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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Private Plane crash in San Diego this morning. Audio included
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PleasureMoose
Legendary
My ex-girlfriends dad had a 1980 Piper Dakota that he flew all the time, aviation was a huge hobby of his. I flew with him to Talladega once and Gulf Shores a couple of times. I was absolutely terrified.. luckly I had benzos
Emma tenywa
Elite
Sudden loss of control
Long Cat V2.0
Legendary
0% chance you will ever find me on a plane that small or any helicopter. I might consider marine one if the right president invited me. Maybe.
BigBucnNole
Elite
I've flown private all my life. Been maybe 2 commercial flights in the past 5 years.
BigBucnNole
Elite
You also don't just fall out of the sky like that on the final approach, especially in a lear. He was on IFR from the recording and you do that in shitty/ cloudy weather. So either he switched out of IFR too early, he wasn't paying attention to the instruments, or he had redundant failures when he switched to VFR on landing.
A lot of crashes are unique to California because of their rando winds due to geography and weather.
A lot of crashes are unique to California because of their rando winds due to geography and weather.
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