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I Am UNSAFE Checklist—Lessons Learned on a Fateful Night

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This was a standard approachmake it into DPA with an 800+ ceiling and the Tower would carry you to the pattern into 06C, about six miles to the northeast, solidly under the ORD Class B airspace. My plan was to make it into DPA with an 800+ ceiling and the Tower would carry me to the pattern into 06C, about six miles to the northeast.

Ceiling

Ceiling Weather AGL Approach

Where There’s Smoke…

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I checked the weather by phone and was assured it would be great CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) with 2-3-knot winds from 090 degrees. With nothing to lose, at a little over 1,000 feet agl, I started a turn to the left, looking for a place to land. I was to be the first to fly it since the checkup.

Runway

Runway Threshold Approach AGL

I Am UNSAFE Checklist—Lessons Learned on a Fateful Night

Where There’s Smoke…

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