Current. Live about 45 miles north of Palm Beach International at a place called the Treasure Coast Airpark.
Palm beach is famous for cessnas and pipers flying into 90 north and mucking up passenger carriers when they;ve been cleared for 90 right displaced about 5000 feet from the north runway.
Tomorrow I'll fly from my back yard to sebring for breakfast and maybe over to look at the Gulf waters then home.
Why are you not current if I may ask? Not meaning disrespect or anything, just know I went without flying for a few years and it bothered me.
As for the the pilot in question the big one had clearence and from what I gathered the itty bitty got into their wake. You know the turbulance a big one will create and you need to get the hell away from that one way or another.
I don't believe it said the itty bitty was flying i.f.r. and could have moved over. Once a 747 is coming down it is like an aircraft carrier to stop.
Any and every c.f.i. should know that.
I guess I'd still like to fly. But there's nothing practical about it in the NYC area if one doesn't maintain IFR currency, which is a real burden. My wife never liked flying so we didn't take many trips together. Mostly I would fly for business and back and forth to Nantucket where my family summered when the kids were young. After Nantucket went away and the business flights were mostly 1000 miles plus, I just didn't have a practical reason to continue.
I think you are wrong about the incident in question. The Boeing PASSED the Cessna while it was on final. (Yes. I know there are parallel runways.) The Boeing is an experimental craft, or it should be. It is the obligation of the overtaking aircraft not to overtake if it creates a dangerous cituation, and it is certainly the obligation of the tower not to allow such conditions to occur. But he probably didn't want to tell the big, powerful, Boeing to go around. So he almost killed someone instead.
ML/NJ
Tomorrow is not good for me......but I sure look forward to buying breakfast!