Cop-ter Chases Pilot Wandering Over City

NBCNewYork.com ^ | 07/29/2009 | Jennifer Millman

[Concho]

I suspect home built, empty panel, apparently no radios. I propose that the guy built the plane and was taking/ferrying it to the small airport for further inspections or equipment, and got off course. It is plenty easy to do when everything below you looks like city.

[theFIRMbss]

>pulling his medical certificate

If he--wink--has a
medical certificate
that he will show them!

[Slings and Arrows]

My favorite was the "Thompson Flier" an aluminum disk about three feet in diameter with a lawn mower engine powering a propeller situated in the middle, and the prop underneath.

Some people don't bother with the disk.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Flying cars will be possible when adequate automated navigation and collision avoidance systems are developed. Current GPS doesn’t provide enough accuracy for vertical separation measured in less than hundreds of feet.

The next gen of GPS will, however, and is already well into development. The precision is estimated to be adequate to provide separation of vehicles on highways, let alone in the air, where greater tolerances can be used.

[kenth]

It doesn’t help that the article is poorly written and jumps around chronologically. But it does sound like he thought about landing at Kennedy, which seeing all the passenger jets should have signaled to him to veer away before getting that far.

[kenth]

http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/flying-lawn-mower.html

[Slings and Arrows]

Huh! I had no idea there were production models.

[webschooner]

Has this poor man been subjected to secret experimental Obamacare?

Congress should have hearings.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

/mark

[PapaBear3625]

Let’s see now....Piper Cub vs 747-400.Which one will get the worse end of the deal?

Since both would crash from such a collision, the question is not that important.

[PushinTin]

Most Definitely!!!!