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    Jabiru J160
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  1. Sad to read that report and see his photos. It puts a face and a family to the tragedy. Also RAAus sent out an email about it confirming it was a Jabiru SK. I was told the two Jabiru’s could not use the runway that morning, because it rained heavily that night and it was unusable. Traffic on the highway was stopped and they used the road as a makeshift runway. So the actual crash site will be north of the road and the roadhouse.
  2. Keep in mind the J160 took off fine, same hp and similar weight. the difference was that he kept flying into the wind to gain altitude before turning crosswind. The SK turned early at low altitude, basically a tailwind (15-20kts) because the wind came from ESE. I keep wondering if those mechanical repairs was done correctly or if something was overlooked, not sure if we’ll know without a proper investigation, and I guess we’re not going to get one?
  3. I have heard the almost full story now about this incident. I dont want to reveal too much at this stage out of respect for the people involved and also the police investigation. let me share this: The pilot in the SK was attempting to fly to Queensland in a very short time, delivering the plane to its new owner. He made a successful emergency landing at Caiguna because of the prop delaminating as was previously reported here. The other issues was caused by the vibration due to prop. The pilot in the J160 took another prop and spare parts and the SK got repaired. As the news article stated the accident happened the next day when attempting to take off. The SK struggled to gain altitude and went down on either croswind or downwind. Apparently he turned croswind very soon and at low altitude. My thinking is maybe he wanted to turn around and land it again, I don’t think we will know the answer to this. I don’t know why the plane couldn’t keep altitude. Still very sad. Someone’s friend and loved one is gone. My take away from this is to never have a deadline to be anywhere at any particular time when flying these small envelope unltralights. Recreational flying is supposed to be fun, dont do it if it is not fun, and dont have a time frame that is set in stone. I’d rather be one week late than being stressed out and loose my life trying to make it on time. Make safe decisions everone, it is not worth risking it, ever.
  4. It must be the SK then. It was definitely a home built. I know whom it belonged to, it had two owners since being completed probably 6 years ago.
  5. Found this forum searching for information about this incident, thanks for sharing your knowledge. The plane in the incident was sold on gumtree not too long ago, I think it is a SK, not a UL, probably similar to a UL,I’m not sure. What I do know is that it had a very small tail fin and rudder, much smaller than the J120, and needed a lot of rudder input controlling it at slower speeds, during landing especially. It could be a handful for a pilot unfamiliar with this plane. It was a 20kt croswind at Caiguna airstrip, the J120 with bigger rudder can handle 12kts safely according to the operating manual, not sure about the SK. It had a Jabiru 2200 engine. To my knowledge the airframe and engine had less than 100hours total, it was not used much during it’s life, a few hours every year. It was only a cheap aircraft, 20K or so, can’t expect it not to be ‘rough’ I guess. at this stage we dont know if the incident happened at the runway or not?
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