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ejessee

Joined: 18 Apr 2009
Posts: 60
Location: Raleigh, NC

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:48 am Post subject: a new type of tail-dragger

Greetings,

I am a student.  I have logged ~25 hours in my 701 and >15 in another plane.  I plan to take my sport pilot check-ride next week.  Last night, I was doing a simulated soft-field take-off.  I pulled the stick back too far, and when I went full throttle, the tail touched the runway.



I never left the ground and immediately pulled off the runway.  My instructor and I did a thorough inspection deemed the damage cosmetic.  No bolts touched the ground.  No deformation of the rudder structure or mounting holes.  The rudder only had a scratch on the bottom edge.  Other than that, there was a bent tail tie-down bracket which absorbed the brunt of the force.  I have already straightened this bracket with no problem..



Anyone else had this happen.  This was not my first soft-field simulation.  I am embarrassed.  



At any rate.  I just wanted to share.  Any new 701 pilots out there beware.  It happened fast.  Go easy on the stick back-pressure at take-off when simulating soft-fields on a hard runway.

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Ernest Jessee
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dougsnash

Joined: 14 Apr 2008
Posts: 281

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:21 am Post subject: a new type of tail-dragger

Ernest, don't feel bad, I've noticed grass sticking out of the rudder on the factory demonstrator on a couple of occasions at Oshkosh.  Some pilots go so far as to modify the tail tie down ring with a rollerblade wheel .



Doug MacDonald

CH-701 Scratch Builder 

NW Ontario, Canada



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 posted by: "ejessee" <eejessee(at)us.ibm.com>

 

 Greetings,

 I am a student.  I have logged ~25 hours in my 701 and

 >15 in another plane.  I plan to take my sport pilot

 check-ride next week.  Last night, I was doing a

 simulated soft-field take-off.  I pulled the stick back

 too far, and when I went full throttle, the tail touched the

 runway.

 

 I never left the ground and immediately pulled off the

 runway.  My instructor and I did a thorough inspection

 deemed the damage cosmetic.  No bolts touched the

 ground.  No deformation of the rudder structure or

 mounting holes.  The rudder only had a scratch on the

 bottom edge.  Other than that, there was a bent tail

 tie-down bracket which absorbed the brunt of the

 force.  I have already straightened this bracket with

 no problem..

 

 Anyone else had this happen.  This was not my first

 soft-field simulation.  I am embarrassed.  

 

 At any rate.  I just wanted to share.  Any new

 701 pilots out there beware.  It happened fast. 

 Go easy on the stick back-pressure at take-off when

 simulating soft-fields on a hard runway.

 

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