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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:14:38 +0000, MikeYankee wrote:
If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the nose from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water. Does anybody know if the Ventus pilot in the recent incident ( http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...15X01341&key=1 ) landed wheel up or down? Thanks Ian |
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"Ian Forbes" wrote in message news On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:14:38 +0000, MikeYankee wrote: If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the nose from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water. Does anybody know if the Ventus pilot in the recent incident ( http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...15X01341&key=1 ) landed wheel up or down? Thanks Ian Heard it was wheel down. From the damage, would appear not to have been minimum energy. Gross reservoir is 7950MSL though. If downwind (conventional wisdom), touch down would have been pretty fast. Frank Whiteley |
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F.L. Whiteley wrote:
"Ian Forbes" wrote in message news On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:14:38 +0000, MikeYankee wrote: If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the nose from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water. Does anybody know if the Ventus pilot in the recent incident ( http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?e...15X01341&key=1 ) landed wheel up or down? Thanks Ian Heard it was wheel down. From the damage, would appear not to have been minimum energy. Gross reservoir is 7950MSL though. If downwind (conventional wisdom), touch down would have been pretty fast. Frank Whiteley Wheel down, according to my second hand source (whom I believe was part of the crew that picked up/fished out the pieces). Also, I was told the tail touched first, causing the nose to hit hard enough to submerge, resulting in the flip. Again second hand. Shawn |
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I guess the lesson that we can learn from this is;
If there is nothing but trees below you, then *put it in the trees* and don't try to avoid them. May be a coincidence but we had two crashes this season, both into the trees and both pilots survived with virtually no injury. One had a cut on his head from the canopy and the other one just bruises. The gliders, a Pegase and a DG-300 were totally damaged. So obviously crashing into trees can give you an *edge* in such a situation. Christian |
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