Guest ozzie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Had a huge weekend planned at Elderslie. Lots of jumpers, plenty of whuffos lined up to do their tandem jumps. The first load is geared up and ready to go as the Caravan arrived from Wollongong. It all turned sour aswe watched it slide off the runway into a ditch and shoved the nose gear into a 2ft dia pipe and snapped it off then beat the prop to death. Almost cleaned up the fuel truck too. That has been moved in this photo. I'll take a few close ups tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teckair Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Ooops! SNAFU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Expensive little excursion. Glad it wasn't me flying it.. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 yep, expensive, but the same aircraft had a similar incident just the weekend prior at warnervale, ran off the end of runway, but fortunately didnt hit anything, and he managed to turn it around and get back onto the sealed surface. An empty Cessna Caravan with reversible prop should never run off the end of a 1000mtr long runway!! unless of course you try to land after floating half the runway distance, and refuse to go-around. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rankamateur Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Do they all have reversible props or only the seaplanes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Yes fully reversible. I did ask why he did not use a bit more of it as there was very little prop noise or slowing of the aircraft and the pilot said he avoided using reverse due to the noise abatement we had in place. There was also signs of brake fade. May also have been steering problems due to deflated nose wheel. But having watched all of the landing no doubt more use earlier of reverse would have prevented this. Just let the aircraft rollout to long before trying to stop it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Like a rat up a drain pipe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greybeard Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I'm guessing the 'no claim' bonus is feeling a tad shakey at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 There was only a couple of hundred left to run on the engine so not so much coming from the insurance. Core exchange will be shot to hell. Prop was near new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 When you wait all week for the weekend to come ..an this happens my god the pilot would have to run fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunder Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Bit of bad luck with the drain.....a few meters either side and the out come might have been better.... Reminds me of an incident where a model jet had hung up gear so decided to belly it in on the grass. On any other day it would have been fine but as they were pylon racing earlier in the day whoever removed the metal poles left them in a "low" in the grass. The jet skidded in fine and then disappeared into the low point. Suddenly there was a bang and bits and pieces of jet flying through the air...... The owner/pilot was not happy to say the least........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rankamateur Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 You can bet if you are going to hit a drain it will be in a "low" spot too, unless it was designed by a council engineer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 couple of meters to the right would have completed the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetjr Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Truck isnt there in later pictures...... Looks to have been there for at least a few lawn mowings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamel Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I bet someones sphincter was working overtime!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rankamateur Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I bet someones sphincter was working overtime!!!! "Clench those Buttocks!" "It's going to be a bumpy ride!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 The fuel truck stays there. The aircraft taxis in and turns around lines up with the truck for refuel. If it doesn't need fuel it turns around and stays on centreline, loads and goes. We moved the tanker later as we had a C182 (extended wing)needing to get past and get to the avgas drums. Last thing we needed was a dinged wing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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