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Rush:

--- Quote from: nddons on August 20, 2022, 12:22:21 PM ---That’s the crux of the argument on a FB page. Someone said “Get your instrument rating and you’ll learn that you go straight in.”  Totally ignorant statement. I have my IR, but when it comes to being on an approach in VMC, you get no priority or privileges.

True the FARs give priority to someone on final to someone not on final. But so what?  Does that apply to 3 mile finals?  10 mile finals?  You can be right, even if end up being dead right.

--- End quote ---

When everybody else is operating VFR on a clear day in the pattern, you just look like an ass to come screaming in on a long final claiming you're IFR.  Being on an IFR plan does not absolve you from see and avoid in VMC conditions.  Sure you can practice approaches, but break it off above pattern altitude.  To blast in like that just seems rude.

But who knows, maybe he had good reason to push everybody else out of the way so he could get down in a hurry, maybe his wife was yammering at him about how bad she had to pee.

nddons:
Here’s Richard McSpadden’s take on this.

https://www.facebook.com/100000302565825/posts/pfbid0JxY9N2vMsJSwR8EDgka2dNDsyt4f1Y6SBM6MTMt2k4Z4i3aEbAYE8txTarTaXj8ul/?d=n

Rush:
AOPA video:

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/august/22/early-analysis-watsonville-municipal-airport?=utm_source=News&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=RSS

Rush:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-family-mourns-loss-of-32-year-old-killed-17392612.php


--- Quote ---Stuart Camenson, 32, was an avid flyer who was raised in the Bay Area and graduated from UC Santa Cruz.
Provided by the Camenson family/
A Bay Area family was mourning the death of their 32-year-old son, an energetic and avid flyer who died in a midair plane collision at Watsonville Municipal Airport in Santa Cruz County.

Stuart Camenson was practicing loops — touch downs and lift offs on the runway — at the airport on August 18, the day of the crash. He had been working on getting additional flight experience and certificates, his parents, Lori and Steve Camenson, said.
--- End quote ---


Um…… no.  He was not practicing “loops”.  Reporters.  Sheesh.

Bamaflyer:
Now the idiots over on POA are arguing over who has right of way concerning gliders vs powered airplanes.

https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/kwvi-watsonville-mid-air-multiple-fatalities.139336/page-14

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