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Pilot Zone => Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) => Topic started by: PeterNSteinmetz on October 14, 2021, 04:35:35 PM

Title: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: PeterNSteinmetz on October 14, 2021, 04:35:35 PM: 2 fatal, rip.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/sources-plane-crashes-in-residential-neighborhood-in-waukesha (https://www.cbs58.com/news/sources-plane-crashes-in-residential-neighborhood-in-waukesha)

N628RS

Evidently non instrument rated and using a special VFR clearance.

As @Steingar has noted on TOF, lots of places to land nearby, so a real pity.

Kathryn’s Report link - http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/10/glasair-glastar-n628rs-fatal-accident.html
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: nddons on October 14, 2021, 09:20:19 PM: Thanks for posting this. I’ve been too busy to post about it. I keep my Navion at Waukesha (KUES). I checked with my friends when this happened and no one knew anything about it. I checked the METARs and ceilings were 400-800’. I just assumed the pilot was instrument rated. I’m sorry, SVFR on a long-distance flight and not being IR is stupid as fuck.
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: Rush on October 15, 2021, 04:29:43 AM: Quote
Both are being remembered by neighbors here who are extremely thankful for whatever the pilot did to avoid hitting these homes.

Uh, nope. But I’m fine with letting the neighbors think that.
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: PeterNSteinmetz on October 15, 2021, 07:18:04 AM: Quote from: nddons on October 14, 2021, 09:20:19 PM
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been too busy to post about it. I keep my Navion at Waukesha (KUES). I checked with my friends when this happened and no one knew anything about it. I checked the METARs and ceilings were 400-800’. I just assumed the pilot was instrument rated. I’m sorry, SVFR on a long-distance flight and not being IR is stupid as fuck.

Did he perhaps think the bad weather was localized and he could get out from under it? Agreed a very risky thing to do.

I think a lot of VFR only pilots seriously under estimate just how quickly you will become disoriented and crash.
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: Old Crow on October 15, 2021, 10:40:26 AM: Quote from: PeterNSteinmetz on October 15, 2021, 07:18:04 AM
. I think a lot of VFR only pilots seriously under estimate just how quickly you will become disoriented and crash.
As a flight instructor for the last 40 some years I agree with that!
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: Rush on October 15, 2021, 11:30:50 AM: I wonder if she had breast cancer. She’s got a little left arm edema going on there.
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: Steingar on October 19, 2021, 07:49:37 AM: What I recall about that part of the nation is lots of smooth fields and way, way too many "Wau"s. Waukesha, Waukeegan, Wautoma, Waupaka and more.
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: nddons on October 19, 2021, 08:32:49 AM: Quote from: Steingar on October 19, 2021, 07:49:37 AM
What I recall about that part of the nation is lots of smooth fields and way, way too many "Wau"s. Waukesha, Waukeegan, Wautoma, Waupaka and more.
Hey hey! Never too many. I fly out of Waukesha, I work in Wauwatosa, and fly to Wausau, Waupaca. Never been to Wautoma or Waupun. Been to Waunakee, and we fly to the annual airshow in Waukegan, but Waukegan is in the People’s Republic of Illinois.
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: Jim Logajan on October 19, 2021, 09:06:36 AM: Just wau!
Title: Re: Glastar crash near Wausheka
Post by: Little Joe on October 19, 2021, 03:18:54 PM: Quote from: nddons on October 19, 2021, 08:32:49 AM
Hey hey! Never too many. I fly out of Waukesha, I work in Wauwatosa, and fly to Wausau, Waupaca. Never been to Wautoma or Waupun. Been to Waunakee, and we fly to the annual airshow in Waukegan, but Waukegan is in the People’s Republic of Illinois.
And people make fun of Atlanta with all of their "Peachtree" streets.