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Great to see that the Airshow continued after this :)

Shocker... what else can I say?

Thanks All again Glad the J160 is Flying again :)

No prob, Thanks for the kind words all :)

Much worse.

I am posting here to let you all learn from my mistake I landed a J160 on sunday too hard and damaged the nose gear. The cause..... I was distracted on landing by a breaker going off which caused the EFIS to flash off then switch back on, this allowed me to inadvertantly allow the aircraft to reach an unacceptable sink rate, when I looked up, I saw way to much of the ground out the front for my liking, the resopnse to this was to pull back, and apply full throttle, allowing the Attitude of the aircraft to be resored, and reducing the sink rate. Unfortunatly the sinkrate was still high enough that the nose gear was bent, and the Aircraft is now being repaired. There was no need for any instraments to land from 30ft above the runway, even if the thing was on fire (it wasn't), there is nothing that can be done that is more important than landing the plane. My flying record was perfect, I have been an Aircraft engineer since 1994, and flying since 1991 yet still I suffered from what could have been Fatal Stupidity. The lesson Above all else, no mater the distractions, LAND THE DAMN PLANE.

Thanks :)

Thanks Ian for the reply, I am sad to hear that. Condolences to all that knew him, I wasn't so fortunate. Philip Rowse

Ha... Progress and Storch.... I am finally getting back into it, I pulled the plans out just to find they are water damaged.... the plane now has a shed, so it is out of the Aviation museum, and in my shed... I have two engines sitting in front of it, an E81, logical, but I am not impressed by it, and a 3.9l rover V8, much more impressive but too heavy... I am thinking a Jab 3300 would be the best choice, and a J2200 if the Mrs gets her way with the finance side... role on 760kg max weight, then the V8 will win... I wont post a picture, because then even I will have to admit that I am slack and not doing enough on the plane.... as soon as there is some progress I will post some pics, until then, this is what it should look like, one day :) Phil and Decca, feel free to come see it any time, just mention me at inbound, and pass your phone number via Manny.[ATTACH]13168.vB[/ATTACH]

I Have a Storch that I started building in 2007, the frame is built but that is all, I have the last set of plans that Nestor sold, I would like to finish it one day..... but if a better offer came along...... Philip at proficnc dot com Thanks

Hi All Just joined, I fly at Inbound Aviation at Ballarat airport, Building a storch (VERY SLOWLY) See you all! Happy Flying