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The phrasing of this is very funny to me. How dare he land without permission, he should have flown circles until his fuel ran out and he crashed! /s
by nilamo 1y ago
The phrasing of this is very funny to me. How dare he land without permission, he should have flown circles until his fuel ran out and he crashed! /s
- bilekas 1y agoOr he shouldn't have changed his flight plan without letting the ATC know, these things cause massive headaches for everyone else. ATC can't have regular service running when there's a rogue flight in the air. He's lucky he is getting off with a slap on the wrist basically. The entitlement some people have is bewildering. There are many ways to get approval for a flight to the Antarctic. Do it the right way.
- scotty79 1y agoI bet there's huge air traffic in Antarctic. He surely inconvenienced many busy penguins.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoImagine a foreign small aircraft landing on an American air base without permission.
- flufluflufluffy 1y agoIt would definitely be blown to bits before ever getting the chance to land if there was no response from the pilot lol
- bluGill 1y agoThere are several ways to respond. They include I don't have a working radio but I need to land now. Control towers know these procedures exist and will look them up when needed (they are used so rarely that nobody remembers them). So long as you are acting like a pilot who in an emergency you will be fine in general. (of course if you are acting like an emergency in a way that would allow you to pull a 9-11 attack on something important they will shoot, but it isn't the default).
- mminer237 1y agoIt's happened many times. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YGdNJqbO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YGdNJqbO0
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoI know it's not unheard of, but I'm saying it's not going to be a nothing event.
- netsharc 1y agoSearching for his name shows he's been there since June, and that his original flight plan was just to fly over Puntas Arenas, which is about 1240 km away from the airbase he ended up at. I wish there's a way to punish lawyers (and defendants) who deliberately lie.