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"Dan Luke" wrote:
"George Patterson" wrote: Bet that was the dealer who sold him the plane. Must be a hell of a feeling for those folks, going from being thrilled with the sale to this. Extra Aircraft of Germany had an even worse experience some years ago when their initial customer for the Extra 400 aircraft stalled and crashed on the first flight away from the factory. The cause was later determined as "flight in IMC in an unfamiliar aircraft placed excessive demands on the pilot" (my translation) - over-confidence at its best/worst. The autopilot functioned differently from the pilot's previous aircraft, and this might have led him into the stall. For those who can read German, the investigation report is he http://www.bfu-web.de/berichte/98_3x329dub.pdf Greetings, Markus |
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Markus Voget wrote:
Extra Aircraft of Germany had an even worse experience some years ago when their initial customer for the Extra 400 aircraft stalled and crashed on the first flight away from the factory. The cause was later determined as "flight in IMC in an unfamiliar aircraft placed excessive demands on the pilot" (my translation) - over-confidence at its best/worst. The autopilot functioned differently from the pilot's previous aircraft, and this might have led him into the stall. For those who can read German, the investigation report is he http://www.bfu-web.de/berichte/98_3x329dub.pdf That can also be translated as 'plane' stupid. Brand new airplane and the guy is taking off into IMC. Even if you are familiar with the plane, a brand new airplane I'd guess is just like a house or car or anything else, there will be squawks. Try everything out in VMC where you can test things without having to worry about IMC. Gerald |
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 06:01:16 GMT, "G. Sylvester"
wrote: That can also be translated as 'plane' stupid. Brand new airplane and the guy is taking off into IMC. Even if you are familiar with the plane, a brand new airplane I'd guess is just like a house or car or anything else, there will be squawks. Try everything out in VMC where you can test things without having to worry about IMC. In fairness, I would have hoped they did a VMC delivery flight and systems checkout before signing the paperwork accepting the aircraft.. |
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Dan Luke wrote:
This is a flying newsgroup where issues pertinent to the world of (mostly) private airplanes are discussed. The loss of a $600k single-engine, piston airplane is a significant event in this small world. It raises issues that are on topic in this forum, that's why I posted the link and put it in the context I did. Exactly. The issues that this incident brings to light beyond the tragic deaths, (which happen every single day X100 on the highways of this country) are what your post was about. I (and 95% of the other readers) realize this are were not "offended' by your post. |
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