Yep, train safety is terrific today. So long as you don’t care about the people who live anywhere near a train track like East Palestine Ohio. Not a very good analogy by the way.

(Written on 03/31/2023)(Permalink)

I’ve never represented any union or members. Just an attorney for 44 years. But, union hires legal counsel & can fire legal counsel if they don’t like their legal advice, like anyone else who hires an attorney. If the client wants to try and cut a deal, the lawyer will do that. If the client decides to “delay, delay, delay”, their lawyer will do that (or resign). I’m still trying to figure out why their strategy is delay, since NTSB is going to have evidence from multiple sources to justify charge of reckless operation

(Written on 02/17/2023)(Permalink)

Heard same story when city of Blue Ash in Cincinnati closed Blue Ash airport a dozen years ago. For 2 years it was only a “park” with walking trail around the runway and taxiways. Fast Forward a few years, 3 big restaurants, huge condo developments, million dollar houses and more to come.

(Written on 02/17/2023)(Permalink)

People age at different rates as we know. 74 may not be too old, but then it might be. I'm 66 and I sure hope someone will tell me before I do something really awful when I should no longer be flying. Maybe he is ok, but he ought to have an independent doctor giving him his medical, not someone who is in his pocket. I'm sure he doesn't want to stop flying, but he also likely doesn't want to kill himself or others flying. John Glenn was flying his P Baron at my home airport until he was 90 at high skill level. Even did the BPPP at CMH. But most of us will be dead by 90, so just because of a number doesn't mean you should or should not still be flying --- or driving a car for that matter.

(Written on 02/17/2017)(Permalink)

If he was able to see and talk to ATC about the airliner on his taxiway, doesn't seem like it was a low instrument approach. If he thought it was on his runway, Talk about a reason to go missed.......

(Written on 02/17/2017)(Permalink)

I hope so. Likely the Air Force knows a little bit more, by this time, of what and how that plane is used and what a president and his team expect so that it is not obsolete the day it rolls out the door.

(Written on 01/20/2017)(Permalink)

Maybe you are right, they were both looking and nobody minded the store and they lost it. Still, We will just disagree. No need to bother trying a localizer approach when you are below minimums and 8 miles from an airport with 4 ILS. PS It wasn't cold enough here Tuesday for ice and no one else reported ice in this state all day.

(Written on 11/13/2015)(Permalink)

You said it. My only mention of local knowledge is that anyone who has knowledge of this airport knows why you damn well better fly the localizer approach as published and not try to duck under and get a look. They had made it into KMGY which is flat as a pancake in all directions. If the weather was low enough that they felt the need to go lower and look at AKR, well, that shold have been all they needed to divert to CAK and we wouldn't be talking about it.

(Written on 11/13/2015)(Permalink)

Cheaper fuel indeed. If you don't have local knowledge, then why do you use smaller airports without ILS approaches much less a tower, when the weather is right at minimums? If you're going to go below minimums to try and sneak in, why in the world would you try it at an airport in a bowl, with hills to the east and north, no ILS and a 4000 foot runway instead on 8000? When flying approach into CAK you can often see part of the runway at AKR, but you know that it's IMC flying that localizer approach - over the hills.

(Written on 11/13/2015)(Permalink)

You said it precisely. When the weather is that low and CAK is that near, you go to Akron Canton, which sits ON a hill as opposed to AKR which sits in a bowl, with hills to the east and north where they went down. At one time I used AKR, but it lacks a lot of facilities and CAK isn't that much farther to downtown. From now through April we will have low scuz that comes and goes. In the Summer there is fog. Sometimes it burns off by 9 and sometimes not til afternoon. You don't have to be a weatherman to know what was going on here. They went to Lunken instead of CVG and then flew about 25 miles from Lunken to Wright Brothers, not DAY. And the weather was low both the day before and day they crashed.

(Written on 11/13/2015)(Permalink)