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Harrison Ford Involved in Airline Mishap


Kip Powick

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A great Hollywood actor who owns a beautiful DHC2 Beaver but anytime I've seen him interviewed on tv (Kimmel,Fallon, Live w/Kelly, etc) he generally sounds like he has some kind of mental issue. Land on a taxiway at a busy airport you'd better have a good reason. Last time I did was on YTR's Papa taxiway and with full permission of the tower due to a full circuit of C130's. 

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Having money & fame doesn't necessarily mean someone's going to be a competent aviator.

To overfly a crossways B - 737 and then drop your aircraft onto a taxiway during day VFR conditions says much about the pilot's skillset.

 

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Agreed Defcon. To land on a taxiway, intentional or otherwise, is one thing. To overfly the B737, as you stated, does question his "airmanship". This usually could result is one's loss of license till one gets some "retraining".

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Only someone who isn't a pilot would be surprised about someone landing on a taxiway instead of a runway.  Once you've picked out the "runway" you no longer think about where it is and instead think about aiming at the right spot, the right speed, the right rate-of-descent etc.  Unless you train yourself to add; "right runway?" every 3rd cycle through the "right spot?, right speed? right descent?" mental scan you'll eventually find yourself on a taxiway wondering how it happened.

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