rankamateur

On 18/04/2025 at 3:18 AM, Underwood said:

I've only 1 single hour of tuition in an R22, but was told by the instructor that you have literally a second or so to drop the collective on an engine out in the R22, the rotor inertia being so low.

Apparently the R44 is a little more forgiving

Coincidently I was watching an R44 doing practice autorotations today at Berrow and it all looked quite relaxed, but of course thats no indication of what was going on in the cockpit

A local R22 owner pilot told me you have 0.3 seconds to react to power failure. Different instructor?

Channel Nine News is reporting that he and several other planes we doing aerobics at the time. I hope now lycra was stretched in this incident. No Cessna was mentioned though.

5 minutes ago, rankamateur said:

Looks a lot like a Savannah XL.

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

What breed of AC is that

Looks a lot like a Savannah XL.

1 hour ago, turboplanner said:

Numbers under the wing.

I was thinking of Wayne Fisher with the VH under the wing. It did stuff we are discouraged from doing under RAA. Numbers were a bit hard to read under muddy water. Little more obvious in the later posted photo.

On 13/01/2025 at 2:13 PM, turboplanner said:

That's pretty accurate!

Could be GA.

On 08/01/2025 at 1:15 AM, onetrack said:

Check out the best part - between 4:40 and 5:30

He walked away from it. Helmets will be compulsory before you know it.

7 hours ago, Blueadventures said:

Years ago when I assisted taking the wings off a Savannah Bingo that hit treetops on take-off and crashed had heaps of plastic 2 litre milk bottles (empty of course) in the wings in case of a water ditching.

The Savannah ditching at Conway Beach had the problem that the doors would not open until the cabin nearly filled with water to equalise the water pressure. The plastic bottles would have been much more use than deflated air matresses, the blowing time had nearly elapsed by the time they got out of the cabin.

1 hour ago, kiwiaviator said:

Sorry. I should cite my sources 🙂 BTW 90% is an approximation for the initial survivability.

 

Schick VC, Boyd DD, Hippler C, Hinkelbein J. Survival After Ditching in Motorized Aircraft, 1989-2022. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2024 May 1;95(5):254-258. doi: 10.3357/AMHP.6332.2024. PMID: 38715275.

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38715275/

 

 

 

 

 

Nicely played! Troll proof.

A lot of repetition in these AI generated clickbait stories both in the photos and in the dialogue 

https://www.regosearch.com/aircraft/au/GUM on the news footage. No effort to conceal the rego.

9 hours ago, Marty_d said:

 

Looks like polished bare aluminium which is unusual for these slab sided planes.  Wonder if it was test flying before painting?

No way anyone would spend all that time polishing just to make the paint hard to keep on. I think he meant it when he polished it!

Also reported that someone from the plane company came out in a boat and got the passengers into life jackets. Good job they landed nearby.

11 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The speed will be projected speed along track NOT airspeed which we are used to seeing. A near vertical dive would register low as you don't progress along the surface much.  Nev

So 313 knots projected on the flight radar track may have been two and a half times that given the sudden altitude loss that is accompanied?  That being the case, why would you fly on for your destination rather than divert to Roma or return to Toowoomba?

19 hours ago, facthunter said:

Strong possibility. Any plane subject to severe overload or a hard landing has to have inspections of relevant parts of the structure. or get a permit to fly (No pax) to a place where it can be done. You'd have to be very lucky to get one for that  AIRCRAFT in those circumstances Limping might not be the best word as it flew normal speed and levels till something happened.   Nev

The something happened north of Dulacca much nearer to Toowoomba than to Mount Isa, which may have been a better place to limp to. While they reacted to the something, they maintained near perfect track while losing a whole heap of altitude and airspeed rising over 300 knots.

5 hours ago, facthunter said:

It looks as though it's had an "UPSET" earlier in the Fight that exceeded a lot of limits and resulted in total failure later (as well it would).   Nev

Its logged speed was over 260knots but it didn't seem to exceed 223 in the later part of its final flight. Are you suggesting that it was limping to its destination?

Given that it was doing 223 knots at 28050 ft in a straight line then suddenly decelerated less than 100 knots while losing 4000 feet doesn't seem like normal fire monitoring activity. It had a return flight to Townsville logged for later that afternoon. 

This shows VH-ATF as BD 275 so that could be where the confusion came from.

12 minutes ago, onetrack said:

I believe there has been an error in media ID, and the aircraft was not operating as Birddog 275, but as Birddog 370. It appears to be VH-HPY.

 

370 appears to be VH-ATF though!

This was one of six 737 in their fleet so if the premium was more than 17 percent they would still be in front.

https://www.mackayandwhitsundaylife.com/article/i-thought-we-were-going-to-drown-plane-crash-survivor-shares-story

This article shows a photo of the wreckage. Would be interesting to know it the under carriage inverted during the ditching or the recovery. I could also have impacted the ability to open the doors inverted like that.

On 02/02/2022 at 8:34 AM, Old Koreelah said:

I prefer elastic-side boots so I can slip my feet out of them if caught in a crash.

I find my old favourites are ok but anything half decent squeeze my feet and make them go to sleep about an hour into a long flight.

Incident involving a plane and a train on a road. NTSB will have to draw on all the areas of their expertise for this investigation.

How to convert to bus bar?

I saw about 8 cropdusters working between Boomi and Boggabilla yesterday. It was quite remarkable that half the country was underwater and the rest was highly developed irrigation diverting flood water, business as usual. Two working at 90 degrees to each other, when their runs coincided, turned into the same space. Must have been uncomfortable even for the pros!