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Pilot charged with violating order of protection, no-fly order

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 19:00 MJA Uncategorized 32

CBS6- A Schuylerville man accused of harassing and stalking a woman by flying his plane low over the village has been arrested for violating an order of protection.

He faces multiple charges, including resisting arrest and criminal contempt.

The order of protection was instated this past Tuesday and includes a no-fly order.

Michael Arnold is accused of stalking Cassandra Wilusz– by air and on ground.

Our report Thursday morning showed how Wilusz and other neighbors say Arnold has been flying at dangerously low altitudes. more here

32 Comments on Pilot charged with violating order of protection, no-fly order

  4. @SNS — That depends on whether there are any buildings in the flight path. There’s ALWAYS ground down there.

    I seem to recall a quotation from Jonathan Livingston Seagull (I didn’t read the book but did read a review which was enough) from an instructor bird to a student bird, “Flying through rock is an advanced technique that we will cover in a later lesson.”

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  5. This story is silly. Four years and he’s still doing it? Ridiculous.

    The woman and local police simply need to talk to an FAA inspector or investigator and find out what the FAA would accept as sufficient evidence of FAA regulation violations for them to pull his license. Dropping stuff from the air is a definite no-no. Flying below 500′ AGL (IIRC) over a “populated area” is also a definite no-no. In my opinion, an occupied house meets any rational definition of “populated area” LOL. If they pull his license and he keeps flying, then it’s no longer violation of regulations but violation of state/fed law. Then it most definitely IS a police matter.

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  6. ” Jonathan Livingston Seagull”
    Funny story. Sorta of. I had my, at the time, 8 year old daughter out with me fishing on our local lake. Lake Folsom.
    Early spring. Water like glass. We’re moving from the North Fork back to the South Fork at a high rate of speed. On the pad, 75 mph. And out of no where we encounter a suicidal Sky Carp. A seagull by any other name. MoFo did a head first dive three feet in front of us .001 seconds before we got there. I was amazed at the wing span draped across my bow. However my daughter freaked out and accused me of killing Jonathan Livingston Seagull. It got worse when I throttled back and the dead bird slipped off the bow floating dead in the water.

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  8. ” Jonathan Livingston Seagull” … gack! …. couldn’t stand that insipid piece of dreck.

    (read it when I was 18 & for once Roger Ebert was right … “[it was] so banal that it had to be sold to adults; kids would have seen through it.”)

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  9. My first Commanding Officer of my Navy fighter squadron lost his pilot’s wings for flying a Navy jet underneath the Deception Pass Bridge on Whidbey Island, Wash. and getting caught because of the jets tail identification number. He could still fly but he was relegated to being a back seat RIO (Radar Intercept Officer).

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  10. Hey Brad, do you remember the time Dave Winfield hit a gull when he was throwing a ball in from the outfield? All the bunnyhuggers flipped out, accusing him of doing it on purpose. He had a great arm, but come on..

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  11. Uncle Al

    Right after that, me a three other pals, with their own boats are pre fishing the Cali Delta. We’re running up the San Joaquin at a high rate of speed. Hot foot to the fiberglass. Suddenly we encounter a raft of Coots. Mud Hens. Surely they’ll get up. Nope. Still have few beaks stuck to my 26 pitch perfectly balanced four blade. It was pandemonium I tell yea.

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  13. Wild Bill

    I do. Like it was yesterday. I’ve personally watched birds die hard with a vengeance at a couple driving ranges. When you think about the odds, it’s amazing.

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  14. One of the fighter pilots in my Navy fighter squadron once had an inflight encounter with a flock of geese that flew into the jet’s intakes. Fortunately, he was able to bring the jet back safely, but it was a very bloody mess with goose feathers and bird guts splattered all over the intake and inside the jet engine. The jet engine mechanics in my squadron had to completely tear apart and rebuild that engine after that.

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  15. I’m not really proud of this, but when I was a kid I was walking down the train tracks through a swampy area and spied a duck just sitting in the water minding it’s own business. So being a young delinquent I picked up a piece of gravel from the railroad bed and winged it at the duck. The duck saw me throw it and took off from the water and flew smack into the rock. There was a big THUMP, sort of hollow sounding, and the duck fell back into the water. It just sat there for a minute and flew off. I think I just knocked the wind out of it. But talk about a million in one shot! That’ll never happen again.

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  18. Heh! My only in-flight bird experience was all the way at the other end of the spectrum: contact, but bird and pilot uninjured and aircraft undamaged.

    I was hang gliding along a ridge near McConnellsburg PA when a Red-shouldered Hawk flew up from behind and slight below me. Great BIG bird! He rose to my level and we flew along side by side for about 30 seconds when he moved in and tried to perch on my right forward flying wire. He touched it but couldn’t get a grip and dropped away.

    He made his way over to my flying buddy’s glider a couple of hundred feet away and I saw the hawk successfully land about half-way out on the left wing leading edge. That bird stayed there for about five minutes happy as a … lark? It then flew off and that was that. Until we got to the landing field and my buddy found the talon holes in his wing. (They weren’t serious and were easily patched.)

    And we all had a good time, including Mr. Red-shouldered.

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  21. Two words: Barrage Balloon

    Surplus weather balloon a bottle of helium, a five gallon bucket of concrete with an eye bolt sink into it and a reel of 3/16 braided wire rope and the problem becomes self correcting.

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  22. …my wife got her third bird last week, in a car. Actually she doesn’t hit them, they hit HER. Her first was a hawk that was fighting/mating another hawk and suddenly darted out in front of her truck at highway speeds; the second was a turkey vulture who took off from a carcass as she went by and launched directly into her driver’s side rear view mirror, breaking it; this third one was a crow that evidently miscalculated his climb rate around hood aerodynamics.

    Most people can’t hit birds with cars, but she keeps finding a way…

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  23. @SNS — Dang! Your wife was mightly lucky that the TV took out only the mirror. Those are really hefty birds! As hefty as a wild turkey, I imagine.

    I did have a pickup truck / turkey encounter in New Jersey back in the late 1960s. I was moving at about 60 mph when it came out of nowhere from the right side and came very close to making it all the way through the windshield. Little flakes of glass EVERYWHERE. It’s a damned good think I was wearing glasses and nothing got in my eyes so I was able to safely slow down and get off the road.

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  25. Uncle Al
    AT 10:34 PM
    “@SNS — Dang! Your wife was mightly lucky that the TV took out only the mirror. Those are really hefty birds! ”

    …yup. He landed, staggered for a minute, and flew off. She said she hoped he at least got a headache out of scaring her like that.

    …understand too that’s the FIFTH time she lost that mirror, and only ONE was her fault.

    1. Hit by truck with long trailer mirrors on tiny Tennessee backroad. Guy never atopped.

    2. Hit by teenagers in pink rental Jeep on tiny, crowded Gatlinburg street. Also never stopped.

    3. Hit a college short bus on tiny University Village street taking our baby home from a surgery. She claims the stopped bus was out too far, but cops didn’t see it that way.

    4. Hit by guy again with ridiculous trailer mirrors (and no trailer) on twisty farm hill in Southern OH where we live. Got THIS one on dash cam and cop agreed the other guy (who never stopped) was left of center, but no front plate so he also got away.

    And 5. Hit by turkey vilture.

    …seems she’s not meant to have a mirror. I have spares now, but I still wince any time I have to drive it and see a truck coming the other way on our bucolically sized spaghetti noodle streets. I figure its just a matter of time before I do…

    The hawk didn’t hit the mirror, I got to pick him out of the grille, and the bird hit her while she was driving my car, not her truck. So those don’t count as mirror attacks, but suggest that maybe it IS her, after all…

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  26. Brad
    AT 10:56 PM
    “SNS

    I swear to gosh, that woman of yours deserves a break.”

    …she just had one. From me. She took her ma to see fam in TN while I tended the animals and kept working in OH.

    That’s where the bird got her in my car.

    So I agree she needs a breather, just not sure how to get the universe to leave her alone…

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  27. I took a turkey in my windscreen going 55mph on 14 in MO. Glass everyfuckingwhere.

    One time I was on a Ducati and was passing by a vulture eating a deer… the vulture didn’t like my bike and 100 yards away rose into the air and puked on me. Steaming reeking puke. Quarts of it. I went back home to get a pistol to assassinate the sorry bastard.

    It took weeks to get the puke smell out of my leathers.

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  30. Phil had rode nothing but 4 valve Ducs and wanted to ride the Sport 1000. I said something to the point that the 2 valve Duc is a bit… uhh… different.

    Phil went over the ridge of some county bridge and the bike stood straight up. Tag gone. Front wheel waving. He somehow managed to not wreck.

    “What the hell?”

    “I pounded the throttle on the rise.”

    “You can’t do that on the 2 valve. That bike will stand up in an instant if you aren’t cognizant of throttle…”

    We went back and found the tag and the other half of the tail.

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  31. A few years ago, when I was going to work in the morning, I was wondering why one of our new Mercedes diesel vans was in the garage that morning. When I looked at the front windshield, I noticed that the whole front windshield was entirely shattered, it turns out that one of our other drivers had a turkey fly directly into the windshield out by 4 Lakes about 12 or so miles West of Spokane on I 90 the night before at dusk. He was going 70 mph and the turkey came out of nowhere and flew directly into the front of him. Fortunately, he wasn’t hurt and I’m not sure how he managed to get that van into town the last 15 miles or so. It was a total mess and could’ve been far worse and he was damned lucky that turkey didn’t hurt or kill him when it hit that windshield. I also had a collision with a moose that came out of nowhere about 10 miles N of Sandpoint, Idaho on US 95 on a totally pitch-black rainy night. Fortunately, the moose only ran into the right side of my van, if he had been in front of me, I could’ve been killed. The van was drivable but a big bloody mess along the right side of the van by the passenger door and I managed to get it back to Spokane to show my boss who is a Marine Corp veteran and has PTSD, the sight of it made him physically sick. Fortunately, insurance covered the damage but that was a close call.

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  32. When I was about seventeen I was working for AAFES. AAFES used to send a truck load of merchandise from Ft Lewis down to Vancouver Barracks every week. A guy dropped a pumpkin trough the windshield from an overpass and put him in the face putting the driver in the hospital.

    The pumpkin dropper was caught and wen he was interrogated he said he was simply fed up with trucks blocking the left lane traffic. He took the pumpkin up on the overpass and let the fist truck that came along that wasn’t in the right lane have it.

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