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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: dan9125 on September 15, 2006, 04:41:30 PM

Title: Pilot has problem with his brain @ KBUF!
Post by: dan9125 on September 15, 2006, 04:41:30 PM
This guy must not know that taking off on the wrong runway can cause problems. Tower didnt seam to worried though. Caught this today 9/15/06 around 3:05pm @ KBUF.
Title: Re: Pilot has problem with his brain @ KBUF!
Post by: flaps on September 16, 2006, 12:10:39 PM

I definitely can't understand how pilots could take off from a wrong runway as we have to check the heading on which we are, and that is a part of the checklist anyway... really weird!

fortunately nothing bad happened!
Title: Re: Pilot has problem with his brain @ KBUF!
Post by: Neil on September 19, 2006, 06:19:51 PM
Wow. I thought that would at least warrant a phone call....
Title: Re: Pilot has problem with his brain @ KBUF!
Post by: BJ Tower on September 24, 2006, 11:07:51 AM
Only in America!
Title: Re: Pilot has problem with his brain @ KBUF!
Post by: KSYR-pjr on September 26, 2006, 05:56:23 PM
This could have been a real problem if inadvertently departing rwy 23 put him face to face with traffic arriving on 5.   Tower controllers will routinely do a waiting pilot a favor and permit a "no delay" departure ahead of an arriving aircraft.

Additionally, since he was departing from an intersection, there could have also been a problem with remaining runway length.  Hopefully he will never make that mistake again, for the sake of his passengers and the neighbors who live near the Buffalo Airport.

Title: Re: Pilot has problem with his brain @ KBUF!
Post by: dan9125 on September 26, 2006, 09:50:40 PM
The controller made it sound like it was no big deal and I think he said "thats ok" after the pilot admitted his error.....shocking!   
Title: Re: Pilot has problem with his brain @ KBUF!
Post by: ikediddy on September 26, 2006, 11:38:26 PM
"Additionally, since he was departing from an intersection, there could have also been a problem with remaining runway length. "

That's definitely an understatement.  Looking at KBUF's airport diagram (http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0609/00065AD.PDF), more than half of the runway is in the RWY 5 direction at E, so he had significantly less than half of the 8000' runway to use, and it made the 8kt wind a tailwind.

They were lucky.