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    Ugly Aircraft

    in Aviation Enthusiasts

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    Came out in a 40' container and was put together at Bankstown. Cruises at 100 MPH with 300 ponnies up front so to get it here and then around Auz and back home again it would not be a cheap exercise, but what a way to go.

     

    Cheers Scotty

     

     

    Ugly Aircraft

    in Aviation Enthusiasts

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    This Avid Private Explorer was passing through Taree today. Canadian couple touring through Auz

     

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    Emergency Maneuver Training

    in Governing Bodies

    Posted

    Scotty, Are you doing this with Phil Unicomb at YMND? He's probably the best in the business. And he knows how much it hurts if you can't extract yourself from an "unusual attitude".

    Don, I now have the book and DVD's from Rich Stowell as DJP suggested and as I work my way through these they have highlighted the need for this type of instruction to be undertaken with the right person and in the right type of plane. I have not decided who I will train with yet, but I have rejected a few who claim they can train me.

     

    Phil and Mr DJP are on my short list but I have not approach them yet.

     

    Cheers Scotty

     

     

    Crash At Gloucester

    in Aviation Enthusiasts

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    Thanks Scotty!. Some might be interested to know the make of the re-drive / gearbox. Any idea?

    Not sure Dex, but he did say it was oilchanged every 25 hours, just been done with no sign of trouble during service. Has not yet stripped to inspect but from what he could see after the acident all the plugs were in place so no loss of oil and he suspects a collapsed bearing. After accident prop was free.

    Cheers Scotty

     

     

    Crash At Gloucester

    in Aviation Enthusiasts

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    I was talking with the PIC yesterday. Here is what happened

     

    Left Gloucester to head to his home strip. At about 4 mile out and 3000ft the engine gave a hickupp and he thought he could smell rubber. Checked all gauges and all good. No smoke from plane. Checked outside for someone burning off. None. Engine operating as normal, temps and pressures all normal.

     

    Decision 1: Instead of continuing over tiger country to his home strip he decided to return to Gloucester. He reduced power and started a slow decent heading back to Gloucester. Engine, temps and pressures all operating as per normal but decided to return and land and check it out. Prop started to slip.

     

    Decision 2: find a paddock and put her down. Prop lost all drive and started to windmill. Then the prop stopped turning. engine still running

     

    He said the time from everything operating as normal to the prop starting to slip then windmilling and then totally stoped was a couple of seconds. He stated although he has practiced many engine out landings all these have been done at idle and was supprised at the extra drag and sink with the 4 blade prop not turning.

     

    Decision 3: To get down in a paddock he had to turn through about 140degrees to miss a house and then a dam. Turn done but speed lost. At about 30ft the plane started to mush. Running out of clear paddock. At about 20ft with little forward speed and running out of paddock stick fully back and he remembers thinking this is going to hurt. Plane pancakes in with liitle forward motion but straight. Although he doesn't remember, the emergency people told him he then turned everything off.

     

    He walked into the hanger yesterday. He has a sore back and a sore ankel and a couple of marks from the 4 point harness. The plane is a writeoff. He stated that the belts keepted him in place and he hit nothing. The seat and bulkheads under it absorbed the shock and he feels this reduced the injuries to his back. the floor and rudder peddles buckled and twisted his ankel. The chromemolly frame around the cockpit buckelled but held shape and did not fold in or break.

     

    It was the gearbox that let go and not the engine but more will be knowen when things are stripped to find the cause.

     

    Cheers Scotty

     

     

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