| Re: Memorable flights? Gurus in the sky... |
Subject: Re: Memorable flights? Gurus in the sky... by Calm on 2009/5/13 21:07:40 Years ago I was returning to Winnipeg International from northern Manitoba in a beaver bush plane. Just the pilot and myself, so he had me use the headphones. While listening to all the chatter from the tower, my pilot was earnestly given approach instructions, which seemed to change the closer we got on approach. Tower was also speaking with '747 heavy'. When we were at about 500 ft the tower instructed us to taxi off the runway 'immediately' upon touchdown. This was repeated 2 more times within the following 30 seconds, and we could hear the stress and urgency in the towers voice. At around 200 ft the tower suddenly SCREAMED at us saying DROP DOWN! Pilot did, of course. And we both got a close-up of the underside of a 747! Flew right over us, not 100 ft away and touched down a few hundred feet ahead. My pilot struggled with the turbulence but got us down. |
