Emergency landing on highway
04-23-2009, 03:53 PM
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There are a number of guys who have called these men stupid for posting the video. It may be hasty to post it, but any other judgment seems premature to me. Time will tell whether their own judgment was prudent or not. Either way, the plane has cameras, which I deduce, survived the incident. The feds will be looking for footage either way. These guys just committed to the high road+judgment in the court of public opinion.
04-23-2009, 04:48 PM
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What I am most impressed with is how the pilot was able to thread the airplane between the street lights and power lines, etc. Everyone has been mentioning how convenient it was to have an empty street to put it down on....but I am way more impressed with his aircraft control as he fed it through the gauntlet 20 feet above the street.
04-23-2009, 05:32 PM
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Speed
Clean
Check
Feather
Look
Lock
Airstart
Bailout
Shutdown
Mayday
From what I could see they basically applied the same thing we teach in the T-34.
Speed - Maintain glide speed
Clean - fixed gear (flaps?) - N/A
Check - checked the engine instruments
Feather - constant pitch prop - N/A
Look - look for suitable landing site and changed it as the restarts/failures extended their range
Lock - lock harness
Airstart- they attempted two
Bailout- no parachutes/too low - N/A
Shutdown - shut the engine down and focus on flying the crash/landing
Mayday - no time/ everyone will see this and call 911
Speaking from experience in teaching engine out profiles for a few years....you don't see the wires until it is too late. I found myself looking at obstacles/wires whenever I drove near where I flew on a regular basis. Better lucky than good...in this case they were both.
04-23-2009, 08:18 PM
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FlyBoyd -
You're assuming I ever knew them in the first place - - or did I expertly fake it?
Funny thing - sitting around the ready room just the other day with some T-34 checkouts going on we started talking about the start checklist and such for the T-34. Some of the newer RPs still remembered quite a bit and could recite most of it. I swear that I must only have enough brain matter for ONE aircraft because I brain dumped all of that stuff the week I selected! I could have sworn though that one of the biggest things about an engine out in the GA world was to select the fullest fuel tank or at least change tanks.
I'll be glad to recite my current EPs here but asking me for anything more is beyond my capability
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You're assuming I ever knew them in the first place - - or did I expertly fake it?
Funny thing - sitting around the ready room just the other day with some T-34 checkouts going on we started talking about the start checklist and such for the T-34. Some of the newer RPs still remembered quite a bit and could recite most of it. I swear that I must only have enough brain matter for ONE aircraft because I brain dumped all of that stuff the week I selected! I could have sworn though that one of the biggest things about an engine out in the GA world was to select the fullest fuel tank or at least change tanks.
I'll be glad to recite my current EPs here but asking me for anything more is beyond my capability
USMCFLYR
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