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November 16, 2013

This pilot has a complaint

Due to a broken propellor Brian Nicholson landed his small plane on Route 43 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Now he's complaining that the Pennsylvania Turnpike is billing him only $3,000 for the trouble. They calculated $9.50/hour for every state employee that was present and assisting. This comes on top of a $1,000 towing charge. Mr. Nicholson said he had a spare propellor, but the Turnpike employees would not let him use the highway as a runway so he could take off again! What a nanny state! He said he could have been out of their way in only 15 minutes.

My question is how does Pennsylvania get highway workers for only $9.50 per hour? Also, I'm betting Mr. Nicholson didn't check into the fee for using a state highway as a runway for takeoff without giving 24 hours notice, which should be well more than $3,000.

Registration information on that plane. A little bit of history of the plane.

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