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But why the high airspeed and 100 feet? Seems that a pass at 100 knots and 300 feet with, possibly the gear down and a touch of flaps, would allow for a longer display of noise to scare the critters off; allow for a more thorough check of the "hazards" and would make for less pilot workload (more thorough attention to the purpose for which one makes such a "runway check").
100 feet and 180 still sounds like shining one's a--, and you never know who is down there waiting for you to taxi in.
John Schroeder
LNCE - Painting
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:44:01 -0500, kneaded pleasures <kneadedpleasures@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Neal: The low-altitude fly over is standard practice for many of the pilots that fly into obscure and uncontrolled airports in much of North America including Canada. It permits the pilots to announce to anyone on the ground but not on radio that a landing is intended. Further, it clears birds, deer and other varmits from the runway and permits the landing pilot a closeup of wind, ground hazards and runway obstructions. Greg Nelson
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