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Hey, dad, can you give me a ride? Oh, you want to be a brief media sensation? Then yeah, a ride in your plane is cool, too.
Aaaaand scene. Robert Kadera maybe heard something similar from his son this weekend because Kadera decided the best way to get his 14-year-old kid to a tennis date was for them to hop in his 1949 Piper Clipper and fly there. He landed the little plane on a golf course at the Marriott Lincolnshire, at which point anxious local residents called the police. Landing your plane wherever you want? Not totally legal.
It's not clear what Kadera expected to happen. From the Trib:
"We're all pretty dumbfounded," Lincolnshire Police Chief Randy Melvin said Monday. "I don't have any idea what the guy was thinking. ..... He was going to park his plane across the street like nobody would notice."
The Trib reports Kadera's son was going to play tennis with a friend, but other media outlets are saying it was a tennis lesson. Perhaps it was both. And while we understand the urgency of training for the JV tennis team, is that really worth landing just 20 feet from a highway? Hint: no. No, it is not.
The FAA is investigating, and Kadera may be charged with trespassing. He should at least be charged with criminal idiocy and setting a bad example. But if you're way jealous of his antics, you can get your own 1949 Piper Clipper for around $22K. [Trib, Daily Herald, Sun-Times]
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Planes are the only like, vehicle you can buy that appreciate in value. Not a bad investment.
douchebag ... just a total douchebag with an pilot's license.
I'm not going to talk about rich "blank", male
privilege here as I don't want to jeapordise my March Commentator of the Month Award!
They should hall his A$S to jail, he could have run over one of the lowly paid field workers
I thought the guy was an idiot when I read the headline, don't think this was such a big deal. The guy had skis on the plane for landing gear, the course was snowed over (do they play winter golf up there?), and that plane weighs less than a car, let alone the maintenance trucks that run up and down golf courses.
But then again, it's always been my dream to have a pilot's license and my own plane, flying wherever and whenever I want.
i'd be outraged, but this is so crazy it's funny.
Smussy: Thursday night! We are at it again. Please come so I can again dazzle you with my outageous youthful colloquialisms.
Idiot or not. Funny or not. Rich, privileged, poor, starving. This is just bizarre, just incredibly bizarre.
Cool plane, dumb dude..
"he could have run over one of the lowly paid field workers"
The field workers on a snow-covered golf course in the winter?
This story cracks me up in a "whoa-man, what the HELL was he thinking?!" kind of way.
I nominate him for the first winner in a new monthly Chicagoist award: "The Jaggy."
"Chicagoland Jagg-off of the Month Award"
Another thought:
This story would have held a lot more awesomeness if the kid had parachuted onto the 9th Green or something.
liked that didn't you Tower ;-)
I'm a pilot and I just want to make sure everybody knows: Very, very, very few of us are as idiotic as this guy. They just make us look bad.
Interesting note: Had dude simply talked to the golf course people and received permission, it would've been entirely legal... It doesn't appear to me that there are any significant safety issues associated with landing there.
But regardless, this is one of those things that, for the rest of us, is entirely face palm-inducing. And rest assured, the pilot discussion forums are duly lighting this guy up.
And here I am thinking you were a Priest!
Gotcha!
Just to be clear, I'm a perpetual student pilot... been flying for several years, but haven't gotten my license yet.