barnstorm2
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2003
- Messages
- 14,573
- Location
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Aircraft
- 2-place Air Command CLT SxS (project), & Twinstarr Autogyro
- Total Flight Time
- 750+hrs and climbing
3 years ago I was flying in the back seat of my gyro and Connie was in the front seat. She was new to flying and like any passenger watching the scenery below.
After a while of flying on a straight GPS course cross country I happened to spy some movement under the gyro and my heart skipped a beat.
I was looking down over an antenna that I did not see approach. If I were 100 feet lower I might have been into it.
People think that antennas would be easy to spot but sometimes they are not, especally in certain lighting conditions they can seem invisible.
If you watch the NTSB reports towers and wires seem to get a good percentage of rotorcraft pilots.
I am lucky. I was able to afford to get a used Garmin 396 with terrain avoidance alarms. Still, you can't depend on any technology.
On the way home from Mentone these demons appeared out of the mist and reminded me what fate awaits the non-diligent pilot.
(the first photo is just of the country side conditions)
You can't see them in the photos, but both had guy wires spanning WAY out around the towers.
Fly Safe.
After a while of flying on a straight GPS course cross country I happened to spy some movement under the gyro and my heart skipped a beat.
I was looking down over an antenna that I did not see approach. If I were 100 feet lower I might have been into it.
People think that antennas would be easy to spot but sometimes they are not, especally in certain lighting conditions they can seem invisible.
If you watch the NTSB reports towers and wires seem to get a good percentage of rotorcraft pilots.
I am lucky. I was able to afford to get a used Garmin 396 with terrain avoidance alarms. Still, you can't depend on any technology.
On the way home from Mentone these demons appeared out of the mist and reminded me what fate awaits the non-diligent pilot.
(the first photo is just of the country side conditions)
You can't see them in the photos, but both had guy wires spanning WAY out around the towers.
Fly Safe.