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- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Attitude Indicator vs Artificial Horizon
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6185
Re: Attitude Indicator vs Artificial Horizon
Let's be careful here about what we're talking about. If I got this right - and I'm a bit new at this: In general, an AI and AH indicate in the same manner when it comes to pitch and roll. The thing about "they work opposite in pitch" only applies to very specific odd instruments that are no longer ...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: C-GLVE Sukhoi Su-26M crash in Collingwood
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1827
Re: C-GLVE Sukhoi Su-26M crash in Collingwood
Pilot Ryan Chapman posted about a week back: The Sukhoi is officially a Canadian aircraft!! After 4 long months, GLVE is officially on the Canadian registry and is now Canadian legal. Now it’s time to practice and prepare for the worlds! That's for the World Advanced Aerobatic Championships in Reno,...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 2:07 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Co-pilot jumps out of the aircraft while on approach during an emergency landing...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4429
Re: Co-pilot jumps out of the aircraft while on approach during an emergency landing...
Do pilots dropping skydivers have to wear a parachute in the US? Not always required. Commonly used in smaller planes, less so in bigger ones. Similar in Canada. I'm not absolutely sure of the rules but this seems to be the case: Parachute not required by FAA. Some STC's or 337's or what have you d...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:35 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Sky Diving At or Near Airports
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2045
Re: Sky Diving At or Near Airports
I'm late to this discussion, but anyway. Yes a good dropzone will announce both when they are close to jumping -- e.g., a roughly 2 minute to jump call, roughly when they are turning onto the jump run. A jump pilot certainly won't know when all jumpers are down, and can't be trying to spot them all ...
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:31 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Parachute landing (not a Cirrus)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1465
Re: Parachute landing (not a Cirrus)
I very certainly object to the notion of a pilot overflying an urban area, and then pulling the 'chute, and "throwing the airplane out of the sky"! or A destroyed house could easily have led to a ban on parachute deployments, or at the least result in even more airspace restrictions. WTF? This stuf...
- Sun Apr 10, 2022 6:28 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Crash near Brantford?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3594
Re: Crash near Brantford?
I'm surprised the pilot is deceased. The cockpit looks fairly well preserved. It is a bit hard to tell from the head-on photo... but it looks to me like the engine compartment may have been pushed well back towards the cockpit area. The airplane's right wing has had a pretty hard smack on the leadi...
- Sat Mar 26, 2022 6:58 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Grass cutter killed by Yak in Quebec
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5566
Re: Grass cutter killed by Yak in Quebec
A couple more comments: Digits wrote: "The PPR factor seems a bit of a red herring in this accident. Even if the guy would have called the airport manager and got permission, I doubt the grass cutter would have been informed." Agreed in terms of the accident itself, given that the grass cutter was N...
- Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:35 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: How to interpret PPR?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2352
How to interpret PPR?
I'm bringing this up as I realize that I and some other pilots have a very different interpretation of PPR than the TSB seems to have. It came up in the report recently published about the grass cutter being killed by a landing aircraft at the St Esprit, Qu airfield / drop zone. The pilot (who also ...
- Sat Mar 19, 2022 7:20 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Grass cutter killed by Yak in Quebec
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5566
Re: Grass cutter killed by Yak in Quebec
The report has been released. To save typing time, I'll just repost the summary that I wrote on a skydiving site. Just my interpretation, YMMV. I think I'll ask in the General forum what other's view of the meaning or definition of "PPR" is -- as the TSB doesn't realize that pilots might have a very...
- Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:09 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: VIDEO: Testing the urge of attempting the Impossible Turn after Engine failure on takeoff
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4555
Re: VIDEO: Testing the urge of attempting the Impossible Turn after Engine failure on takeoff
Any idea why they decided on 45 degree bank? They seem to play with other variables, but the 45 degree bank for the turn seems fixed. Is there some reasoning that makes this the most efficient bank angle? Various aerodynamics calculations established that pretty clearly, as best I can tell. For exa...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:06 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Check That Control Stick Attachment
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1393
Re: Check That Control Stick Attachment
Regarding the side-topic of Decathlon "things to check": The front seatback has indeed collapsed backwards before. Long ago I remember seeing a Decathlon on the front cover of Sport Aerobatics, flown by that year's US Sportsman level National Champion, Dick Lewis. The next year, 1988, the front seat...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:28 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Al Rubin Has Departed the Fix...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1398
Re: Al Rubin Has Departed the Fix...
An old 2014 Toronto Star article on Al and Markham airport (NU8) is still online: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/11/21/flights_of_fancy_at_markham_airport_a_former_cold_war_pilots_big_plans.html (If the paywall stops you after looking at too many Toronto Star pages, turn off javascript and re...
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:04 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Soft ground grabs another Cessna
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8714
Re: Soft ground grabs another Cessna
SWOOP (Southwestern Ontario Organization Of Parachutists) is just regular dropzone, when it comes to its activities. It has been around since, well, 1979 it seems from that previous link to gov't data on corporations. At Grand Bend originally, but moved to Dundas (north of Hamilton) probably 20+ yea...
- Mon May 18, 2020 7:20 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Snowbird crash in CYKA
- Replies: 435
- Views: 53749
Re: Snowbird crash in CYKA
So they say it is a 0 alt - 60 kts minimum seat, I read above. That's fine when travelling level and the ejection seat can give you a couple hundred feet of extra altitude, plus some extra forward speed, giving time and airspeed to help deploy the parachute. In this accident, clearly the velocity ve...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:56 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Piper Cherokee Lands on Quebec Autoroute
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4623
Re: Piper Cherokee Lands on Quebec Autoroute
The Ontario Highway Traffic Act makes no provisions for common sense, capitalized or not Looking at the Ontario Highway Traffic act, as was linked to above, I can see your statement makes some sense. Part of the pulling over for emergency vehicles stuff says, "shall immediately bring such vehicle t...
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:10 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: One of the best accident reports I've ever read
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2795
Re: One of the best accident reports I've ever read
I think the 140 knots was while under control in a moderately descending turn, before control was lost and the plane overbanked and dove steeply. Anyway the report conclusions seem reasonable if a bit messily stated. (@ PilotDAR: Sounds sporty, doing aft CofG Caravan spins! I've only had the pleasur...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:04 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: One of the best accident reports I've ever read
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2795
Re: One of the best accident reports I've ever read
Hmm, I guess it is a lot of detail for a lighter aircraft with just pilot and one pax on board. They did their homework on figuring out aircraft speeds and descent rates and so on as the loss of control happened. Still, sometimes things get so wordy that it is hard to pull out the relevant info. I t...
- Mon Jul 01, 2019 12:16 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Rock your wings - on the preflight inspection
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2434
Re: Rock your wings - on the preflight inspection
my father found a large screw driver where the upper strut to wing bolt should be. I remember a Canadian incident report that was similar. It was on some light aircraft, can't recall if it was some advanced ultralight or Aeronca Champ style plane, but after some rigging work, a circuit was flown wi...
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 7:42 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Hawaii Twin Skydive Accident, 11 dead.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4396
Re: Hawaii Twin Skydive Accident, 11 dead.
Link to accident report where the same aircraft lost one horizontal tail unit: https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20160724X01920&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=LA Photo from a skydiving source: 2117566137_ScreenShot2019-06-22at1_41_27PM.png.e0b8facefce748e0bfe395c3469cbee6....
- Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:17 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Hawaii Twin Skydive Accident, 11 dead.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4396
Re: Hawaii Twin Skydive Accident, 11 dead.
In the old days, jump operations (US & Canada) sometimes were a lot more about just piling 'em into the plane. As long as you could clear the trees! Tons of stories like that among skydivers of the '60s, '70s, and even somewhat into the '80s. In the last couple decades things have gotten a lot bette...