ggower_99(at)yahoo.com
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 Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject: Getting out of an overturned XL, Strong enough... |
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I have already made a comment about this some time ago... Hope is in the archives, If I didnt put the "do not..".
As short as possible:
Planes are designed to fly not to crash or roll over. First because is very important to fly it down, If you fly it down it will touch down (even in an emergency out of airport) at a slow speed (one good point of the Zentih Aircrafts)
that it will absobe the energy (G,s over yor body) and IF it rols over it will do it in "slow motion" so the rudder and/or fuselage will protect you.
In the remote case of a crash in an uncontroled manner, the inertia and speed will build up so fast (in any airplane, from ultralights up) that even if the unfortunate pilot is flying a winged Daytona stock car will the huge roll cage, his/her fragile body will not survive the impact G's...
So in case of emergency landing because an engine off: Keep calm, remember your classes, keep control of the airplane, fly the airplane down, fly the airplane down, fly the airplane down ALL THE WAY until it stops.
If you fail your aproach, dont be shy to aply power and try again, instead of unsuccesfuly trying to stop the over shooted airplane in the last 100 ft of strip before the front wheel hits the ditch at the end  I WILL roll over!
When ever you dont have a place to go flying, instead of just burning gas, go to a little airtrip (if your airport is big and lots of traffic) and practice dead stick landings to the numbers, this fun trainning, will pay in the very rare case you ever suffer a engine out landing...
One last thing, The ZAC airplanes are the more "landing friendly" airplanes in his class.
Saludos
Gary Gower
701 912S , building a 601 XL.
Flying from Chapala, Mexico.
Craig Payne <craig(at)craigandjean.com> wrote:[quote] --> Zenith-List message posted by: "Craig Payne"
I think that if you look at the photo I linked to the supporting hoops
behind the seats did not collapse. I believe someone on the list actually
inspected that particular plane after it flipped. So maybe they can provide
more information.
www.ch601.org/stories.htm
Van's is featuring the roll bar in the (unreleased) rv-12 but (judging by
the small photographs on the Van's site) I don't see any more roll-over
protection in the pictures of the rv-3, rv-4, rv-6, rv-8 or rv-9 than the
601XL has. In most of these I see a single, large-ish tube between the
fixed, forward portion of the canopy and the rear, movable portion. I would
predict that the two interlocked tubes on the XL would be less likely [quote][b]
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