Another Day on the Links...

[DonGlock26]

Well, they say any landing you walk away from is a good landing. If I was that pilot, I would have walked right into the clubhouse for a stiff drink.

 

[Oddball]

Well, they say any landing you walk away from is a good landing. If I was that pilot, I would have walked right into the clubhouse for a stiff drink.

Actually a very good power-off emergency landing, over uneven terrain.

Fun fact: you used to be allowed to land your paraglider at the Trump course in Rancho Palos Verdes.

 

[Darkwind]

Well, they say any landing you walk away from is a good landing. If I was that pilot, I would have walked right into the clubhouse for a stiff drink.

Nice save

 

[luiza]

Another brilliant stunt from The Donald .
Another Eagle -- has landed .

 

[White 6]

Well, they say any landing you walk away from is a good landing. If I was that pilot, I would have walked right into the clubhouse for a stiff drink.

Wow! What a lucky and skilled pilot! I doubt, I would be impressed with his aircraft maintenance standards, though.

 

[Oddball]

Wow! What a lucky and skilled pilot! I doubt, I would be impressed with his aircraft maintenance standards, though.

Mechanical components fail all the time...I had an alternator failure on one of my cross country flights...Also, it could be pilot error that caused the engine shutdown (i.e. failure to use carb heat).

Furthermore, the training to get a basic private pilot's license spends significant time learning how to set up for power off emergency landings.

Best to STFU and look the fool, rather than say something and remove all doubt.

 

[White 6]

Mechanical components fail all the time...I had an alternator failure on one of my cross country flights...Also, it could be pilot error that caused the engine shutdown (i.e. failure to use carb heat).

Furthermore, the training to get a basic private pilot's license spends significant time learning how to set up for power off emergency landings.

Best to STFU and look the fool, rather than say something and remove all doubt.

More often than not, power loss in small private aircraft while in the air is due to poor maintenance. I built a Hiller one time, that arrived totally in pieces. I did not fund the project, but was only put in charge of reassembly from the ground up, using the dash 10, 20, 30 and 40 manual, everything by the book, except for components, the owner would not fund, due to expense. In doing so, I learned to ground slide and lift off, and achieve a shaky hoover close to the ground, but I warned the owner, I was not able to cure his engine problems that repeatedly cause loss of power, without a new fuel bladder install, that he would not fund, and the actual installation beyond my capabilities. I would repeatedly clear line, disassemble/reassemble the twin carburators, reinstall filters, only to have them clogged by black rubbery crap from the aged, deteriorating fuel bladder, within a few minutes of operation. He trusted his ability to get it back on the ground in one piece. I did not. I quit the reclamation project after on final flight with him at the controls, the rpms dropping below minimum, and him getting a controlled land, stopped on the ground with the front of the bubble, about a foot and a half from a sturdily built barbwire fence separating his private airstrip from his pasture with a small herd of cows scattering on the other side.

He did make a longer flight with another friend of mine, a chopper pilot of the NG and TN Highway patrol, who was impressed with my work, having seen pictures of it arriving completely disassemble on back of flatbed truck. I cautioned of recurring problem, but he said "We'll see". They made from the private strip to a controlled landing in the median of I-40. The Hiller got trade to some idiot with twin diesel house boat, Donny deciding he could swim if necessary better than he could fly. He blew one of the houseboat engines, coming down the Mississippi, again another example of his maintenance management on a thin budget.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Fun fact: you used to be allowed to land your paraglider at the Trump course in Rancho Palos Verdes.

That’s before they were being fitted with belly turrets.

 

[Oddball]

More often than not, power loss in small private aircraft while in the air is due to poor maintenance. I built a Hiller one time, that arrived totally in pieces. I did not fund the project, but was only put in charge of reassembly from the ground up, using the dash 10, 20, 30 and 40 manual, everything by the book, except for components, the owner would not fund, due to expense. In doing so, I learned to ground slide and lift off, and achieve a shaky hoover close to the ground, but I warned the owner, I was not able to cure his engine problems that repeatedly cause loss of power, without a new fuel bladder install, that he would not fund, and the actual installation beyond my capabilities. I would repeatedly clear line, disassemble/reassemble the twin carburators, reinstall filters, only to have them clogged by black rubbery crap from the aged, deteriorating fuel bladder, within a few minutes of operation. He trusted his ability to get it back on the ground in one piece. I did not. I quit the reclamation project after on final flight with him at the controls, the rpms dropping below minimum, and him getting a controlled land, stopped on the ground with the front of the bubble, about a foot and a half from a sturdily built barbwire fence separating his private airstrip from his pasture with a small herd of cows scattering on the other side.

He did make a longer flight with another friend of mine, a chopper pilot of the NG and TN Highway patrol, who was impressed with my work, having seen pictures of it arriving completely disassemble on back of flatbed truck. I cautioned of recurring problem, but he said "We'll see". They made from the private strip to a controlled landing in the median of I-40. The Hiller got trade to some idiot with twin diesel house boat, Donny deciding he could swim if necessary better than he could fly. He blew one of the houseboat engines, coming down the Mississippi, again another example of his maintenance management on a thin budget.

More often than not aircraft mishaps are pilot error, your anecdotal text brick notwithstanding.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Well, they say any landing you walk away from is a good landing. If I was that pilot, I would have walked right into the clubhouse for a stiff drink.

 

[White 6]

More often than not aircraft mishaps are pilot error, your anecdotal text brick notwithstanding.

When it accident is due to loss of power, Maintenance issues (normally #2 for small plane accidents overall) become Number #1.

 

[ThisIsMe]