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Jimmy Young

Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Posts: 182
Location: Missouri City, TX

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: engine out...uh oh

Kolbers,



Yesterday I had an engine out forced landing after about 15 minutes  

into my flight. I was at about 1000 ft. and the engine started  

coughing a bit and dropped most of it's power. I made an uneventful  

off-field landing in a hayfield. It was my first engine out  

experience, and I will be the first to admit that once I landed and  

stopped, my thoughts were that any other good news is just a bonus.  

Your priorities will change rapidly depending on your situation.



I called a friend who came out to pick me up, after a good walk  

through the country. I contacted the owner of the property and  

returned to stake her down and put a tarp over her. I'll be going out  

this morning to fold her up and haul her home for diagnosis. I'll  

update the List with my findings later.



Jimmy Young

FS II

Houston TX

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Jimmy Young
Missouri City, TX
Kolb FS II/HKS 700

planecrazzzy
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: Re: engine out...uh oh

Hi Jim,

           Glad to hear things turned out alright....



 How many hours on the engine ?  503 ?

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Gotta Fly...

Mike & "Jaz" in MN

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 	  Jimmy Young wrote: 	
		  Kolbers,



Yesterday I had an engine out forced landing after about 15 minutes  

into my flight. I was at about 1000 ft. and the engine started  

coughing a bit and dropped most of it's power. I made an uneventful  

off-field landing in a hayfield. It was my first engine out  experience, 

Jimmy Young

FS II

Houston TX

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slyck(at)frontiernet.net
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 8:30 am Post subject: engine out...uh oh

Hey Jimmy, join the club.  This morning I had a trip to a fly in  

b'fast cut short.

In my case the push-in fitting on the carb decided to part ways with  

the top cover.

(that guy will get threads now!)



good news/bad news: this hay field was long alfalfa (bad news)

The last few feet of the slide was with a good view of the hay out  

the windshield as the

old Kolb tipped up on the nose.  -lots of drag.



Some cosmetic blems on the nosebowl, bent pitot assy.

-and the aluminum tailwheel spring snapped off.  A visual inspection  

revealed

that  an old fracture at that point, just where it emerges from the  

steel receiver tube.

A generous neighbor and new friend gave me a lift back to my car and  

tools.

I stuck the spring back in, drilled one hole, shortened the chains  

and flew it

back out of a soft, bumpy cornfield.  It took about 40 bounces to get  

the right levitation.



15 minutes round trip.  No breakfast.



On 25, May 2008, at 7:26 AM, Jimmy Young wrote:



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 Kolbers,



 Yesterday I had an engine out forced landing after about 15 minutes  

 into my flight. I was at about 1000 ft. and the engine started  

 coughing a bit and dropped most of it's power. I made an uneventful  

 off-field landing in a hayfield. It was my first engine out  

 experience, and I will be the first to admit that once I landed and  

 stopped, my thoughts were that any other good news is just a bonus.  

 Your priorities will change rapidly depending on your situation.



 I called a friend who came out to pick me up, after a good walk  

 through the country. I contacted the owner of the property and  

 returned to stake her down and put a tarp over her. I'll be going  

 out this morning to fold her up and haul her home for diagnosis.  

 I'll update the List with my findings later.



 Jimmy Young

 FS II

 Houston TX

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Jimmy Young

Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Posts: 182
Location: Missouri City, TX

Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: engine out...uh oh

All,



I spent all day getting my plane out of the field and back to the  

hanger with the help of a good friend. When I got there this morning,  

I changed out the plugs to see if it would turn over & run. It fired  

up after some coaxing, but it was not running well at all. I watched  

the engine temps and within less than a minute it was obvious the #1  

cyl is not running. I shut it down and proceeded to move on with the  

task of transporting her home. Tomorrow I'll see if I can figure out  

what happened.



For planecrazy; you asked how many hrs. on the engine: it's a 503 DCDI  

with 205 hrs. I checked the rings thru the exhaust ports at 175 hrs,  

and they were fairly clean and moving freely. I plan to check for  

spark at the plugs tomorrow and move on from there. I did look at the  

carb bowls out in the field, both were full of clean gas, no water or  

visible contamination. The #2 cyl plugs looked good, nice tan color,  

but the #1 cyl plugs were a darkish metallic grey color, not wet or  

oily, but a color indicative of either no ignition or way too rich.



Jimmy Young

FS II

Houston

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Jimmy Young
Missouri City, TX
Kolb FS II/HKS 700

DAquaNut(at)aol.com
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: engine out...uh oh

In a message dated 5/25/2008 6:31:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  jdy100(at)comcast.net writes:

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Kolbers,



Yesterday I had an engine out forced landing after    about 15 minutes  

into my flight. 	
  

            Jimmy,

  

     So glad to hear you were up to the task at hand, and you  had a suitable spot to land and those great big tires on her!  I will be at  the hanger in the next couple of days. Glad You and your bird are OK!

  

            Ed  Diebel



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