REFLECTOR: Interesting Reminder

[Rich Ervin]

That's what it appeared at first, but I don't think he was trying to salvage the landing. 

I think he made the mistake of putting down the gear during a climbout - a condition that you ordinarily would not encounter - and stalled his canard when the plane slowed down. The only reason he landed flat is that he regained control of the canard during the nose-dive and pulled it partially out of the dive.

I believe that he was attempting a proper go-around. The fatal error, which could happen to anyone under different circumstances, is lowering his gear (and his brake?!) at a low airspeed. He should have completed his climbout and leveled off before modifying his configuration.

From: velocity_pilot at verizon.net
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:36:48 -0500
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Interesting Reminder

I think that he started to go around when he noticed (or was told) that his gear was still up- then decided that he could get it down fast enough to go ahead and land on the remaining runway, but didn’t keep an eye on his airspeed during his short but steep climb, and the airspeed bled off to the point that the aircraft would no longer fly-  that had happened in a non canard, the stall induced crash would have kidded him for sure. Funny thing is that if he had just kept on landing , he would just have come to rest on the nose pad with little or no damage at all….. From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Rich Ervin
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:10 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Interesting Reminder I don't understand what this guy was attempting to do. I guess he panicked when he realized his gear was up, tried to climb too quickly, and stalled??Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:15:50 +0200
From: wimhuisman at gmail.com
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: REFLECTOR: Interesting Reminder

Just to keep people on the ball, Flying your plane first!!!! Also when you did lower your gear!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNaMlG_Bbxo
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