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Throttled up atleast 4 times in disbelieve of the prop's unscheduled departure from the chat lol. Completes nervous deadstick landing and again throttles up for taxi again trying to comprehend why the prop hub alone doesnt produce enough thrust for sustained flight lol
@@joshfazenbaker5691 well I was in a very sparsely populated area of Central New York. I did. I do have a friend who owns a helicopter we search for when the propeller came off. I was at 7000 feet. The cone the propeller everything came off, except the flange the bolt snapped, and no one reported it so we believe it landed in the swamp or something.
Hi Mark, where are you flying out of? I used to be Hanger in Michigan Benton Harbor right off of lake Michigan. It looks like it might be like Michigan.
It seems like he was fatigued from trying not to crash on landing that he just tried to stick the last landing...not a good idea. He was all over the place on final and it may have been a bit more windy than he could handle.
This aircraft became a sailplane in second... But pilot made a perfect emergency landing! 🤗At 3:22 maybe he thought: " What a...? Something is missing from the plane's nose..."
I put myself in your shoes and can see the airspeed and rate of descent variations 🙂 Good job aviating and not getting too rattled by a very urgent situation!
How do you make a dead stick landing when you don't have a stick anymore, the wooden prop is what's called the stick, so dead stick landing is when the engine cuts out and the prop stops spinning
I believe it’s just what I named the video to attract viewers. There was no rhyme or reason it’s a stick steering as opposed to a yoke and it just sounded appropriate however, I understand it may not be correct.
@@MarkPenellI used to think "dead stick" was a reference to the joystick control and landing with that type of controls with no power but then I learned that it's actually reference to old wooden props not spinning due to engine failure that applies to any prop material these days. No biggie.
I want to thank all of you who have made comments and I want to apologize ahead of time for not answering them. I hope that posting this in the public section everyone will be able to view it and answer most of the common questions that I receive. This is a Rans S-10 LSA airplane that I built about 5 years ago. It took 650 hours to build and it has a Rotax 582. It was the first time I built an airplane and hopefully the last. The most common questions that I get is what the noise or vibration is in the video, why do I keep advancing the throttle, why didn’t I remove the airplane form the runaway and lastly why did the propellar come off. The vibration is simply the GoPro vibration against the canopy which has a round shape and I couldn’t find the exact GoPro mount to affix to the canopy so that sound is not really heard in the cockpit like you can hear it on the video. Yes, on the bottom right door near the latch you can see a small flapping of the Lexan but that doesnt make any sound what so ever. I kept advancing the throttle because the GoPro records at 30 frames per second and the propeller is moving so fast that the eye can’t see it when at cruise speed. So, when the prop fell off I thought I had another/different issue than a missing propellar. Why did I keep the airplane on the runway? I glided into B16 or Whiteford's airport in central NY. It’s a relatively small airport with a hard top and parallel grass strip. I had a radio and called an emergency and there was a parachute/jumping company there who helped me roll it back to the tarmac. There is little to no traffic at that airport and in less than 5 minutes I was moving the airplane. The actual video is almost an hour and you can see that video if you search for video (I’m looking for the full length and will post it here). Finally, why? First off it was pilot error or the mechanics error which was me. The guidelines for mounting a new prop is torque every hour of operation for the ensuing 5 hours (5 torques). However, after the 3rd hour there wasn’t any more torque that was needed. However, seeing that I didn’t know the correct torque procedure might have had some reason as to why it fell off. I was told that the proper way to torque is to back off the nut then retorque, but I wasn’t aware of that. Secondly, and this may not play too much into this, but the propeller was a new wooden propeller more specifically a left hand that aren’t in stock very often and was made 2 weeks before I bought it. Wooded propellers are lamented layers of wood that are kiln dried to reduce or remove moisture in the wood (So I have been told). I hangered my airplane in an open “T” hangar and the propeller faced the south while hangered and when the sun set it would just heat the propeller and there are some who think that may have shrunk the propeller just enough so that the six 5/16 bolts were ever so slightly loose. With all of that said the bolts that mounted the propeller (with a crush plate) to the flange. There are English size threads and metric size threads. I was using the smaller bolts that I had installed and uninstalled many times (the exact number I’m not sure but more that 10 times). I should have just bought the 8mm bolts and used those instead which of course I did when I bought the Warp drive propeller. I hope that I have answered most of the common questions I get. I’m truly grateful for all the comments and views that I get from you all. I have over 1,500 other videos from my Taylor craft BC12-D and my Cessna 140A. Please give them a look when you get time.
I want to thank all of you who have made comments and I want to apologize ahead of time for not answering them. I hope that posting this in the public section everyone will be able to view it and answer most of the common questions that I receive. This is a Rans S-10 LSA airplane that I built about 5 years ago. It took 650 hours to build and it has a Rotax 582. It was the first time I built an airplane and hopefully the last. The most common questions that I get is what the noise or vibration is in the video, why do I keep advancing the throttle, why didn’t I remove the airplane form the runaway and lastly why did the propellar come off. The vibration is simply the GoPro vibration against the canopy which has a round shape and I couldn’t find the exact GoPro mount to affix to the canopy so that sound is not really heard in the cockpit like you can hear it on the video. Yes, on the bottom right door near the latch you can see a small flapping of the Lexan but that doesnt make any sound what so ever. I kept advancing the throttle because the GoPro records at 30 frames per second and the propeller is moving so fast that the eye can’t see it when at cruise speed. So, when the prop fell off I thought I had another/different issue than a missing propellar. Why did I keep the airplane on the runway? I glided into B16 or Whiteford's airport in central NY. It’s a relatively small airport with a hard top and parallel grass strip. I had a radio and called an emergency and there was a parachute/jumping company there who helped me roll it back to the tarmac. There is little to no traffic at that airport and in less than 5 minutes I was moving the airplane. The actual video is almost an hour and you can see that video if you search for video (I’m looking for the full length and will post it here). Finally, why? First off it was pilot error or the mechanics error which was me. The guidelines for mounting a new prop is torque every hour of operation for the ensuing 5 hours (5 torques). However, after the 3rd hour there wasn’t any more torque that was needed. However, seeing that I didn’t know the correct torque procedure might have had some reason as to why it fell off. I was told that the proper way to torque is to back off the nut then retorque, but I wasn’t aware of that. Secondly, and this may not play too much into this, but the propeller was a new wooden propeller more specifically a left hand that aren’t in stock very often and was made 2 weeks before I bought it. Wooded propellers are lamented layers of wood that are kiln dried to reduce or remove moisture in the wood (So I have been told). I hangered my airplane in an open “T” hangar and the propeller faced the south while hangered and when the sun set it would just heat the propeller and there are some who think that may have shrunk the propeller just enough so that the six 5/16 bolts were ever so slightly loose. With all of that said the bolts that mounted the propeller (with a crush plate) to the flange. There are English size threads and metric size threads. I was using the smaller bolts that I had installed and uninstalled many times (the exact number I’m not sure but more that 10 times). I should have just bought the 8mm bolts and used those instead which of course I did when I bought the Warp drive propeller. I hope that I have answered most of the common questions I get. I’m truly grateful for all the comments and views that I get from you all. I have over 1,500 other videos from my Taylor craft BC12-D and my Cessna 140A. Please give them a look when you get time.
I want to thank all of you who have made comments and I want to apologize ahead of time for not answering them. I hope that posting this in the public section everyone will be able to view it and answer most of the common questions that I receive. This is a Rans S-10 LSA airplane that I built about 5 years ago. It took 650 hours to build and it has a Rotax 582. It was the first time I built an airplane and hopefully the last. The most common questions that I get is what the noise or vibration is in the video, why do I keep advancing the throttle, why didn’t I remove the airplane form the runaway and lastly why did the propellar come off. The vibration is simply the GoPro vibration against the canopy which has a round shape and I couldn’t find the exact GoPro mount to affix to the canopy so that sound is not really heard in the cockpit like you can hear it on the video. Yes, on the bottom right door near the latch you can see a small flapping of the Lexan but that doesnt make any sound what so ever. I kept advancing the throttle because the GoPro records at 30 frames per second and the propeller is moving so fast that the eye can’t see it when at cruise speed. So, when the prop fell off I thought I had another/different issue than a missing propellar. Why did I keep the airplane on the runway? I glided into B16 or Whiteford's airport in central NY. It’s a relatively small airport with a hard top and parallel grass strip. I had a radio and called an emergency and there was a parachute/jumping company there who helped me roll it back to the tarmac. There is little to no traffic at that airport and in less than 5 minutes I was moving the airplane. The actual video is almost an hour and you can see that video if you search for video (I’m looking for the full length and will post it here). Finally, why? First off it was pilot error or the mechanics error which was me. The guidelines for mounting a new prop is torque every hour of operation for the ensuing 5 hours (5 torques). However, after the 3rd hour there wasn’t any more torque that was needed. However, seeing that I didn’t know the correct torque procedure might have had some reason as to why it fell off. I was told that the proper way to torque is to back off the nut then retorque, but I wasn’t aware of that. Secondly, and this may not play too much into this, but the propeller was a new wooden propeller more specifically a left hand that aren’t in stock very often and was made 2 weeks before I bought it. Wooded propellers are lamented layers of wood that are kiln dried to reduce or remove moisture in the wood (So I have been told). I hangered my airplane in an open “T” hangar and the propeller faced the south while hangered and when the sun set it would just heat the propeller and there are some who think that may have shrunk the propeller just enough so that the six 5/16 bolts were ever so slightly loose. With all of that said the bolts that mounted the propeller (with a crush plate) to the flange. There are English size threads and metric size threads. I was using the smaller bolts that I had installed and uninstalled many times (the exact number I’m not sure but more that 10 times). I should have just bought the 8mm bolts and used those instead which of course I did when I bought the Warp drive propeller. I hope that I have answered most of the common questions I get. I’m truly grateful for all the comments and views that I get from you all. I have over 1,500 other videos from my Taylor craft BC12-D and my Cessna 140A. Please give them a look when you get time.
I want to thank all of you who have made comments and I want to apologize ahead of time for not answering them. I hope that posting this in the public section everyone will be able to view it and answer most of the common questions that I receive. This is a Rans S-10 LSA airplane that I built about 5 years ago. It took 650 hours to build and it has a Rotax 582. It was the first time I built an airplane and hopefully the last. The most common questions that I get is what the noise or vibration is in the video, why do I keep advancing the throttle, why didn’t I remove the airplane form the runaway and lastly why did the propellar come off. The vibration is simply the GoPro vibration against the canopy which has a round shape and I couldn’t find the exact GoPro mount to affix to the canopy so that sound is not really heard in the cockpit like you can hear it on the video. Yes, on the bottom right door near the latch you can see a small flapping of the Lexan but that doesnt make any sound what so ever. I kept advancing the throttle because the GoPro records at 30 frames per second and the propeller is moving so fast that the eye can’t see it when at cruise speed. So, when the prop fell off I thought I had another/different issue than a missing propellar. Why did I keep the airplane on the runway? I glided into B16 or Whiteford's airport in central NY. It’s a relatively small airport with a hard top and parallel grass strip. I had a radio and called an emergency and there was a parachute/jumping company there who helped me roll it back to the tarmac. There is little to no traffic at that airport and in less than 5 minutes I was moving the airplane. The actual video is almost an hour and you can see that video if you search for video (I’m looking for the full length and will post it here). Finally, why? First off it was pilot error or the mechanics error which was me. The guidelines for mounting a new prop is torque every hour of operation for the ensuing 5 hours (5 torques). However, after the 3rd hour there wasn’t any more torque that was needed. However, seeing that I didn’t know the correct torque procedure might have had some reason as to why it fell off. I was told that the proper way to torque is to back off the nut then retorque, but I wasn’t aware of that. Secondly, and this may not play too much into this, but the propeller was a new wooden propeller more specifically a left hand that aren’t in stock very often and was made 2 weeks before I bought it. Wooded propellers are lamented layers of wood that are kiln dried to reduce or remove moisture in the wood (So I have been told). I hangered my airplane in an open “T” hangar and the propeller faced the south while hangered and when the sun set it would just heat the propeller and there are some who think that may have shrunk the propeller just enough so that the six 5/16 bolts were ever so slightly loose. With all of that said the bolts that mounted the propeller (with a crush plate) to the flange. There are English size threads and metric size threads. I was using the smaller bolts that I had installed and uninstalled many times (the exact number I’m not sure but more that 10 times). I should have just bought the 8mm bolts and used those instead which of course I did when I bought the Warp drive propeller. I hope that I have answered most of the common questions I get. I’m truly grateful for all the comments and views that I get from you all. I have over 1,500 other videos from my Taylor craft BC12-D and my Cessna 140A. Please give them a look when you get time.
I actually did stall the plane about a year and a half later at a golf course as I was taking off from a very small grass strip that was very wet and the grass is very long it was my fault completely pilot air and the plane was ruined and I walked away with a crushed number six vertebrae in my neckit took me about six months to heal but after that, I’ve been fine. I can still fly ride roller coasters. I guess I had to say I was very lucky. Didn’t even spend the night in the hospital.