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Old 07-01-2020, 11:08 AM
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Was there some damage done?
Not sure if you're joking!

Can't say if that 172 was a write off, but it was definitely very badly hurt!
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Old 07-01-2020, 11:08 AM
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Man, these landings.

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Old 07-01-2020, 11:11 AM
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Not sure if you're joking!

Can't say if that 172 was a write off, but it was definitely very badly hurt!
I was serious but only because I could not see if he hit anything. I think he did but my guess is just going off into a dirt field will cause some major issues.
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Old 07-01-2020, 11:12 AM
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He wasn't really even on an "approach" - his airspeed is 90+. You can see he actually pushes the yoke forward to descend, instead of throttling/trimming the airplane onto a nice stabilized glideslope.
I didn't think it was quite that high. Looks like about 80K early in the video which is still way too fast. Crossing the threshold, it looks like it's about 70K, so he's getting closer. Definitely a go-around... he should have done that by a couple hundred feet.
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Old 07-01-2020, 11:16 AM
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The plane appears to be sitting up on its prop near the end before the tail slams back down. So, I imagine he trashed the prop and that will damage the engine. Not a good day for touch and gos...
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Old 10-08-2020, 03:08 PM
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Came across another great one on the tube:

Tough to watch, but be assured, dude was ok!



Gotta love that throttle-up!
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I love this one. A P-51 intermittent power loss at Duxford Air Show.

SHORT VERSION


LONG VERSION WITH POSITIVE ANALYSIS


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Old 10-08-2020, 06:23 PM
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Came across another great one on the tube:

Tough to watch, but be assured, dude was ok!

Gotta love that throttle-up!
That's gotta be one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen. He's out of position when he goes full throttle, doesn't reduce power as he drives on the grass, pulls full-aft on the yoke way before he's ready to fly and then tries to "drive" the plane to the right with the yoke as if it's a car! Wow... I wonder how much experience he had... before the FAA got hold of him. That's painful.

Correction... that appears to be in Canada. So, the TCCA would have had a chat with him.
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Old 10-08-2020, 06:39 PM
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I love this one. A P-51 intermittent power loss at Duxford Air Show.
Bob, it looks like you wanted to post this video, but your YT video got mixed up with an AGF URL. So, the links didn't work.

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Old 10-08-2020, 07:40 PM
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Bob, it looks like you wanted to post this video, but your YT video got mixed up with an AGF URL. So, the links didn't work.
Thanks! Fixed it.

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Old 10-08-2020, 09:16 PM
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Been reading this and remembered when I went for my IFR test.

As they say...it was a dark and stormy night, not then, but coming fast. Took my oral with the FAA examiner and he seemed satisfied so said lets go fly.

As I did the preflight, the clouds were coming in and the wind rising as a storm was forecast for that evening, and I told him that maybe we should postpone the test. He said, this is what you trained for so lets go. That would be the second, and last time, as PIC that I deferred to a more experienced and higher hour pilot in spite of my gut feeling.

We flew to the nearest city with a controlled airport, did the required approaches and holding patterns under the hood with touch and go's and headed home.

We returned to an uncontrolled airport with cloud cover at 8-900 feet and minimums about 500 so I did a 180 and he said what are you doing? Told him I was going back to the controlled airport to land. He said I've got it.

He proceeded to fly through clouds and mist at about 4-500 ft AGL and scared the living daylights out of me. But darn if he didn't come out on the runway heading about 300 feet above the ground and sit her down safely.

He'd been flying out of this airport for more then 40 years and knew every ant and mole hill around but he would have still been busted if I called the FAA. It gives me a bad feeling when people see things as black and white and ignore the grey, thinking they know why something was done without knowing the real circumstances. I'm not stupid and know the risks he took to land, but based on his experience, would probably put my life in his hands again.

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Old 10-09-2020, 02:17 AM
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That's a true story? Not only should he not be a designated examiner, he shouldn't even be flying. Lots of people get killed doing stunts like that.
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Old 10-09-2020, 05:12 AM
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Most pilots have seen, or even done things, that would probably ground them for a while, if exposed to the light of day.

When I started, an old pilot told me, you're given two bags when you start. A partially filled bag of luck, and an empty bag of experience. If you're careful and good enough, you fill the experience bag before you empty the other.

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Old 10-09-2020, 05:18 AM
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That's true, John. And those types of things killed some of the pilots I've known.
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Old 10-09-2020, 08:41 AM
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I love this one. A P-51 intermittent power loss at Duxford Air Show.

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I've watched that one multiple times.

That pilot kept his cool, made good decisions throughout, and FLEW THE AIRPLANE the entire way. Very well done.
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