Hi BJ;
Hope all has been well with you and yours.
I just sort of caught this whole thing on the fly, as we were going out the
door as it was happening :-)
Are you referring to the gear bounce pass or the final belly in John? I did
catch a short replay later on that evening.
On the final landing it looked like he went to idle cut off on both fans
going into the flare but from the view angle it was hard to tell. I'm
assuming he caught at least two blades out of the four on each side as he
settled in but the camera angle was quartering rear which hid everything
under the plane after the slide.
On the bounce pass, I was just assuming he had both fans up. Did he have the
left engine zeroed? Wasn't the port side the side with the gear down?
Why would he zero the port engine?
It looked like the bounce pass was done above the blue line anyway, but I
sure wouldn't have tried that pass with the left engine down......of course
it wasn't my call, but to me that would seem strange??????
Dudley

"Big John" wrote in message
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Dudley

Did you notice he had at least the port engine shut down. Couldn't
tell from camera angle but may not have gotten the prop(s).
In ny event, Good job.

Big John
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:05:08 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:


"Chris W" wrote in message
news:m95ff.11794$ih5.10682@dukeread11...
Joe Feise wrote:

Yeah, must be a slow news day when CNN covers a gear problem and belly
landing
of a King Air live...

It wasn't just CNN, FOX and MSNBC were also covering it. Sure was a
smooth landing. Seemed to hang a bit though, I guess ground effect is
pretty huge when the wing is only a foot off the ground.

--
Chris W
KE5GIX

He was carrying extra speed to fly it onto the runway, which he did
perfectly.
The REAL smooth job of flying with this incident wasn't really the
landing,
but rather the earlier touch and go on the left main. He had to hold up
the
right wing as he tried to get a little bounce on the left main trying to
jar
the right side retaining latches loose. That's a mean trick, and takes a
good stick to pull it off without dropping the wing down far enough to
catch
the prop tips. It didn't work, but he got through the try without dinging
it.
He did a good job all around I would say.
Dudley Henriques