Prop Strikes

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:50:38 -0000, John Godwin
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Anyone else here ever experience one?
Yeh.

How did yours happen?
The airport decided to construct a concrete drainage depression across
the taxiway.

They have one here at COS, just like that, and it gets someone it
seems atleast once a year.


Scott D

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Best story I've heard from an FAA Inspector...

FAA Inspector is finishing up some business at the FBO when a Mooney taxi's
up and shuts down. Pilot jumps out, storms into the FBO and starts chewing
out the FBO attendant...
"When was the last time anybody checked the runway for FOD?!! I just tried
to take off and I know I ran something over! This airplane cost me $$$$ and
I will not tolerate debris on the runway!!.... blah bla blah... I want to
see the airport manager, I'll have your job.... bla bla bla...

The FAA Inspector just stands back and listens for awhile, then goes out to
secretly investigate... he goes out on the runway and discovers a towbar...
brings it back and approaches an open hanger where another pilot was washing
his plane and asks if he recognizes the towbar... pilot responds "Yep,
that's George's, the guy with the Mooney parked down infront of the FBO"

FAA Inspector takes the towbar back to the FBO and asks the Mooney pilot if
that was his towbar. Mooney pilot says "Yep, and who the hell bent it all
up on me??!! I just used it 20 minutes ago!!"

FAA Inspector says "You did. You taxied out and tried to take off with it
still attached. I'll let you off with some remedial training and by the
way, you'll need a new prop and an engine tear down."

Jim

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says...
Anyone else here ever experience one? How did yours happen?

Didn't happen to me, saw the airplane in a hangar next to the one I
was working in and asked.

Seems the not very old Cessna 172 was towed out of the hangar by a
friend of owner. This friend had permission to fly it and was an
instructor. The instructor/friend towed the airplane out using a golf
cart they have for the purpose. After pulling the airplane out and
turning it away from the hangar door and aligning it with the taxiway,
the guy disconnnects the golf cart and puts it into the hangar and
closes the hangar door. Then he comes back out and climbs into the
airplane and fires it up.

Nothing happened right away, not at idle anyway. The prop missed the
still attached towbar. But when the engine was revved up for the
runnup, the lowered pressure in front of the prop sucked the tow bar
up and I guess caused a sudden stop.

When I saw the airplane it was without it's engine and prop. The prop
had to be replaced and the engine overhauled. The prop was a constant
speed version. Pretty costly whoops.

Corky Scott

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:10:02 -0500, Peter R.
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George Patterson ) wrote:

wrote:

Anyone else here ever experience one?

Not yet.

Two types of pilots, those that have and those that will??

Thats more true with retract pilots than with the tow bar!

Scott D

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I think we could safely say that the person that lands gear up will simultaneously experience a prop strike...

I watched a guy here at the airpark taxi his 182 straight into a chuck hole...I have never heard anything like that
crunching and grinding and chunk chunk chunk as the engine died under the load. He knew right where the hole was and was
trying to miss it with his mains...ended up with a new prop and engine...


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Anyone else here ever experience one? How did yours happen?
Mine have been ag related and hit ground, rocks, birds, and ?
Ever throw off a piece of the prop blade? I lost a piece during
climbout of a jungle strip in the Amazon in a C-185. Managed to dead
stick it back without any further damage but it took nearly two months
to get a replacement. IN the meantime, I used a field expedient and cut
off an equal amount from the other blade. We were about 200 miles from
civilization on the Rio Curaray.
Ah the fun old days....
Ol S&B

"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
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You mention co-coordinating the ailerons with the wind condition, and the
use of power, but you don't mention the use of elevator.

If you were originally (okay) in the quartering tailwind, might you not have
had the elevator full down (forward) as recommended, which would have caused
the tail-lift once in a headwind situation??? (and power would have just
added even more lift to the tail).

Or do you recall pulling the elevator back (up) as you crossed from
tailwind-to-headwind?

"Gene Seibel" wrote in message oups.com...
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Gene & Sue's Aeroplanes - http://pad39a.com/gene/planes.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.


Bummer, looked like a nice bird. My first airplane ride was in a TriPacer...

Corky Scott wrote:

Nothing happened right away, not at idle anyway. The prop missed the
still attached towbar. But when the engine was revved up for the
runnup, the lowered pressure in front of the prop sucked the tow bar
up and I guess caused a sudden stop.

Machado tells the story of a plane spotted taxiing with the towbar still
attached. Someone radioed to stop him from taking off.

He had just landed.

George Patterson
He who marries for money earns every penny of it.

"Blueskies" wrote in message
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I think we could safely say that the person that lands gear up will
simultaneously experience a prop strike...


What if it was a Twin Commander?

;-)