DHC-2 Crash - Northern BC
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Re: DHC-2 Crash - Northern BC
I don't mean a "oh chit" last minute climb, I'm talking picking a cruise altitude that worked for the real estate he was planning on flying over and climbing to that altitude on his INITIAL takeoff and climb.
And I don't believe for a second that beaver was hitting its service ceiling at a few thousand feel MSL lol
And I don't believe for a second that beaver was hitting its service ceiling at a few thousand feel MSL lol
Re: DHC-2 Crash - Northern BC
Setting climb flap and adding power= great things in a Beaver. It's sad to see guys living out their dreams ending like this.
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Re: DHC-2 Crash - Northern BC
A friend with a schwack of time on Beavers told me that when they are slow and heavy, that you have to chose between climbing OR banking, they won't do both. He said he'd been in numerous cases where more than a few degrees of bank required a descent to stay flying. Just because you can get off the water doesn't mean you can manoeuvre so you really need to know what's ahead of you and have a plan before you get there. Sad.
Re: DHC-2 Crash - Northern BC
Is that when operating within its W+B?co-joe wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:32 pm A friend with a schwack of time on Beavers told me that when they are slow and heavy, that you have to chose between climbing OR banking, they won't do both. He said he'd been in numerous cases where more than a few degrees of bank required a descent to stay flying. Just because you can get off the water doesn't mean you can manoeuvre so you really need to know what's ahead of you and have a plan before you get there. Sad.
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Re: DHC-2 Crash - Northern BC
This one was well out of W&B as well. I don't know beavers all that well, but 700lbs overweight would be about 150% of the allowable payload, would it not? Its a significant deviation from whats allowed. I could totally see it struggling to climb in those conditions, which could be why he never reduced it from climb power.
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