Listening carefully to the soundtrack the engine seemed to keep running; was it not a dreaded departure stall, avoidance of which all pilots are warned about in training and revaluations?
Listening carefully to the soundtrack the engine seemed to keep running; was it not a dreaded departure stall, avoidance of which all pilots are warned about in training and revaluations?
“Short wing” PA-22-108 Piper Colt BFR (now just FR) @ or slightly over gross with senior owner and new young CFI. “ demonstrate a short field takeoff over an obstacle.” PIC begins T.O. roll and pulls up crisply into precise Vx climb when @30AGL and max AOA CFI pulls mixture gleefully calling “power failure”! PIC slams yoke full forward into the panel for a count of two then immediately pulls back halfway to flare and touchdown all in three or four seconds, rolls just a few feet to a stop, turns to the CFI and shouts “don’t you EVER Pull that shit in a Colt or Tri-Pacer again. This is not a goddamn Cessna with a big wing and low wing loading parachuting gently back to the runway. You have NO idea how close you just came to destroying this classic aircraft and us burning to death inside it. You can’t just do the same shit the same way no matter what aerocraft you’re in. you have to know and adjust for their idiosyncrasies so you don’t ‘ practice bleed’”
I was the pilot of this aircraft. What happened was a downdraft prevented further lift and I had no time to correct my heading. Luckily I am ok but the aircraft did not make it❤
Резкий набор высоты с потерей скорости. И после отказа двигателя нет даже попытки набрать скорость - так и отбросил коньки плашмя. Конечно пилот такого не ожидал и не было высоты и скорости для планирования. 😢
Since the beginning, speed looks to low. So no escape possible in case of engine fail. Never seen a tail wheel aircraft taking off with the tail wheel on the ground. Plane stalled. Independently of engine trouble.
Genuine question (student pilot here), as soon as he lost power he should have pitched down a little to try get a bit of speed up and then flared, right? It looks like he landed fairly flat, if not pitched up slightly.
That's why you never climb out at a high angle of attack. Climb out fast and shallow attitude so if the engine quits, you have some time to respond. That has saved my life twice over 50+ years of flying.