rick-p

"Bill Morris came along much much later and yes he did ditch in the Whitsundays, (96/97???), he also did some jail time for beating up a house.

It panned out like the script from that famous movie 'From Russia With Love'!

Entrancing, just visulize that coming towards your screen, in slow motion mode, I think that a change of undies would be in order!

Gotta love a good Twin Otter and someone who knows how to pilot it well.

A more dramatic video of a snatch launch.

Excellent! Hope you don't mind my asking - whats with the bending over just after handing off the plane?

The Flight Gob Smacked! The landing they will have to work on as must be a little rough with that weight on his back, you could break something.

Good stuff!

Depends on the headwind. This aircraft would probably stall with full power on at 25 Knots. It doesn't take much wind to enable a take-off and land without ANY forward movement, which looks spectacular but doesn't prove much. If the donk quits you are not in a good position any time you have a high nose attitude and no height and little airspeed. I have been asked to do this sort of thing many times and I have had enough brains at the time to resist the show-off urge, so far and I think it gets easier, as time goes on.. Nev

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You've done it again McCain! Bloody great film clip.

Watched the video quite amazing actually. Those guys and the 2 kids were extremely lucky and I can't believe how calm cool and collected the pilot was.

Anyway a happy ending for the kids, the pilot and passenger which is what really counts.

Pretty hard to miss seeing a ferris wheel, I would imagine it would be visable down the runway prior to take-off...................................................Maj...

I can't help it but the mind boggles as to what would have happened if the BRS had deployed, it may have ended up the first ferris wheel in space!

my only observation is that he was pretty low for 200 mtrs out from the runway

ell this incident has alleviated my concerns about ferris wheels and fun rides at f

A really nice bit of film work. Only thing though that concerned me was the bull at the begining of the video it reminded me of a this kid I knew in first grade he also forever had his tongue up his nose.

Interesting Don.Im wondering though. How does one get themselves into the cockpit looks like alot of tubes and flying cables in the way ?

Nice one Winsor but you wouldn't get me in it. When it was flying it was jerking around and twitching so much it looked like it had Parkinsons disease.

Well to me he wasn't mucking around he certainly put on a good display, nice film clip Ian, thanks.

Rick-p

No more mogas for me. I have a supply of avgas now. It looks as if I overheated the piston, that is what our tech man says after I did my report to RAAus.Getting those circlips in is a bit of a hassle, same for the rings. One of the oil control centre rings seems to be oversize, but luckily I had a spare and it fitted.

Rick-p

More like having smoked the crack!

I just flew victor 1 yesterday, over curl curl as well but not to gawk at the sight but I usually take a friend on that flight purely because it's spectacular. I always make sure we have vests on since that's the last thing I want to be thinking about at the time.As for people saying they wouldn't do victor 1 because of the risk, I disagree. Flying is a risk and getting your head into gear being ready is a part of the training. I want to be ready in the mind but I don't want to fly thinking I'm going to die every time I go up, I want to enjoy my flying and being prepared for an emergency is a part of that, knowing when not to fly but the sound of this thread makes it sound like doing that sort of flying is looking for trouble. Don't know how to put it into words but flying ahead of the plane and enjoying the flight is much better than thinking that every flight you are going to die.

 

I hope I conveyed what I was thinking.

Lets learn something from these incidents but not treat them as a soap box of doom and gloom if you fly.

We drive cars everyday and we don't labour on all the accidents and deaths on the roads.

It's a fact of life that if you get out of bed in the morning there is a chance that you may have an accident by the end of the day.

Do what we do as safe as possible but enjoy it at the same time as life is too short too spend it worrying about if and when we are going to come unstuck.

Rick-p

My engine has about 560 hours , it had a top end rebuild from an l2 about 200 hours ago , has been serviced correctly every 25 hours ,run on av gas 100 percent ,75 hours ago a level 2 did a 100hour service including a compression test , in the space of one revolution the engine went from perfect to life treating it was unbelievable how quickly it happen

That is the way of life mate in one revolution we go from one thing to the next like my good friend who recently went in a flash of an eye from being fit and healthy to dead, his heart just stopped. Something broke because the manufacturer in his case just didn't get it right but there were no recalls for my mate. My point, never expect a warning that something is going to go wrong always expect the worsed and then you may just have an even chance of survival. A warning is a bonus!

I could go on but I may cop from Dex another "that's an unusual rant Rick".

I'm just trying to make a point!

Rick-p

My engine has about 560 hours , it had a top end rebuild from an l2 about 200 hours ago , has been serviced correctly every 25 hours ,run on av gas 100 percent ,75 hours ago a level 2 did a 100hour service including a compression test , in the space of one revolution the engine went from perfect to life treating it was unbelievable how quickly it happen

The question on everyones lips should be what am I going to do and how will I react when the engine does stop, not if the engine does stop because it's never "if" it's always "when" and then you will be prepared and have an even chance of survival.

It doesn't matter what engine you fly they are all engineered and everything and anything engineered can and will break, eventually.

Anyone who fly's around thinking that the type of engine they have is bullet proof and will never stop is only being a fool to themselves.

My two bob's worth!

Thanks again.

Regards,

Rick-p

J2200 solid lifter 4 cylinder

I'm just putting together some statistics on the most popular, let's say, aircraft engines used in recreational flying machines.

This also includes the cause of the failure.

Thanks again for your assistance it's much appreciated.

Regards,

Rick-p