REFLECTOR: Interesting Reminder

Kathy Cook gansehaut at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 17 14:14:15 CDT 2012


I see alot of talk, a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, but no solutions.  Whenever an approach or landing doesn't look right of feel right, the safest accesptable solution is to revert back to our basic training and do a go around.  This guy obviously tried to salvage a bad approach and was lucky to live through it.  Again, if it doesn't look RIGHT, go around.



From: John Abraham <john at velocityaircraft.com>
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org> 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Interesting Reminder


It looks like he was at idle on the engine and just tried to flare at 30 or 50 feet. The Velocity will come down like a pancake if you don't fly in to the runway. I would imagine an EZ will do the same. 

On Oct 16, 2012, at 11:29 PM, Rene Dugas <renedugas at gmail.com> wrote:


I can't say I know why he hit the ground.  Engine power came up and when he pushed it over his speed came up.  He either pulled the speed brake up then put it down or his speed was sufficient to push it up so he should have had lift and control so I'm perplexed.  Would love a explanation so I can learn what not to do.  He made a mistake then pulled up and delayed the power up but did get it done.  
>Thanks pre-explanation.
>Rene'
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>Sent from Rene's iPad. A pleasure.  Go Apple. 
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>On Oct 16, 2012, at 10:15 AM, wimjhuisman <wimhuisman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Just to keep people on the ball, Flying your plane first!!!! Also when you did lower your gear!!
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