Drag Chute Deployed ?

the outlanding on water is far more common...

Good point. Getting back to the Wurtsboro Salto accident, the pilot might
indeed have tried landing in a lake if the option occurred to him (there was
probably a lake within reach). In the late 1980's an HP-14 landed safely and
without damage in one of them.

If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the nose
from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water.


Mike Yankee

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:14:38 +0000, MikeYankee wrote:

If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the
nose from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water.

Does anybody know if the Ventus pilot in the recent incident (
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...15X01341&key=1 ) landed
wheel up or down?

Thanks

Ian

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:14:38 +0000, MikeYankee wrote:

If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the
nose from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water.

Does anybody know if the Ventus pilot in the recent incident (
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...15X01341&key=1 ) landed
wheel up or down?

Thanks

Ian

Heard it was wheel down. From the damage, would appear not to have been
minimum energy. Gross reservoir is 7950MSL though. If downwind
(conventional wisdom), touch down would have been pretty fast.

Frank Whiteley

F.L. Whiteley wrote:

"Ian Forbes" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:14:38 +0000, MikeYankee wrote:


If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the
nose from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water.

Does anybody know if the Ventus pilot in the recent incident (
http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...15X01341&key=1 ) landed
wheel up or down?

Thanks

Ian


Heard it was wheel down. From the damage, would appear not to have been
minimum energy. Gross reservoir is 7950MSL though. If downwind
(conventional wisdom), touch down would have been pretty fast.

Frank Whiteley


Wheel down, according to my second hand source (whom I believe was part
of the crew that picked up/fished out the pieces). Also, I was told the
tail touched first, causing the nose to hit hard enough to submerge,
resulting in the flip. Again second hand.

Shawn