Administrators Eric Posted August 4, 2022 Administrators Share Posted August 4, 2022 Off The Boneyard Safari Group, on FaceBook “I’m from the FAA and I’m here to help” This was not mine, but it happened at the local airport. A guy that kept this ultralight there had a little incident a couple of weeks ago. Wasn’t much, it was nosed over out in the grass about 200’ off the runway. More then likely, there wasn’t much wrong with it, but it did have a fuel leak from the ordeal. Well, the local air Evac guys saw it happen and called 911, so the cops showed up. The guy wasn’t hurt, but being an older guy, he drove himself to the dr to get checked out. Meanwhile, the cops call the FAA for this ultralight non-issue that was out there in the grass. Two guys from the fsdo showed up and were doing their thing. They called the ntsb to come out at some point and dig around, but the FAA guys decided that it wasn’t safe to be around the site with the ballistic chute not being deployed. They thought it might go off on its own or something, so they insisted that someone launch it. One guy goes up to it and pulls the handle, setting off the rocket that takes the chute out, and in turn sets the gas on fire that leaked out. A 20lb fire extinguisher was depleted on it without putting the fire out, but a couple of fire trucks later, it was put out. And the pic is what remains after the government showed up to help. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 The more acronyms involved, the more problems there are. Personally I think gyrocopters are cooler, but ultralight planes are cool too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Typical. Have you ever seen a .gov employee actually improve a situation? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 26 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: Typical. Have you ever seen a .gov employee actually improve a situation? Yeah, when they leave. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeorge Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 I wouldn't have left in out in the open for the snoops to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.” 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 As "they" say PAR FOR THE COURSE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostinTexas Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 I'm From .gov & I'm Here To Help The most frightening phrase in the English language. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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