{"id":36053,"date":"2016-09-02T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=36053"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:01:40","slug":"moody-a-10-pilots-grounded-after-impromptu-fly-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/moody-a-10-pilots-grounded-after-impromptu-fly-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody A-10 Pilots Grounded After Impromptu Fly-by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36054\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/a10flyby.jpg\" alt=\"a10flyby\" width=\"542\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/a10flyby.jpg 542w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/a10flyby-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/>Four A-10 pilots from the 23rd Wing at Moody AFB, Georgia, have been removed from flight status as the Air Force and FAA review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/article98900847.html\">an impromptu fly-by<\/a> they did of the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Charlotte-based air traffic controllers approved the pilots\u2019 request to fly over the Carolina Panthers\u2019 stadium after they departed from Charlotte Douglas International Airport around 11:30 a.m., the FAA has said. The pilots were participating in routine navigation training from Charlotte to Moody&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems some team members who were practicing in the stadium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jqpublicblog.com\/four-10c-pilots-grounded-low-flyby-charlotte\/\">thought it was kind of cool<\/a> &#8212; but it startled some local residents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOh yeah, we most certainly were caught off-guard. You kind of see everybody wondering what\u2019s going on,\u201d said Coach Ron Rivera, whose father had served in the Army.\u00a0 Rivera said the flyover was \u201cpretty awesome. I really appreciated that. I like the fact that they waved at us as they went over.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In general, aircraft are required to be at a minimum of 1,000 feet above the ground when in a &#8220;congested&#8221; or heavily populated area. Given the locale, that probably qualifies. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zakkx\/status\/770289465902465024\/video\/1\">Video<\/a> of the spontaneous event appears to show an A-10 below that altitude, though perception isn&#8217;t always accurate in video.<\/p>\n<p>That said, had they been at 1,001 feet, instead of a few feet lower, do you think the outcome would have been any different?<\/p>\n<p>Fly fun, boys, but in a world in which everyone has a camera and that video will be all over the world in minutes, don&#8217;t fly stupid.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/pilots-off-flight-duty-as-air-force-investigates-low-altitude-pass-over-charlotte-1.426510\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four A-10 pilots from the 23rd Wing at Moody AFB, Georgia, have been removed from flight status as the Air Force and FAA review an impromptu fly-by they did of the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[332,134,5745,5285,221,2,502,5746,5744],"class_list":["post-36053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-air-force","tag-charlotte","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-flyby","tag-military","tag-moody-afb","tag-ron-rivera","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}