Teckair

Richard, How many do you want to know about?...........Seriously though,I`ve walked away from everyone because I always had somewhere to land and my complete focus has always been on landing safely.I`ve been advocating, flying within gliding distance of a suitable landing area, for more than thirty years,yet to some pilots, this doesn`t seem to be a priority.

 

No matter how well you Aviate, Navigate and communicate, if there`s nowhere to land safely,chances are you won`t and someone else will be picking up the pieces.

 

Frank.

Any body else had an efoto? I have and the last thing that came to mind was talking on the radio. You have to fly the plane and seconds are all you have to try to survive.

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Motor glider?

I wonder if these idiots realize when you go negative like that it doesn't just effect the passenger with the seat belt undone but the fuel in the tank and float chamber and the oil in the sump. All of which rely on a pick up at a low position and all are critical to the continued operation of the engine. And now someone is dead well done you wankers, hopefully CASA will act and appropriately.

It looks very much like one I flew way back when......Is it a single surface wing?

Here's an old picture taken at Mangalore 1984 by Australian Aviation Magazine photographer Rob Fox.Anyone know the plane or builder?

 

Hint - there were six of them built, the first didn't have a T tail, the one in the photo is the second one, the rest of them were a bit larger. Later there was a side-by-side twin-engined two seat version.

 

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I lost track of it for a while but I reckoned it would still be flying...Goodonya..

On the local TV news 1770 flights are back in operation.

If you were low wouldn't you be contravening the rules?Possibly if you were flying at 500' above GL in the normal circuit area you could be in trouble, but who would you blame for that?

I still find it hard to comprehend that an engine failure caused the crash, unless the approach was way too low..

In the local paper they are saying the pilot was a hero because 'He crashed plane on beach so no one would drown' for me that leaves more questions than answers. Also they are saying it happened on Middle Island is that aeroplane beach? I have landed on aeroplane beach it was a excellent landing area hence the name but I am pretty sure it was not on a Island.

If he wasn't the instructor, what was he? Nev

If that guy was an instructor then he should not have been, unless something went wrong that we don't know about that accident should never have happened.

It looked like they decided to go around and did nothing about the affect of sudden full power has on a slowed down aircraft ie the swing to the left.

The bounce did not look that bad to me I thought what was needed was some power and set up for another flare, instructors do this all the time that guy did not appear to be an instructor.

I own and fly drones but I would never do what that bloke did, a drone has the ability to fall like a brick and kill someone. If people start doing stuff like that it will end very badly.

And here in lies the reason I stop posting here.

Some how I just can't see anyone spoiling one of those things with a nose wheel.

Could somebody PM me a contact ph no or email address for Chris Siemers please?

Regards Richard.

I think the plane was spinning but you can't be sure.

how do you know?

maybe it had fuel in its tanks but the tanks didn't rupture.

Yes.

according to the TV program, NTSB says it took on 5 hrs fuel, and had flown for 3.

Sad but true it probably ran out of fuel then stalled out of balance causing the spin.

I wonder how too high on approach ends up as stall and spin.

How stable is the Cirrus in slow flight?