hey everyone Jason Schaffer here of m0a comm alongside Wayne Middleton Wayne is
really in charge of all things business development and I'm sure Way also heads
up our fantastic CFI partner program so some UCF ice this is the guy you've been
talking to so much which you may not know about Wayne as he spent how many
years in airport management almost 18 years almost 18 years in airport
management as manager of some large airports field management
yeah a bunch of stuff so he's seen his share unfortunately of incidents and
accidents and although a topic we don't like to speak about I wanted to bring
your insight into it and I want to hear what would happen if I witnessed an
incident or accident as someone at the airport or what if I was a part of that
incident or maybe as simple as I just blew a tire what are some of these
scenarios that you've seen and what is the best course of action that we as
pilots can do to assist or if we're involved in ourselves well first I would
say it depends on what type of airport you're at if you had a pilot control the
airport and you have a flat tire on the runway obviously I'll use the example is
Williston I may not have any other pilots in the pattern so you might be
the only one out there so naturally you're gonna shut down your engine and
want to get out and look at it and if you're stuck on the runway make sure you
have a handheld paying attention to the radio because you don't know who else is
coming in they may not hear a radio call whatever the case might be if you're at
a controlled Airport of course you have a control tower they'll be handling
things for you but on the other hand if it's a true accident we've had some
incidents that control tower airports that the tower never saw so pilots
actually reporting that trying to give out some positions where they are on the
airport or whatever the case is and then of course you have the emergency
equipment so you want to stay out of the way for them I've always suggested to
shut down wherever they are if they're an uncontrolled area over on the ramps
to shut down and wait and stay out of the way don't try to be the hero let the
actual emergency equipment do what they're supposed to do sometimes people
getting involved that causes more issues and than anything yeah I totally agree
with it I can think of one that was actually out at the Wilson Airport I was
flying with Matt we were in Mike Sulu I believe we were number two to depart an
airplane came in and had ground loop we call that an incident
basically no no one was hurt we could see people walking around and all we saw
was the we kind of saw the ground loop happen a big cloud of dust went up well
the plane in front of in front of us then announces that he's about to take
off and Matt actually steps on the radio's know there's a disabled plane
down there look and and sure enough the guy ended up just kind of tacks it on
down looked and proceeded to take off but you don't know what kind of debris
is on that runway so we went down we actually kind of a high-speed taxi down
pulled off to the side shut down just to check everything out from there and then
we were on the handheld kind of keeping everybody away exactly now if we discuss
a little bit more and there was also another aircraft and the pattern that
day wasn't doing anything legal but he kept shootin his approaches and he was
coming down to believe 556 on her feet just shooting approaches wow he wasn't
anything illegal focusing on the runway trying to deal with an accident or an
incident you don't know what they're doing especially in a pilot controlled
Airport so you know always kind of keep that in mind the people out there trying
to do their job take care of the situation as quick as possible
absolutely so anything again where if you haven't blown a tire yet in aviation
it's what I can happen it happened to Wayne the other day at the Fort
Lauderdale Airport don't bring up anything sad no waiting did a fantastic
job it just happens to us sometimes and Wayne when to get me back you can ask so
many tires I've blown which is a lot right and it's not always from bad
landing some things on the runway sometimes things just happen you spend
enough time in aviation you're probably blowing a tire on landing and now we
kind of know what to expect I think the big takeaway when Craig and if I'm wrong
is to have a handheld radio in the airplane pilot controlled control it
doesn't matter to me I'm hopping on the radio to let somebody know that this is
happening I love what you said that you've been to control tower
you know airports and they didn't even know something happens if they're busy
controlling everybody else so just something else to be mindful of listen
any stories you want to share any questions you have for myself or for
Wayne reach out to us in the comment box below at this video on facebook on
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