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My home airport had a crash this morning
It seems that the gear was down. A ground observer and the online flight recording link both seemed to indicate a very high approach speed. Is it posssible that a frozen/ plugged or partially plugged pitot tube could have caused an excesive approach speed? I've been flying for more than 25 years and the scariest event I ever had has a frozen static port in marginal weather. GPS provides a ground speed that is a backup for the airspeed indicator (accounting for winds) You started the flight in the wee hours of the morning, you are tired, flying a routine approach in reasonable weather are you doing all the proper cross checks? It's clear that you should be, but it's also clear that something went very wrong with the end of this flight. My guess is that it was a coupled approach and pilot just adjusted the throttles to maintain the indicated airspeed.... One other possiblity is that he landed long and was trying to go around and ran out of space. Paul |
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My home airport had a crash this morning
On 25 Jan 2006 12:01:00 -0800, "karl gruber"
wrote: You don't need thrust reversers to stop a Citation 560. BRAKES stop jets. There are MANY Lear jets running around all the time without reversers at all. In the performance charts I've seen, stopping distance in predicated on using no thrust reverse. It's nice to have and makes lots of cool noise but generally unnecessary for corporate jets. The Falcon 900 that landed on our 3800 foot runway sure used them. They went on as soon as the nose wheel came down and with the judicious use of brakes managed to get stopped by the end of the runway. :-)) Without the reversers he'd have been over in the mall parking lot... or maybe in the mall. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com Karl |
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My home airport had a crash this morning
Well Roger,
I'm typed rated in the Falcon 50 and 900. First of all, they don't have "them." There is only one reverser on a 900, on the center engine. NONE of Dassaults landing performance charts are predicated on using reversers--NONE. If they landed on your 3800 ft field you can be SURE their computed landing distance data assured a safe landing without reversers. BRAKES STOP JETS!!!! Further, the 50 and 900 series Falcons are excellent short field jets because their wing design with leading edge devices enable them to use short fields. Not their reverser! Best, Karl ATP BE30 CE500 LR-Jet DA-50, 900 |
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