Braveheart

Hang on hang on ladies and gents when did you last do low level practice right next to a house. As was said I am glad he is okay but come on. I do a regular low level practice and a regular engine failure practice but never and I mean never near where folks might actually be.

I am in a similar situation after a significant injury to my right shoulder while with the army so my left arm has become my dominant arm and am unable to move my right shoulder at all. A guess my question like the original author I will be better off flying in the right seat. I have a modified medical clearance but wonder if you can modify a Cessna 172 to put all the controls in reach of the pilot in the right seat. If I can no longer fly because of this Damn injury I will be completely heartbroken. Any thoughts.

Further to that with the forward momentum and the all up weight of the plane the blade, if one was down, would likely at least bend but probably would shear off at the blade root. I would definitely shut em down if it was a rental and certainly if it was mine.

Na sorry on this one roller ball all my training has been to shut down engines if you are going in wheels up.

Cost of a prop is nothing to the safety of the passengers and saving the engine is a bonus well one.

Genuinely surprised this happened. I get that the cadet was training to be a first officer and that this was their first real world flight be come on. I agree with one of the other comments surely the climb angle is absolutely hammered into them in the class room and the simulator. To smack the tail on the ground on take off I think means you are not, as someone else said, monitoring your instruments with the nose up you can't see the horizon so surely you must use the a.h. Anyway we have 20/20 vision I am just saying I am really surprised.