

[Hand Commander]

I wonder what kind of service volume a pump like that would have?

Well, strangley enough, the pump is submersed in the middle of the lake and is also co-located with his own high altitude VOR. So when he has the stinson on floats and the weather's down, he can depart off the perpetual motion water on his lake, fly the 400 yards to his treadmill runway and shoot the approach. But since he's in the cone of confusion the entire time, is he legal to use his pump VOR as the IAF for the VOR A approach to the treadmill runway so that he can park and rotate his lazy susan hangar? Man, where can I find that? Bernouuuuulllllliiiiiii, oh Bernooooooouuulllllliiiii.....

 

[FL420]

My dad tried it once, unsuccessfully. He was an aircraft mechanic at Tinker AFB during WWII. He was doing a full-power engine runup on a P-51 Mustang outside a hangar when the tail tiedown broke. He kissed the closed hangar doors before he could get it stopped.

 

[TrafficInSight]

Well, strangley enough, the pump is submersed in the middle of the lake and is also co-located with his own high altitude VOR. So when he has the stinson on floats and the weather's down, he can depart off the perpetual motion water on his lake, fly the 400 yards to his treadmill runway and shoot the approach. But since he's in the cone of confusion the entire time, is he legal to use his pump VOR as the IAF for the VOR A approach to the treadmill runway so that he can park and rotate his lazy susan hangar? Man, where can I find that? Bernouuuuulllllliiiiiii, oh Bernooooooouuulllllliiiii.....

My head hurts.

 

[Big Duke Six]

Dig a little deeper, Avbug.

If you'll look, 14 CFR 91.13(b)(4)(12)(d) Indoor Operation of Aircraft states that "No aircraft shall be operated Indoors except for the sole and explicit purpose of taxiing onto Rotational Aircraft Movement Platforms solely set in place for the filthy rich to turn owned aircraft around in unusually tight spaces. Said operators are permitted to "Travolta" their aircraft around indoors unencumbered by the financial constraints that may normally prevent the layperson from performing such a maneuver due to the resultant high cost of FOD damage etc".

See, it's all right there....

 

[avbug]

I suggest you do your research a little more carefully before posting. If you'd bothered to read the regulation, you'd find that 14 CFR 91.13(b)(4)(12)(d)(ii) specifically states,

"Except Tuesdays."

The devil is in the details.

How he got there, we'll never know.

 

[Big Duke Six]

Ahh, there it is. Good catch.

 

[AngelKing]

I suggest you do your research a little more carefully before posting. If you'd bothered to read the regulation, you'd find that 14 CFR 91.13(b)(4)(12)(d)(ii) specifically states,

"Except Tuesdays."

The devil is in the details.

How he got there, we'll never know.

Avbug, I do have to admit, (and you don't know how painful this is), you do have quite a humorous side to you!

AK

 

[Wang Chung]

I was flying aerial survey in a Turbo 206 a few years ago and I needed an oil change and some recurring ADs done. I was working a project someplace down in MS or AL, and I called ahead to an FBO (can't remember where, or which one) and told them when I would arrive and that I needed the work done expeditiously, if possible.

After I landed and pulled onto their ramp, the mechanic marshalled me directly into the middle of their large, wide-open, mostly-empty hanger. He was pulling the cowling off before I even stepped out of the plane.

It was like Jiffy-Lube or something. I was impressed!

 

[81Horse]

"A well-known crop duster, flight instructor and FBO operator in his native Oregon, [Swede] Ralston will be perhaps be best remembered for the time he flew through the blimp hangar in Tillamook, Oregon."

Blimp hangars in general are an underappreciated aviation resource.

 

[FL420]

Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice.

Do you mean we should eschew obfuscation?

 

[FL420]

Was FO on an A320 that was marshalled partway into a hangar at SVMI in Caracas for maintenance.

 

[414Flyer]

A helicopter tried to taxi into a hangar in Santa Fe a couple years ago, with very bad results.

 

[bubbers44]

Midway has a hangar we taxiied our Jetstar into one afternoon in January. Maybe it was because we were from California but it seemed like the neighborly thing to do so it must be legal. Then it is more comfortable to pour your scotch and sodas before the ride to the hotel too. I kind of miss those days. Of course the last 10 years of never flying north of MIA isn't all bad.

 

[ReverseSensing]

Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice.

Classic! LOL!

 

[HawkerF/O]

As long as you don't scuff anything up, the FAA could care less. If you scuff something up and you were not taxing out to go flying or returning from a flight, the FAA could case less. It all about what your intentions are. If you scuff something up and you were taxing out to go fly or coming back from a trip, depending on the dollar amount (25K), the FAA will get involved. TO what degree depends on whether or not any damage you cause exceeded 25K or someone required hospitalization. I onced worked at an airport where a car was on the ramp going 50MPH+ and it slammed into a tzxing Cessna 210. The 210 was just coming from one FBO to another to pick some folks up, and the FAA did not so much as call to ask about how bad the damage was, much less how up. The fact that the airplane was not coming from or going flying took the FAA out of the accident (damaged was more than 25K) in this case.

 

[air cowboy]

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Said operators are permitted to "Travolta" their aircraft around indoors
See, it's all right there....

"Travolta... that just sounds like the right word.. that is creative, and I'm for one LOL.

 

[Big Duke Six]

It does have a motive ring to it. It can be used both as a noun ("Taxi onto the Travolta and gun it!') or as a verb ("Steve, can you Travolta the G-4 around to the front for me? I need to leave in an hour.")

 

[Pantherjon]

Just make it 'pithy'

Do you mean we should eschew obfuscation?