Whats the weirdest thing you have seen on final?
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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.
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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Not on short final and not unusual to see but I’ve come close to hitting a weather balloon as I was right over the beacon turning out bound. There is nothing like being in the clag and catching a glimpse of a red weather balloon go floating past the wing. The funny thing is that I’ve done this on two separate occasions. What are the chances of that?
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1) A drunk local passed out on the runway
2) A couple of drunks running around the runway with alcohol in their hands cheering the big white lights shining down on them from the sky
..well, more like the threshold of the runway..
2) A couple of drunks running around the runway with alcohol in their hands cheering the big white lights shining down on them from the sky
..well, more like the threshold of the runway..
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on final for Shamattawa: 3 kids standing on top of a dirt hill about 50 yards beside the button of the runway, all holding white plastic bags up to their faces.
Drinking outside the box.
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Northern Skies wrote: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.
I'm gonna bet that was in Springbank! He did the same thing when I was there! haha!
Drinking outside the box.
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Anyone remember the silo the farmer built just
off the end of the runway at Chatham, Ont?
off the end of the runway at Chatham, Ont?
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Photos, Chief??
"What's it doing now?"
"Fly low and slow and throttle back in the turns."
"Fly low and slow and throttle back in the turns."
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saw a duck totally mess up his landing in some glassy water. beak over tail he went
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I had another beaver driver scare the shit out of me one day.. I was landing between an island and the shoreline.. where the dock happened to be when out from the other side of the island right as I'm in the flare comes the other airplane on the step.. basically right at me. Smacked the throttle up to it's stops and held my breath till I was clear. I was about ready to strangle the guy!! Turned out his radio had shit the bed.. and he bought me a beer to make up for it.


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That reminds me of the time I was on final for a glassy water landing, had'er all lined up beautifully, going for the all-time greaser. I was about 50ft off the water, and between me and the shoreline I was watching out the side window, blows by another beaver with my buddy in it, and all his pax are flipping us the bird!! I laughed so hard as I skipped a 3-for-1 landing...
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Middle of the centerline.
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xsbank wrote:Photos, Chief??
haha i wish!
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Here's one of the weirdest things the internet has seen involving airplanes... 



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Hi everyone..my first post..The strangest thing..turning base to final in Guelph "CNC4" on a very blustery day in November, 1989.. A limb off a pine or spruce tree wizzed by our C150. I said to my instructor..Did you see that..She said yaeh ,lets call it a day.
Must have come of the Niagera escarpment....
Must have come of the Niagera escarpment....
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Doing a PPC ride with TC, simulated single engine approach only to find a guy being pulled by his dog team on his ATV, TC guy said hmm well you have your engine back.
Moose across the runway a few times but that's not weird.

Moose across the runway a few times but that's not weird.
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While working CYXD tower a few years back, an A/C on short final for 34 report passing a kite at about 400' (crossing 104th ave). We called the police. They found the culprits who were complaining that they already lost a kite earlier in the day to another airplane. No planes reported any damage though when we contacted all the arrivals for the previous couple of hours.
Other than that, the only really wierd thing that I saw during my flying career was the approach at Gries Fiord.
Rob Benusic, CYEG Tower
Other than that, the only really wierd thing that I saw during my flying career was the approach at Gries Fiord.
Rob Benusic, CYEG Tower
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On final for a slash fire (they used to do those) and a rather substantial log went by the window - called 'er a day there, too.
"What's it doing now?"
"Fly low and slow and throttle back in the turns."
"Fly low and slow and throttle back in the turns."
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Tornado approx 100 meters away from the threshold...... was medium intensity but later that day there were naders all over. This was in Golden Triangle Alabama!
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Let's see
Dead Pig
Cut off by a cariboo and had to follow them down the rest of the runway -- bug doctors had to take scat samples to see if they(the cariboo) were stressed -- I offered mine
being mooned by 2 guys
airplane abandoned on the threshold at night
sik sik -- made greasy spot
pissed off government employees in St Pierre
icebergs

Dead Pig
Cut off by a cariboo and had to follow them down the rest of the runway -- bug doctors had to take scat samples to see if they(the cariboo) were stressed -- I offered mine

being mooned by 2 guys
airplane abandoned on the threshold at night
sik sik -- made greasy spot
pissed off government employees in St Pierre
icebergs
Black Air has no Lift - Extra Fuel has no Weight
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Eek eeks eh?
I had a group of about four follow me around.. too and from the airplane and the dock all the time!
I had a group of about four follow me around.. too and from the airplane and the dock all the time!
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I witnessed a killer whale swimming straight up to the surface of the water with its mouth wide open getting ready to eat a scoop of salmon into its mouth. Only the dorsel fin breached the water. Total B.C. moment.
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On final RWY 30 in CYXD in the G1 just as control was being transfered from FSS to Tower, , tractor and mower mowing grass parallel to runway 34. Tractor pulled out on to RWY 30 to turn around. Too close to overshoot. Tractor drivers eyes as big as dinner plates. I was also one of the airplanes landing when kite robshelle was talking about was flying. Big damn kite!!!
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Coyotes used to sit on the grass on the side of the runway, then on rollout, they'd hop on the pavement side, and watch you taxi by. It was just weird as it was in a city, not out in the boones.
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Not on final,on takeoff by Dawsons Landing,Rivers Inlet I had a humpback come up right in front of me getting on the step.pulled the power back, waited to see where it came up next and then took off.
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