It came out well... And it's a pretty good save, and awesome video. However, there was a bit of luck involved in that landing - AND he should have used more left rudder and less left aileron to make that final turn flatter. The luck part is if that wing had snagged then the whole thing was going to cartwheel right into the two guys! The wing struck the ground first. I know I sound like the typical comment troll but I have my own experience - thousands of flights, not a lot by the standards of many but hey - I can do a flat rudder turn on approach without thinking about it. BigWheel I bet you could too. Especially on a big bird like that and with such a big slab of rudder. They flat turn so nice, it's a fun part of flying an Extra or Ultimate like that. What am I saying, I probably would have balled it up. Ah well.
Sweet landing! Wow! Not to mention, the controls are backwards while you had to make the last minute turn so it wouldn't hit the vehicles! The wing tip just glanced the ground. Beautiful.
It also goes to show how fast some large scale rc planes are traveling, even in a glide, let alone under power doing aerobatics. Obviously you don’t won’t to be hit by one of these while in flight.
4:10 Beautiful large airplane! I think RC planes really do need to be that big, otherwise you can hardly see them in the sky and it must be hard to see what attitude they're in while flying them. Nice flying too! I can imagine it must be hard to tell what sort of glide you can maintain after the engine died, since you can't "feel" the turbulence and lift changes that signal the onset of a stall like you can in a real aircraft.
Poly Hexamethyl that’s not entirely true. I’ve flown both RC planes and full scale Cessna’s. You can “feel” a stall in an RC when the plane starts to act sluggish to your control inputs. It’s very similar. Please don’t comment about things just because you “think you know what you’re talking about”.
You can't see his throttle movements... how do you know the engine was acting up at all? Do you have a lot of experience with this plane, engine combo? A long history of logs of flight data? Maybe he was testing a new fuel system and just discovered that this maneuver starved the engine... You are making presumptuous statements. What I know is this plane costs a lot to build and/or replace. The pilot looks very proficient. I don't think he is ignorant or willingly risked a plane that someone has spent a LOT of hours on. Go critique someone in your neighborhood, out where they can tell you to piss off and smack you if you keep running your mouth.
Erykah Blue you misinterpret me, I'm trying to stop the BS. No drama here. I typed a simple comment and out pop the keyboard engineers to turn it into an episode of Jerry Springer. This guy has a PhD in understanding an engine via headphones, apparently. He has "a fair share of experience with bigger and smaller gasoline engines, both 2 and 4 strokes"... like 90% of Americans who own boats, ATV's, and mow their lawns. RC planes can have issues getting fuel during acrobatics, but sometimes only at certain RPM's. With a ton of experience in this type of stuff there was nothing that was a definitive 'uh-oh' sound to me, but I didn't have my hands on the sticks. I didn't come here to get into this, though. I came to watch a video and I ended up calling out Dr. Headphones.
You are lucky ....I am 73 years old.....with the help of my father ....I had build a biplan....when I was 17 years old......at the starting of the engine it took fire.....and KAPUT..the plane ..completely cramé.
Just about the right amount of time for a vacuum in fuel cell, vent line plugged? And that’s why we need spotters. Very lucky only a few people were there.
Funny thing is, I've never had a dead stick landing where I could get back to the runway that wasn't a really nice landing. I think it has something to do with the fact that you don't have time to think or doubt, muscle memory comes to life, the brain and nerves leave the equation and you just land the plane. I've always been more jittery after a dead stick landing and strangely calm during one. Anyone else ever notice this peculiarity?
The further I am from the runway, the higher I fly so I can always glide back. Barely made once on my T-34 Jet when the ESC smoked and ran off the end breaking out the nose gear, but that's been the worst of my dead stick landings. Oh,, One didn't make it back. My Lanceair ES stalled right after take off and landed in the desert. Need to repair all landing gear on that one still.
Yeah, there's something about a deadstick where you just do what you gotta do knowing there's no go arounds. And you're right, it's usually a nice greased in landing for some reason..
Yeah the landing is usually nothing to worry about, the worst part of it all is getting on the ground and wondering WHY it happened and if it’s gonna happen again.
I start off two decades ago with some of the early electrics before lipo and brushless were mainstream. We were building our own battery packs with nimh cells. Since you couldn't just refuel and fly again you tried to get every last minute out of your flight which meant flying until the esc low voltage cutoff killed your motor. So just about every flight was a dead stick landing. Turns out that was very helpful training when I moved to glow and gas planes. Always nice smooth emergency landings when the engines went silent. You really get a feeling for trading altitude for speed or even pulling wide to bleed off speed if necessary.
@@DzordzikkMotor je chycený za předek, kde je ložisko, bylo to hodně natěsno a jak se motor zahřál a roztáhl, to upevnění tlačilo na to přední ložisko, až se úplně "utáhlo" a motor se zastavil.
