[EveningStar]

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[EveningStar]

Aviation ping

[Joe 6-pack]

I guess now when you google “Senator Airplane” McCaskill’s little tax problem won’t be so obvious.

[saganite]

The guy needs to lose his pilots license. He’s a hazard to aviation.

[rawhide]

Boyd also said that Inhofe showed little contrition following the close call. “He come over here and started being like, 'What the hell is this? I was supposed to have unlimited airspace.'”

Arrogant jerk!

[Triple]

didn’t Inhoffe lose the prop from his plane in the Clinton years?

[BJClinton]

He needs to get his license revoked.

[FR_addict]

I read the actual report at the site and it sounds like the story is exaggerated. He was told to take a a remedial course, which he did.

[NonValueAdded]

“He come over here and started being like, 'What the hell is this? I was supposed to have unlimited airspace.'”

IOW "don't you know who I am?"
Answer: yeah, another perfumed prince.

[fireman15]

This happened over six months ago. The aviation press covered it differently than this article. He made mistakes. He didn't check the NOTAMs ahead of time. He didn't notice the Xs on the runway until he was already committed to landing. The airport is uncontrolled, but he had been on the radio with a nearby controller who gave him some type of confusing “clearance” to land. Fortunately, no one was hurt. He took appropriate actions afterward, the FAA investigated and he was given a not unusual “punishment”.

I have been flying for nearly twenty years. I own an airplane and a house on an airport. One should never take seriously anything you read about aviation in a non-aviation publication written by people who are not pilots. They never get it right ever, ever. This is simply an over dramatized hit piece in James Inhofe, nothing more, nothing less. If I had made the same mistakes I most likely would have received similar corrective action from the FAA, not “lost my ticket”.