Student Pilot lands short of runway

I'm sure the FAA will be very interested in every detail of the
instruction
up until that point, looking at the student's logbook, school/CFI/CAP
records, aircraft records, and anything else they can find. The whole
situation will likely be scrutinized very carefully. But, sometimes,
despite the best of intentions and what seems like good judgement,
accidents
occur. Even to experienced pilots.

And *that* is why I wouldn't want to be his CFI tonight.

I'm sure the poor sap is laying awake right now, wondering what the heck he
could have done differently...and the answer might very well be "nothing..."
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

(Hankal) wrote in news:20040527203333.13190.00000017@mb-
m20.aol.com:

I'd not want to be his CFI tonight...
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He may have been ready to solo, but got the jitters at the last moment.

OK, as I've said before, I've not had a formal lesson yet, but I bet all
the money in my wallet he would have powered to the runway had he not been
"warned".

He was probably coming in low, started to reconize it and perhaps even
started to ad power a little power, or at least was mentally thinking in
that direction. Being nervious to begin with, he REALLY freaked out when
all the guy's on the ground started yelling at him on the radio and was
conviced by the warnings that he was even lower than he was.... panicked,
pulled up instictivly, and stalled.


Now, there's less then $20 in my wallet :-) so that's about how conviced
I am of my theory. But that's how I visualize it.

--
ET


"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

"ET" wrote in message
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OK, as I've said before, I've not had a formal lesson yet, but I bet all
the money in my wallet he would have powered to the runway had he not been
"warned".



Or, had he not been warned, he would have hit something on the way in.

I don't know the airport and what the obstructions are like so I can't
really say. What might have happened if he wasn't warned will never be
known.

CFLav8r wrote:

Well we had a little mishap here in sunny Florida today.
Seems a student pilot on his first solo flight was on final to runway 25 at
KORL when he was apparently spotted flying the final a little too low. Some
witnesses say that he was warned over the radio that he was too low by
either another pilot or the tower.
The student pilot responded to the warning by pulling up and not applying
power, in effect stalling the airplane over the lake at the approach end of
runway 25.
The airplane stalled and fell into the Lake Barton where the pilot was then
rescued by a passing boater.
The airplane is apparently owned by the local CAP chapter.

The airplane involved appears to be owned by a private Florida-based
corporation, not CAP. How did CAP get associated with the accident story?
Sounds like the passing boater was lucky that the plane missed him based on the
reported distance that he was missed.