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Stuck with low power, what would you do?

 
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:04 am    Post subject: Stuck with low power, what would you do? Reply with quote

Just heard a tale by a friend test flying a RV. 1st flight, go up and
about, did a series of stalls, all OK.

Wants to do a flyby, gets on downwind with perhaps 16 or 1500 RPM, turns
base to final and pulls power, nothing, stuck right where he left it, goes
full power, nothing. At a few hundred feet.

Full flaps, slips and now half of the runway is used up, nothing but heavy
forest, still too hot. At that second he knew he should have killed engine
and play glider, but too late. He tried to milk altitude, and turn and
land downwind, stalled, dropped a wing. No injuries to himself, slid 3 to
400 feet, but bird was pretty hurt.

He has hours approaching 5 figures, has plenty of experience flying
homebuilts.

Put yourself in his position, it is not something I have ever practiced,
but will.

Ron Parigoris


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:57 am    Post subject: Stuck with low power, what would you do? Reply with quote

A similar thing happened to a student pilot in a Tiger Moth at
Cambridge a few years back. He had the presence of mind to crawl
round the circuit to a position he recognised from forced landing
training then kill both magnetos before pulling off a copybook
deadstick landing. It made a few experienced pilots wonder if they'd
have coped so well.

Willie harrison
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On 3 Nov 2006, at 18:03, <rparigor(at)suffolk.lib.ny.us>
<rparigor(at)suffolk.lib.ny.us> wrote:

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Just heard a tale by a friend test flying a RV. 1st flight, go up and
about, did a series of stalls, all OK.

Wants to do a flyby, gets on downwind with perhaps 16 or 1500 RPM,
turns
base to final and pulls power, nothing, stuck right where he left
it, goes
full power, nothing. At a few hundred feet.

Full flaps, slips and now half of the runway is used up, nothing
but heavy
forest, still too hot. At that second he knew he should have killed
engine
and play glider, but too late. He tried to milk altitude, and turn and
land downwind, stalled, dropped a wing. No injuries to himself,
slid 3 to
400 feet, but bird was pretty hurt.

He has hours approaching 5 figures, has plenty of experience flying
homebuilts.

Put yourself in his position, it is not something I have ever
practiced,
but will.

Ron Parigoris



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