Have you dropped anything other than a message out of the chute of a Cessna 150 Patroller?

Question

I didn't have anything particular in mind.

Not really sure where the tube is at, I though perhaps someone had made use of it when "natured called".

Answer 1

Many years ago I helped a friend by flying his Patroller on pipeline patrol in South Texas. Two weeks of eight hours per day, forty hours per week. (I was one tired puppy at the end of THAT little favor!) I was a litterbug with the wrappers on the contents of my brown bag. Shame on me.

Answer 2

I can't say I've ever seen a 150 Patroller.

The 150 has a useful load of about the average, young pilot, his flight bag, a handheld transceiver, and a sack lunch with full fuel. It's hard to imagine the 150 carrying anything strategically worth dropping out of a 150.

I think most people drop flour bombs by throwing them out the window at the wing cantilever. Someone said something about a steep turn being involved, but I wasn't listening.

All I ever dropped was as many sets of chocks as I could carry. The brief explanation of that was that the company I was working for was so obsessed with avoiding lawsuits that they took chocking anything with wheels to heart and ordered pallets of chocks large enough to prevent a 737 from powering out of them. I took it on myself, knowing what those cost, to make it an obviously money losing proposition for the company.

A 40# set of chocks dropped from 1,500 AGL makes an impressive splash when it lands in a lake. You just have to be careful not to take out some poor fisherman, those guys never seem to have anchor lights for some reason.

Best of luck, and please don't, for any reason, tell me why you asked this.
JT

Answer 3

Did you hear the one about the guy doing his first ash scattering? Took the lid off and tried to pour it out the open window... the open window what all that air was howling through. He had to land at another field and clean up before he could return the urn.

Nothing to do with the question, and probably not true, but funny to me.

Answer 4

MM, no, never flown in a patroller, but have helped scatter some ashes of a friends loved one in a "tramahawk" The faa does not forbid dropping of objects as long as it poses no danger to persons or property.(§ 91.15 )
The local govt' might have a problem if you were to litter...but its hard to see tail numbers unless you are LOOOOOW
What did you have in mind dropping???