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This one did not break my airplane, but. . .
Landing in a cross wind at an uncontrolled airport -- it might have been Urbana IL, not sure. Anyhow, there was a large barn not too far from the centerline on the upwind side of the runway. I pretty much had most of the rudder in, maybe 5 feet agl, when I got immediately downwind of the barn. The barn might have even caused a touch of tail wind -- the airplane ran out of lift right now, and dropped in. I would have been surprised to see the wheel shafts poking thru the upper wing surface, but hey, it's a Mooney and they are strong. (I did not check to see if the dihedral increased.) The lesson is, if there's any structure upwind and close to the runway, either fly it on or land long -- otherwise you may be making a much firmer landing than you intended. Your turn. |
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With under 200h in my logbook, I heard a departure clearance just before
mine, but didn’t pay too much attention as it sounded like a helicopter, and they were generally pretty far away from us at that airport. On liftoff I got "Skylane Seven Niner Five report visual the AS three five zero above you at your one o’clock". I looked up, and seeing the Eurocopter I dutifully replied "Visual the Squirrel" when in no time at all, still looking up, I was looking at the ground! Due to a really unhappy wake turbulence incident with a helicopter I had, in zero seconds flat become almost fully inverted at "maybe" 100AGL! I did the wrong thing, which turned out to be right in upside-down world, I pulled sharply, which made me climb rapidly toward the already close ground, but gave me aileron authority to flip it right and nurse it back into the sky. At least that’s my best guess as to how I got it righted and flew away from that one. The fairly decent climb performance of the very lightly-loaded 182, still in fine pitch probably didn’t hurt. Radio silence - nobody said a thing. Lesson learned - mainly don’t come anywhere near those buggers! But also don’t necessarily count on ATC to manage wake turbulence spacing in a case like this. In article , says... This one did not break my airplane, but. . . Landing in a cross wind at an uncontrolled airport -- it might have been Urbana IL, not sure. Anyhow, there was a large barn not too far from the centerline on the upwind side of the runway. I pretty much had most of the rudder in, maybe 5 feet agl, when I got immediately downwind of the barn. The barn might have even caused a touch of tail wind -- the airplane ran out of lift right now, and dropped in. I would have been surprised to see the wheel shafts poking thru the upper wing surface, but hey, it's a Mooney and they are strong. (I did not check to see if the dihedral increased.) The lesson is, if there's any structure upwind and close to the runway, either fly it on or land long -- otherwise you may be making a much firmer landing than you intended. Your turn. |
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Simulation?
Brian W On 7/5/2010 2:54 PM, VOR-DME wrote: With under 200h in my logbook, I heard a departure clearance just before mine, but didn’t pay too much attention as it sounded like a helicopter, and they were generally pretty far away from us at that airport. On liftoff I got "Skylane Seven Niner Five report visual the AS three five zero above you at your one o’clock". I looked up, and seeing the Eurocopter I dutifully replied "Visual the Squirrel" when in no time at all, still looking up, I was looking at the ground! Due to a really unhappy wake turbulence incident with a helicopter I had, in zero seconds flat become almost fully inverted at "maybe" 100AGL! I did the wrong thing, which turned out to be right in upside-down world, I pulled sharply, which made me climb rapidly toward the already close ground, but gave me aileron authority to flip it right and nurse it back into the sky. At least that’s my best guess as to how I got it righted and flew away from that one. The fairly decent climb performance of the very lightly-loaded 182, still in fine pitch probably didn’t hurt. Radio silence - nobody said a thing. Lesson learned - mainly don’t come anywhere near those buggers! But also don’t necessarily count on ATC to manage wake turbulence spacing in a case like this. In article , says... This one did not break my airplane, but. . . Landing in a cross wind at an uncontrolled airport -- it might have been Urbana IL, not sure. Anyhow, there was a large barn not too far from the centerline on the upwind side of the runway. I pretty much had most of the rudder in, maybe 5 feet agl, when I got immediately downwind of the barn. The barn might have even caused a touch of tail wind -- the airplane ran out of lift right now, and dropped in. I would have been surprised to see the wheel shafts poking thru the upper wing surface, but hey, it's a Mooney and they are strong. (I did not check to see if the dihedral increased.) The lesson is, if there's any structure upwind and close to the runway, either fly it on or land long -- otherwise you may be making a much firmer landing than you intended. Your turn. |
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In article ,
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