Sorry for the total lack of posts lately but the weather here in Wisconsin has finally gotten good and I’ve been jumping my butt off trying to make up for all the lost time. Not all that much new happening around here anyway, fly, jump, repeat. We finally finished filming season two of DANGEROUS FLIGHTS and it should be airing in Canada sometime in September and word has it that season one has been picked up by a network in the US but I’m not at liberty to say which one at this time. We did have an interesting visit from the local police last week. I was about to get on the plane and make a jump when one of Baldwin’s finest drove up, got out of his squad car and approached me. “I don’t suppose your plane crashed today did it?”
I looked over at our Cessna 208 Caravan that we use for skydiving and noticed a complete lack of fire damage and crumpledness and responded “No, I don’t think so.”
“That’s what I thought, apparently a train engineer reported that one of your planes flew right past the front of their train engine and crashed into a field.”
I could see how a train engineer might mistake our plane landing on our grass runway for a crash landing because the end of the runway is only fifty feet from the train tracks and we don’t clear the raised tracks by much when we come in. Satisfied the cop left only to come back a few hours later to inform us that the railroad had reported us to homeland security for buzzing their train. That’s rich I thought, a pilot doesn’t have any such restrictions during takeoff and landing. I can’t wait to see how this plays out.
Here’s a shot of the Caravan over the raised train tracks on final. He’s usually closer.
