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rparigor(at)suffolk.lib.n
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:04 am Post subject: Stuck with low power, what would you do?

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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willie.harrison(at)tinyon
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:57 am Post subject: Stuck with low power, what would you do?

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

G-BZNY





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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