Whats the weirdest thing you have seen on final?

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:46 pm

Chopper pilot mooning me

stef · Post by **stef** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:00 pm

That would have to be Dave F and George driving by in the back of Ennis' half ton waving their bare asses at me. Good thing it wasn't my leg. I was incapacitated laughing. Never seen a pair of guys moon with such enthusiasm.

stallie · Post by **stallie** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:05 pm

An R22 mustering cattle rise up from behind the trees at the edge of the runway. I went around, missing it by not much. He did apologise....

MCT · Post by **MCT** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:05 am

People squatting and taking a dump, right before the runway, next to the airport fence.

PopnChipper · Post by **PopnChipper** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:25 am

it was on T/O, but I still think it counts, just as I rotated off the runway, I saw a shit load of geese take-off a pond at the end, as the climbed out, about 3 of the dropped, goose hunters, right at the end of the runway, that was not very comforting

767 · Post by **767** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:24 pm

people standing on rwy.. had to overshoot obvioulsy.... i found out later they were some kind of inspectors from TC..

Northern Skies · Post by **Northern Skies** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:55 pm

In the year before I was around, the guy who RENTS the house at the end of the runway mowed "PILOTS F*CK OFF" into his lawn.

I saw him screaming and waving a fist at my plane a few times last summer.

Snowgoose · Post by **Snowgoose** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:52 pm

Cariboo on the runway in Whale Cove,NU

3 Cyclists on the runway in Killarney, ON

2 narwhales breaching short final into Repulse Bay, NU

A fishing boat hauling a harpooned bowhead whale into Repulse Bay,NU

CommSpaz · Post by **CommSpaz** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:32 am

A Pitts Special in front of me doing a loop, followed by ATC instructions to "Follow the aircraft ahead". My student looked at me and actully asked "Do we have to do a loop too?"

wrenchturner · Post by **wrenchturner** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:40 am

I'm not a pilot, and haven't seen it from the air, but does anyone know if the giant sling-shot is still in front of that house at the end of the runway in Airdrie, AB?

Zapp Brannigan · Post by **Zapp Brannigan** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:06 pm

This dude was walking across rwy 16 at yxd when i was in final. Didn't seem to care too much as I landed about 10 seconds after he cleared the threshold.

Didn't see the crosswalk or flashing pedestrian lights so I landed beside him.

Phileas Fogg · Post by **Phileas Fogg** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:12 pm

Seeing some Belugas on short final and my biologist passenger getting mad because we might hit the beasts and kill "them"!!!

Four1oh · Post by **Four1oh** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:26 pm

3 kids huffing on a dirt hill beside the button of the runway. Just another day in Shamatawa

Rudderless · Post by **Rudderless** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:04 pm

The B1B as ATC asked us to slow down to follow them. Maybe not weird, but impressive!

WRX · Post by **WRX** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:09 am

about 30 wallabies crossing the mid point of the runway as I flare onto RWY 20, Warnervale, NSW Australia

1 Deer on the threshold, Brampton, ON

YYC the place to be · Post by **YYC the place to be** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:16 am

I wanted to see if he would notice.....
Vref, 15 knots to high, 15 knot tailwind.
Didn't notice the high groundspeed
Didn't know why we whent around until I told him to look at the windsock in the overshoot. Yikes and I am supposed to sign off a guy single pilot when you do something like that....ouch

flight27 · Post by **flight27** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:23 am

Bearskin losing a main wheel on t/o from R22 YSB and having to hold for 15 minutes while they looked for the wheel and cleared debris off the runway.

TG · Post by TG » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:26 pm

A butterfly with broken wings

J31 · Post by **J31** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:25 pm

Black Bison in Fort Providence at night.

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:35 pm

Big old alligator on the runway at Punta Gorda.

bkn4thr · Post by **bkn4thr** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:36 pm

9 gals of 25w60 on the windshield, a steam of white smoke, an exhaust valve flapping in the breeze and a prop blade.

F,D and H · Post by **F,D and H** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:17 pm

1)A crumpled Baron
2)Didn't see it but, broke out at a 3mile FAF and had a chopper report climbing 3 miles out 100' below us off of the opposite rwy. Class E too, nice one ______ ___ radio

FOwithBO · Post by **FOwithBO** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:35 pm

I was landing a floatplane on the Indian Ocean and just as I was about to touch the water during the flare, a happy looking dolphin popped out of the water in front of us. I swear to god, it was the worst feeling in world thinking that you had just killed Flipper. We turned the aircarft around after landing and looked for him ........................ ahh yes, no sign, we didn't kill one of the friendliest, most intelligent animals on the planet. So then I let out a celebratory " AHK, KAHK, KAHK, KAHK, KAHK!!"

chief · Post by **chief** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:11 am

One of our flight nurses giving us a show of the frontal half by the threshold.

Airtids · Post by **Airtids** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:31 am

Full blown soccer match on Utilla, Bay Islands, Honduras.
Lots of folks walking down various runways, totally oblivious. One guy on a longboard with a bedsheet for a sail!
CDN Geese in CZNL. Had more than one birdstrike there over the years. Those things do a LOT of damage.

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