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Matt Whiting wrote:
Flyingmonk wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWC2X...rplane%20pilot
Overweight? Out of CG? Stalled? Too slow? What do you all think?
Overweight.
Hard to tell from that. I don't understand Spanish and wasn't sure I
understood the video. The first part looked to be from after the crash
when they were treating the people,
No, it was some kind of medevac mission. The video is in chronological
order. They had the plane stuffed completely full of people and heavy
equipment, including a pretty large gas cylinder of some kind.
yet the airplane looked to be in too
good of condition to have survived the crash that was show later in the
video, especially given the fire. The airplane looked to be right wing
heavy and then it appeared that a lot of left rudder was applied to try
to raise the wing.
The airplane seemed to get off the ground reasonably quickly
Not to me. It looked like it was behind the power curve the whole time.
and it climbed well out of ground effect
Only for a few seconds, which just proves it was overweight but not
stalled (yet). They were just barely flying, they traded the last bit
of extra airspeed they had for altitude when they ran out of runway, and
then they mushed it in.
rg