Mid - Air @ Caboolture
I would suggest it is not wise to start a takeoff roll when you cannot visually clear an intersecting runway and you know someone is in the process of landing on that runway. Even if they made a call to indicate they would be holding short, even if this unnofficial LAHSO was a routine procedure at the field.
It points out to me the importance of an "entering and rolling" call.. which perhaps might have alerted the Pawnee to look left? ..but then maybe they did and he was occupied with the go-around??
Instructor: "Why the %$#%$ didn't you ... ?!?"
Student: "'Cause I'm an effing student, that's why!"
No winners here.
All accidents are ones where there would be nothing to see here if the holes in the Swiss cheese hadn’t lined up…
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I would suggest it is not wise to start a takeoff roll when you cannot visually clear an intersecting runway and you know someone is in the process of landing on that runway. Even if they made a call to indicate they would be holding short, even if this unnofficial LAHSO was a routine procedure at the field.
I strongly suspect the only reason Dave started to turn was he suddenly saw or realised the Pawnee was coming. When I flew with him just before the accident, he gave a very detailed brief in the event of an engine failure. This plan was straight ahead to one of the only clear patches surrounded by heavy timber on the extended centreline.
To my way of thinking the only cure is for everyone to use the same runway and that is the one most favourable to the wind direction. I know airmanship is no longer fashionable but that is what we always did in the past and it seemed to work.
To my way of thinking the only cure is for everyone to use the same runway and that is the one most favourable to the wind direction. I know airmanship is no longer fashionable but that is what we always did in the past and it seemed to work.
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Commencing the turn, a pilot creates a blind spot in the opposite direction and excludes themselves from the see-be seen, especially in high wing aircraft. I am not referring to any person, this is my personal takeway.
The tug would have been towing a cable, so avoiding using the runway that the other aircraft are operating on, may have been one of these reasons.
It points out to me the importance of an "entering and rolling" call.
Commencing the turn, a pilot creates a blind spot in the opposite direction and excludes themselves from the see-be seen,
Commencing the turn, a pilot creates a blind spot in the opposite direction and excludes themselves from the see-be seen, especially in high wing aircraft. I am not referring to any person, this is my personal takeway.
To my way of thinking the only cure is for everyone to use the same runway and that is the one most favourable to the wind direction. I know airmanship is no longer fashionable but that is what we always did in the past and it seemed to work.
It points out to me the importance of an "entering and rolling" call.. which perhaps might have alerted the Pawnee to look left? ..but then maybe they did and he was occupied with the go-around??
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Commencing the turn, a pilot creates a blind spot in the opposite direction and excludes themselves from the see-be seen, especially in high wing aircraft. I am not referring to any person, this is my personal takeway.