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'I'm Not Allowed To Land In Fog'

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A pilot with more than 30 years experience has been forced to turn his plane around - because he was not qualified to land in fog. Skip related content
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'I'm Not Allowed To Land In Fog'





Passengers on the 8.45am Flybe flight to Paris were just minutes away from landing at their destination when they were told they would have to go all the way back to Cardiff.
One passenger from Bristol missed a job interview in France because of the incident.
Cassandra Grant explained: "Twenty minutes outside Paris, the captain said, 'Unfortunately I'm not qualified to land the plane in Paris.
"'They are asking for a level two qualification and I only have a level five. We'll have to fly back.'"
A spokeswoman for the airline said Flybe backed the pilot's decision "100 per cent".
He had recently switched from flying a Bombardier Q300 to a Bombardier Q400 and has not completed the "requisite low-visibility training," she said.
The dense fog covering Charles de Gaulle airport had not been there when the flight took off, she added.
The plane was already three hours late due to bad weather in Wales.
The pilot's situation is "quite unusual but probably not unheard of," according to the Civil Aviation Authority.


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081218...lowed-to-land-in-fog-45dbed5_1.html?printer=1
 
Getting the plane on the ground is the easy part. It'll fly all the way to the crash site. Taking off again is sometimes a problem.

Better safe than sorry. You can tell that I hate flying!!!!
 
We had a similar experience a few years ago. My buddy is a pilot and at the time, only had a VFR rating. We went up flying in a small cessna 152. We checked with the local forcasts and the ceiling was 4500ft. Well, we got up in the air and within 20 mins or so, a front moved in and the ceiling dropped to about 800ft. The tower was telling us we'd have to divert to the next nearest airport that had visibility which was 180miles away as he didn't have an IFR rating yet. We didn't have enough fuel onboard to make it there. We also could not see the runway where we originally intended on landing at. We spotted the highway and followed it back and finally, at the last minute, we broke through the clouds and spotted the airport. The tower was still insistant that we proceed to their airport.(the tower was based at the airport 180 miles away). Well, we finally convinced them to let us land at our local airport. It was either we try landing at our airport or try to make it to the airport in the city and risk not having enough fuel to make it.
 
That pilot made the right choice. In operating any sort of machinery, the sign of a good man at the controls is one who knows the limitations of the machine and, more importantly, himself.:punk:
 
groomerguyNWO said:
We had a similar experience a few years ago. My buddy is a pilot and at the time, only had a VFR rating. We went up flying in a small cessna 152. We checked with the local forcasts and the ceiling was 4500ft. Well, we got up in the air and within 20 mins or so, a front moved in and the ceiling dropped to about 800ft. The tower was telling us we'd have to divert to the next nearest airport that had visibility which was 180miles away as he didn't have an IFR rating yet. We didn't have enough fuel onboard to make it there. We also could not see the runway where we originally intended on landing at. We spotted the highway and followed it back and finally, at the last minute, we broke through the clouds and spotted the airport. The tower was still insistant that we proceed to their airport.(the tower was based at the airport 180 miles away). Well, we finally convinced them to let us land at our local airport. It was either we try landing at our airport or try to make it to the airport in the city and risk not having enough fuel to make it.
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Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.
 
groomerguyNWO said:
Or......any landing you can walk away from in a successful one!
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I walked away from one once, when my legs were like rubber. Damn ground effect, anyway. At least I learned the landing gear is more springy than I thought...:huh:. Oh, and did you know it takes a 4 wheel drive truck to get a Cessna 172 out of a boggy area?:ninja:
 
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