Which plane for 5 small pax?

Engine failures are not rare with piston aircraft engines. I know a pilot
with 16 failures in Beach 18s alone and I read somewhere that about 10% of
Malibus have had partial or total engine failures.

Mike
MU-2

"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
...
Mike,

It's suprising how many of my pilot
friends have a story about an engine failure followed by a forced
landing.


Hmm, than you must have a statistically highly unlikely combination of
friends. Engine failures are EXTREMELY rare events and even rarer as the
cause of fatal accidents.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Mike Noel wrote:

It's suprising how many of my pilot friends have a story about
an engine failure followed by a forced landing.

I'd be more surprised with those that managed to continue flight, after
an engine failure...

Good Thermal day. Wouldn't that make a great hangar flying tale, " Lost my
engine 100 miles from the nearest airport, but managed to work thermals all
the way back home in my Cherokee!"
This might even bring up a serious operational point for emergency
procedures.

--
Regards,
Mike

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/amountainaero/fspic1.html
"Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message
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Mike Noel wrote:

It's suprising how many of my pilot friends have a story about
an engine failure followed by a forced landing.

I'd be more surprised with those that managed to continue flight, after
an engine failure...

Adam Aulick wrote"

What else is out there in the world that I haven't heard of,
without moving up to a six-place plane?


In the kit aircraft world, Velocity have a 5-place model:
http://www.velocityaircraft.com/airmodel.html

Ron Butterfield