EventHorizon wrote:
/snip/ At about 1500'agl he tapped me on the
shoulder (I was looking outside for traffic). He said "we have a
problem"./snip/
About 20 feet or so I pulled to idle cutoff and it was weird to see a
prop stopped as I flared for a nice landing. I rolled out and used
residual speed to pull off on a turnoff and coast to a stop. /snip/

The plane is in the shop to get its cable replaced, apparently it broke
somewhere between the throttle quadrant and the carburetor, not at
either end.

Event Horizon


As described, this reads like a Happy Ending.

There's one element that is very troubling: the cable break in the
middle. I am supposing that the bowden has triple internal helical wires
as low friction standoffs - and that repeated motion against a wire cut
the cable.

That shouldn't happen....

Brian W