Wednesday, October 27, 2010

And we thought W was a bad pilot

Sen James Inhofe R-OK proves once again that rules and laws are not made for Republican/Teabaggers.
Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) was flying his twin-engine Cessna 340 down to Port Isabel, Tex., on Thursday, headed to his house on South Padre Island. It's something he's done every so often for the past 50 years.

There were these huge (60 feet long by 10 feet wide) yellow X's on the main runway, which aren't there to mark the landing spot. The big signs were laid out to indicate that the runway was closed. There were workmen painting and doing general maintenance on the runway.

Inhofe, who was traveling with three others, told us Tuesday that he was "getting ready to land, then I saw a big X," and the workers and equipment. So he flew the six-seater over the workers and landed "well off to the side," he said.

Runway closures and other important information are highlighted in what's called a Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM, which all pilots are supposed to read before take-off. Inhofe said he "didn't have a NOTAM."
OK, so sometimes life will hand you a surprise runway closing but it should also wake you up enough to not compound the error on you return trip.
On Sunday, Inhofe headed back home - but not without incident. Fortunately, he didn't try to take off on the closed runway. Actually, he didn't try to take off on any of the four bi-directional runways at the airport. He chose instead to use a taxiway.

"I really didn't have a choice," he explained, "given the size of the plane. The taxiway is very wide and long, better than the rough runways" at that airport. "There was no alternative," he said. And he notified the airport official that he intended to use the taxiway.
And if the Republican/Teabaggers win the Senate, he will be chairman of the Transportation Aviation subcommittee. At which point all bad pilots will be changing their voter registration to Republican/Teabagger because IOKIYAR.

// posted by montag @ 1:24 PM
Comments:
Glad I'm not an Okie. Do not meet any one from there. I guess they like to hang around exclusively with other people as dumb as themselves.
# posted by Blogger One Fly : 1:44 PM
 

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