Commander 114 almost a Baron victim

[N4843W]

Just saw this AOPA safety video about a Baron who "drifted" 320 feet from the old short line at Ft. Pierce, ending up on RWY 14 where a Commander was landing, N4912W,owned by Peter Baur. He has been a member since 2008, no posts, last visited 2 years ago.

See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77ZdpybETU

Anyone know him?

 

[Frank]

The same thing happened to me last Saturday, although not that close as the Baron video.
At Pearson Field, we do not have a tower, but we are under Class C and have to advise Portland Tower (KPDX), which is Portland Advisory, that we have the weather and our intentions. Then, on the same freq, we advise Pearson Traffic and our direction of flight. All radio calls are recorded.

I was on a 1 mile final at 80 knots. Called and announced the 1 mile final. I had previously announced downwind, base, final, and then the 1 mile final.
A Cessna 172 called right after I announced the 1 mile final and said he was taking the active for departure and pulled out onto the runway in front of me. The Cessna was easy to see, but that is not the point.
I called on the radio and announced I was going around. The Cessna pilot said he was sorry.

The best part - it was a good test to do an unplanned go-around.

Frank L

 

[wiguy]

In the video linked above the ‘creeper’ mentioned being heads down & slow to notice he was moving? Said he was doing an engine run up? Yes, that or GPS programming has been known to absorb attention when thinking you’re stationary. The Baron did creep rather far in the incident.

Anyway, something to be aware of.

 

[plight]

At my home airport, a Moony driver was in his tie down, engine running, heads down. The aircraft started "creeping" forward, coming to a stop when it hit a Piper Cherokee tied down on the other side of the ramp. A lot of damage to the Cherokee, wing, fuselage, fuel tanks, fuel all over the ramp. The Mooney pilot and his wife were trapped in the aircraft. Could not get the door open as the aircraft was jammed into the side of the Cherokee. Not cool.

 

[sshore]

At my home airport, a Moony driver was in his tie down, engine running, heads down. The aircraft started "creeping" forward, coming to a stop when it hit a Piper Cherokee tied down on the other side of the ramp. A lot of damage to the Cherokee, wing, fuselage, fuel tanks, fuel all over the ramp. The Mooney pilot and his wife were trapped in the aircraft. Could not get the door open as the aircraft was jammed into the side of the Cherokee. Not cool.

Another testimonial for the need of two doors.

I used to fly a Malibu a few years ago for a buddy. The only thing worse than having one door to the cockpit is not having any doors at all. Plus a giant spar to have to get over in case you needed to get out in a hurry.

 

[drcrews]

About 6 months ago, I was on short final, approximately 400’ AGL, was cleared to land at KMLU, a towered field in Monroe, LA. There was a Saratoga holding short, doing his run-up. He completed his run-up, announced to the tower that he was ready to depart and despite the tower telling him to hold short for approaching traffic (me), he was one track minded, and took the active, completely missing what the tower said and instead repeated, “clear for take off…” I didn’t wait for ATC to even respond. When I saw him rolling past the hold short line, I took immediate evasive maneuvers and pulled up, announced I’d be making a right 180 back to downwind to re-enter the pattern and set-up for a right base for the same runway. The Saratoga pilot never said another word. And ATC did not either…gotta be ready for whatever. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[plight]

Seems to me that you should talk to the local FAA.