Slip slidin' away.

"...both rudder pedals went to the floor..."

Sounds to me like one cable broke, the rudder went hard over due to
unbalanced cable tension, and there was no way to center the rudder.
Knowing both the accident pilot and the owner of the other JS-1 which had
the failure on the ground, I believe them. And neither I, nor the factory,
nor the NTSB were in the cockpit.

I also believe that the factory fix will take care of the problem.


"John Galloway" wrote in message
...
I too would like to see a full report into the US accident but I
doubt that JS1 pilots will be at all disturbed now when they are
flying:

If the US accident was the result of the rudder cable fraying
(which clearly was a design issue) and then breaking in flight
then that should be fixed by the modification to the rudder
pedal S tube design by adding bell ends and sleeve inserts to
protect the cables (Technical Note TN.JS-010 06 July 2012).

If it was due to misinterpretation of the rudder over-locking in a
side slip then that aspect has been highlighted in the flight
manual.

John Galloway


At 07:51 31 August 2013, Ramy wrote:
I find it disturbing that no follow up that I am aware off was
published
ye=
t about the cause of this incident by the pilot or anyone else
who knows
ab=
out it. If I was flying a JS1 I would be even more disturbed.
Now we all
kn=
ow we can't trust the NTSB to teach us anything about the
cause of glider
a=
ccidents, but one would hope that at least we will be sharing
information
a=
mong ourselves, so we don't have yet another one of those
"too bad he
wasn'=
t aware of this".

Ramy