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JetPilot
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 Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: INCREDIBLE engine fialure video from Florida !!! |
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Here is recent video from Florida, it was in a Skyranger, not a Kolb. This is enough to make one think, an engine failure can happen very quickly and at anytime !
This guy did a great job, tried to restart the engine while he had the time, which gained him enough extra distance to make the road he did end up landing on. Lost of luck there were no lines or traffic there, but this is a really great video where everything worked out right.
As always with you tube, the video quality will be HORRIBLE unless you click the " HQ " box at the bottom right of the video, and then make it full screen by clicking the other box also on the bottom right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk
Mike
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: INCREDIBLE engine fialure video from Florida !!! |
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that got my heart beat up and I never left this chair!
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On 24, Apr 2009, at 10:33 AM, JetPilot wrote:
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Here is recent video from Florida, it was in a Skyranger, not a
Kolb. This is enough to make one think, an engine failure can
happen very quickly and at anytime !
This guy did a great job, tried to restart the engine while he had
the time, which gained him enough extra distance to make the road
he did end up landing on. Lost of luck there were no lines or
traffic there, but this is a really great video where everything
worked out right.
As always with you tube, the video quality will be HORRIBLE unless
you click the " HQ " box at the bottom right of the video, and then
make it full screen by clicking the other box also on the bottom
right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk
Mike
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"NO FEAR" - If you have no fear you did not go as fast
as you could have !!!
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lucien
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:16 am Post subject: Re: INCREDIBLE engine fialure video from Florida !!! |
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| JetPilot wrote: | Here is recent video from Florida, it was in a Skyranger, not a Kolb. This is enough to make one think, an engine failure can happen very quickly and at anytime !
This guy did a great job, tried to restart the engine while he had the time, which gained him enough extra distance to make the road he did end up landing on. Lost of luck there were no lines or traffic there, but this is a really great video where everything worked out right.
As always with you tube, the video quality will be HORRIBLE unless you click the " HQ " box at the bottom right of the video, and then make it full screen by clicking the other box also on the bottom right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk
Mike |
Eeyikes, I get nervous flying over a town that low even underneath my 912.... Glad there was a clear highway to land on. And most glad that everyone is ok.
I'd be curious as to what caused the engine-out. Looks/sounds like a fuel starvation even to me....
LS
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JetPilot
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: INCREDIBLE engine fialure video from Florida !!! |
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Eeyikes, I get nervous flying over a town that low even underneath my 912.... Glad there was a clear highway to land on. And most glad that everyone is ok.
I'd be curious as to what caused the engine-out. Looks/sounds like a fuel starvation even to me....
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I'm with you on both counts Lucien. I have never flown my Kolb over Miami or any of its suburbs, I just wont fly were the only landing option is on top of someones roof. ( Roads are not an option, we have constant traffic here, 24/7 ).
It does sound like the carb bowl ran dry, and started to fill up a after each the engine had been stopped for a bit, and then run dry again upon restart. At the end of the video you can hear his Electric Facet Pump is running as he is shutting everything down 
Mike
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:10 am Post subject: INCREDIBLE engine fialure video from Florida !!! |
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Eeyikes, I get nervous flying over a town that low even underneath my 912>>
Are you allowed to do that?
Here we have had a rule about flying closer than a certain distance from any
collection of people or overflying villages/towns etc.
That has been removed just recently but the rule about keeping in a position
so that you can glide clear of any conurbation still stands. This is
generasl aviation rule not just microlights
Pat
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Thom Riddle
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:39 am Post subject: Re: INCREDIBLE engine fialure video from Florida !!! |
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The rule in the USA is stated in the FAR Part 91.119 as follows:
Ā§ 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General.
Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the following altitudes:
(a) Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface.
(b) Over congested areas. Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft.
(c) Over other than congested areas. An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.
(d) Helicopters. Helicopters may be operated at less than the minimums prescribed in paragraph (b) or (c) of this section if the operation is conducted without hazard to persons or property on the surface. In addition, each person operating a helicopter shall comply with any routes or altitudes specifically prescribed for helicopters by the
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject: INCREDIBLE engine fialure video from Florida !!! |
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Of course there is the catch all 103.9:
(a) No person may operate any ultralight vehicle in a manner that creates a hazard to other persons or property.
And hazards, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.
Rick
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Dana Hague <d-m-hague(at)comcast.net (d-m-hague(at)comcast.net)> wrote:
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| Quote: | | Dana, ultralights must abide by GA regulation too. They are not exempt from anything except a license to fly. |
At 11:35 AM 4/25/2009, russ kinne wrote:
| Quote: | | Sorry, but I think you're wrong . ALL aircraft must obey the altitude rules, |
No, Part 91 (which specifies, among other things, minimum altitude for aircraft) does NOT apply to ultralight vehicles operated under Part 103.
§ 91.1 Applicability. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section and §§91.701 and 91.703, this part prescribes rules governing the operation of aircraft (other than moored balloons, kites, unmanned rockets, and unmanned free balloons, which are governed by part 101 of this chapter, and ultralight vehicles operated in accordance with part 103 of this chapter) within the United States...
What this means is that Part 91 applies only to aircraft OTHER THAN ultralights.
See also <http://www.fly-ul.com/faarules.html>, which includes a letter from the FAA confirming that ultralights are not subject to the GA regulations.
-Dana
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