Potato plant in Idaho builds illegal structure in front of established airport and directly in it’s published glideslope. Apparently the FAA knew about this in 2017 and decided to,… permanently turn the glideslope lights off, resulting in the tragic death of a young pilot.
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*its published glideslope
I fucking love aviation enthusiasts. I cannot follow this to save my life but I appreciate their hard work.
Guy who made this video once tried to run from the cops in his WW2 era cargo plane, often wildly speculates the cause of accidents far before the NTSB has a chance to investigate, and is a transphobic piece of garbage. He is not to be respected in the aviation community.
https://www.avweb.com/news/pilot-arrested-after-airport-incident/
[What a great guy, RIP Brittanny](https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2009/11/12/delta-pilot-accused-of-a-lot-of-things/#:%7E:text=According%20to%20the%20Atlanta%20Journal,Delta%20pilot%20Dan%20Wayne%20Gryder)
Dan Gryder’s videos, can be long winded. However, he is very well versed in the world of aviation and worth listening to.
For those who don’t know, instrument approach procedures enable pilots to find runways in very poor visibility. The goal is to have the airplane in a specific part of the sky and pointed in a particular direction from which they should be able to observe the runway and land. In all but a Category III Instrument Landing Approach, pilots MUST see the runway and land visually. (Category III approaches use the autopilot, a radar altimeter, and very carefully trained crew to land an airliner on autopilot only –they do not have see the runway)
This instrument approach should have been withdrawn. It was very subtle, and deceptively complicated. Nevertheless, the pilot did everything she was supposed to do. Unfortunately a plant on the other side of the river from the runway had constructed a stack directly on the centerline of the runway. There are regulations requiring people to notify the FAA of the construction of such obstacles. For a variety of reasons, this instrument approach did not document the stack. The pilot had no way of knowing that the stacks were there. On that foggy, snowy day she could not see the stacks at all. The Aviation warning light on the stack was a meager red LED lamp and it appears that it wasn’t even hooked up.
Many balls were dropped in this case. As with most accidents it is never just one thing that causes them. In this case, however, the pilot was NOT at fault. She was at exactly the area of the sky where she was expected to be. Dan Gryder had to do a lot of sleuthing to figure out what actually went wrong here. It is not a pretty picture. But it is one that should concern pilots of aircraft everywhere.
I added this to the podcast playlist cause an hour to watch something is not a luxury I have.
if you live in idaho and think for a second that your guv cares about you, congrats you are dumb enough to live in idaho.