Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:10 am
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Yesterday, at a well known airfield in the south, I witnessed another classic example of this country’s decaying basic humanity, and because it was a Russian radial type, typical Aero-pikeyness.
After vacating the active runway I turned off, and started to taxy back to the parking area. In front of me was a Yak that had stopped taxying as there was a small microlight that was blocking the taxiway, with its wing tip seemingly stuck in the hedge. The owner of the microlight wasn’t a spring chicken, and was struggling to move the machine so that the Yak could get past, but with little success.
He looked flustered, and it was clear he wasn’t going to succeed on his own.
After another minute of waiting, the Yak pilot decided to power up, turn sharp left into the long grass, and go past the stricken microlight pilot, leaving him to sort it out for himself.
After he’d left, I decided to pull over, shut down, and help him extricate his wing from the hedge that took a minute or two of gently tugging and manoeuvring. He explained that this had happened when he’d given way to another aircraft on the taxy way.
A polite exchange of words took place and on we went about our days. It took about four minutes.
Honestly, why do Yak flyers seem to think they’re above everyone else? Why couldn’t they help? They were later seen strutting about with half unzipped grow-bags at the fuel pumps, chatting away casually to a bystander after they’d fuelled, and while others were waiting to fuel up.
C’mon guys, have some basic manners will you?
After vacating the active runway I turned off, and started to taxy back to the parking area. In front of me was a Yak that had stopped taxying as there was a small microlight that was blocking the taxiway, with its wing tip seemingly stuck in the hedge. The owner of the microlight wasn’t a spring chicken, and was struggling to move the machine so that the Yak could get past, but with little success.
He looked flustered, and it was clear he wasn’t going to succeed on his own.
After another minute of waiting, the Yak pilot decided to power up, turn sharp left into the long grass, and go past the stricken microlight pilot, leaving him to sort it out for himself.
After he’d left, I decided to pull over, shut down, and help him extricate his wing from the hedge that took a minute or two of gently tugging and manoeuvring. He explained that this had happened when he’d given way to another aircraft on the taxy way.
A polite exchange of words took place and on we went about our days. It took about four minutes.
Honestly, why do Yak flyers seem to think they’re above everyone else? Why couldn’t they help? They were later seen strutting about with half unzipped grow-bags at the fuel pumps, chatting away casually to a bystander after they’d fuelled, and while others were waiting to fuel up.
C’mon guys, have some basic manners will you?
Last edited by TheFarmer on Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:28 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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