C172 sitting in Paddock near LTV

[alf jessup]

Coming home this evening driving the bus I seen what looked like a C172 sitting in a paddock between YLTV (Latrobe Valley) runway 21 and the freeway overpass

 

Cows seemed awfully happy to have the company as about 20 were milling around it

 

Gathering a possible engine problem put it there

 

Anyone got any info on it

 

Alf

 

 

[kaz3g]

It will have been stripped ready for a repaint by morning!

 

Kaz

 

 

[onetrack]

Yeah, you haven't been hit with anything like a giant rasp, until you've been licked by a cow!

 

They're also curious buggers, they want to check out anything new in their paddock.

 

I can recall a pipeline company welding up the lengths of gas pipe, ready to be buried, right alongside paddocks full of cows.

 

Naturally, the cows wanted to see what was going on, and they all gathered at the fenceline to watch the welders working!

 

Then the farmer found all these cows wandering around the paddock bumping into things! It was only about then, they all figured out the cows were suffering from welding flash!

 

From that point on, the pipeline crew had to put up big welding shields, so they didn't give the cows welders flash!

 

 

[onetrack]

Here's a bloke in NZ who picked a paddock full of cows for an unscheduled landing spot, and who also got his aircraft licked half to death!

 

Plane gets a bovine licking after emergency touchdown

 

 

[Oscar]

Cows are an even greater menace for gliders.... if you outland in a cow-infested paddock and only have enough tie-downs for the tail and one wing (normal), they have been known to walk on the wing that's grounded.

 

I once outlanded near(ish) to Tocumwal; had selected a nice field capable of aero-tow retrieve; as I went to turn final I realised there were about 40 cows sheltering in the shade under the trees at the side of the paddock I had not seen from the air. Cue slam brakes and flaps away and fly down ( at fence-height, but with a couple of knots in hand) to the next paddock, which had irrigation ditches at 45 degrees to the paddock orientation. Squeaked over the fence and popped it down, ending about 100 yards from the downwind fence..

 

The retrieve crew from Toc. was NOT pleased with my choice of field - having had to drive for several hours to get there, plus dismantle and return time meaning a very late supper.. until I pointed out the cows in the better field. Ingo Renner, the CFI at the time, was not pleased that I had outlanded at all, (Ingo had a private arrangement with the god of Lift but that coverage did not extend to me..) but was gruffly pleased that he had a fully unbent IS29D2 ready to be used next day.

 

 

[riverduk]

Reminds me of a question my instructor asked on a training flight whilst doing emergency out landing practice, " you have the choice of only 2 paddocks to land in, the first has a number of cows in it, the second has only 1, which one will you choose and why?" Just to add some more interest to this thread, your answers please.......... Keep in mind my instructor is Peter McLean at Yarrawonga, those who know him will know he has a keen sense of humour and also a good reason to ask the questions he does during training.

 

 

[RossK]

You land in the first paddock. The lone cow in the second paddock is probably a Bull.

 

 

[Oscar]

You land in the first paddock. The lone cow in the second paddock is probably a Bull.

ABSOLUTELY!

 

 

[riverduk]

Yep! and he is probably going to do far more damage to man and machine than a herd of cows licking them

 

 

[Oscar]

OH, yes... Cows are merely curious and somewhat clumsy, but all of a Bull's IQ swings between its hind legs. Sort of Like Donald Trump, but WAY heavier..,

 

 

[riverduk]

OH, yes... Cows are merely curious and somewhat clumsy, but all of a Bull's IQ swings between its hind legs. Sort of Like Donald Trump, but WAY heavier..,

Too TRUE!!! Thanks Oscar for the good laugh.