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Joe E
October 26, 2011 - 5:55 pm
A few things that I can add to this with personal experience. In 1978 just after receiving my private pilots license I decided to take a flight from the Wilmington, De airport to Williamsburg, VA. As I was flying at 9000 feet which was the altitude I needed to be able to glide over the Chesapeake Bay in the event of a engine failure I suddenly felt a sudden boom to the airplane and all my controls locked up. I was flying VFR but suddenly my autopilot was active and took total control of the airplane. I could not turn the yoke left or right, up or down, the altimeter was frozen and had fallen off its two spindles and the compass was spinning in circles. I had to use the rudders to turn and the power for altitude. Having the ocean on the left and the bay on the right and below. For some reason I never panicked but started doing 360 degree turns to lose altitude and spotted a runway between the bay and the ocean as I did my turns, I don’t remember the name but it is where all the wild horses are on the peninsula. I did land on that airstrip and as soon as I got within 50 feet above the ground the autopilot went off and my controls worked again. The mechanic at the airport could find nothing wrong with the plane and when I flew it back to Wilmington the FBO’s mechanic and the government inspector found nothing wrong either, they chalked it up to hitting an air pocket that jolted the plane. A few days later my former instructor called me up to tell me that he had traced my route and exactly where the incident occurred the military had put out a notam about weapons testing in the area and for pilots to be on notice. I believe by what happened to the compass that I was hit by some sort of energy burst that took over my controls or made them malfunction.
I listened to Professor Fetzer’s show regarding Wellstone and I believe the truck that was spotted was putting out a high power VOR signal 108.2 MHZ which led the plane off course, overpowering the actual VOR and also was jamming the tower at 122.7 MHz. If you add the second harmonic of the vor with the tower frequency you get 339.1 and many garage doors operate at 340 MHz, garage doors don’t have a very selective front end so it just needs to be close. If they got hit by what I got hit by then the controls were locked up and that is why the plane was seen in a slip (crab I think you called it) the pilot was trying to steer with the rudders. Unfortunately for them a twin is very hard to control in these situations and luckily I was in a single engine piper cherokee.
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