Bonanza Down

Gross said when his fuel tanks are at full capacity, his plane could
fly about 1,100 miles. He said he thought it was full when he left
Las Vegas.

Oh oh, not good. The insurance won't like that....


Which kind do they "like"?

John Harlow wrote:
Gross said when his fuel tanks are at full capacity, his plane could
fly about 1,100 miles. He said he thought it was full when he left
Las Vegas.

Oh oh, not good. The insurance won't like that....


Which kind do they "like"?

The one that doesn't happen and where they can keep the money? ;-)

But, seriously, running out of fuel is one good reason for the insurance to
raise the rate dramatically. While an engine failure can happen for many
valid reasons, running out of fuel is almost always a stupid pilot error.
And insurances don't like stupid pilots.

jue

"Jürgen Exner" wrote:
wrote:
[...]
About 6,000 feet above the airport, his said his engine stalled.
He brought his plane onto a grassy field and eventually stopped on
Auld Road outside the airport.

Makes you wonder what went wrong such that he couldn't make the airport


Yeah, especially when the road is no more than 50ft from the threshold.
Probably more like 30ft.

--
Mike Flyin'8

About 6,000 feet above the airport, his said his engine stalled.
He brought his plane onto a grassy field and eventually stopped on
Auld Road outside the airport.
Gross, who has been flying for 12 years, said he wasn't sure the
exact
cause of the aircraft's trouble, beyond the stalled engine, but he
suspected that one of the plane's fuel tanks was empty.

I'm still a student pilot, but the engine-out emergency checklist in
the plane I train in has a step to switch fuel tanks (and run fuel
pump) specifically to deal with this situation. At 6,000 feet, he
should have had more then enough time to do this if he set best glide,
right? If it turns out that he was sucking on an empty tank and that's
the only problem, then this sounds like evidence that he didn't do his
checklist, or is that step not standard in Bonanza's?

Again, I'm just a student pilot, so if I'm wrong, lemme know.

wrote:
"It could've been a lot worst," he said.

So it may, but it would have been very difficult for that article
to have been any "worst" than it was.

Totally pointless to comment on anything reported by such an
obviously clueless writer.

Cheers CV