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I didn't find another one like this, maybe jammed yoke in pitch, but you can use the trim opposite way if your elevator is jammed, can you?

Andrew, have you got all the emergency response checklists for your airplane memorized? And understand completely why each and every step is there? Those checklists are there since the situations you would be responding to are the most likely kind of emergencies you might encounter with that aircraft type.

Sometimes, playing the "what if" game can get to be counterproductive as the imagined scenarios are so far from likely that they can seem a bit silly. It's good to be thinking and considering more unusual possibilities, as an inquisitive mind is a learning mind. But make sure you have the necessary stuff nailed before you get too much in the fringes.

Not good if the trim has no effect in a jammed elevator, what about power?

Not good if the trim has no effect in a jammed elevator, what about power?

However, I have yet to read an accident or incident report about control seizures that could've been prevented with a good walk around.

In that case you tie a rope to your passenger and the other end to a hand strap. Then you get the pax to jump out of the plane so that he gets dragged behind the plane in the slipstream. Once he reaches the horizontal stabilizer you get him to kick the crap out of it, thereby loosening the jammed elevator. Once complete he climbs hand over hand back to the door...except on his way back the strap securing the other end of the rope breaks loose and you have to cut the rope and have your pax fall to his death to save the plane.

At least it worked in the movie.

Thank you WJ733! You mean using a PC flight simulator, right? Which flight simulator do you recommend? I had x-plane few years ago but it wasn't really that close to match real life aircraft behaviour in a situation like that.

Well, on first blush I am dissapointed, as from the thread title I was hoping to find a solution to the continuing problem I have with removing the strawberry jam from the yoke.

Strawberry... Only one man would do this to me...

The original poster is a 10 hr PPL. He should be concentrating on building the foundation flying skills not obsessing about the 00.1 % percent emergencies.

There have been some examples listed above, but the one that immediately comes to my mind is the C-152 spin accident west of Montreal out of Les Cedres airport in 1998. The instructor and student were practicing spins when the rudder became jammed due to a problem with the rudder stop. Sadly the they did not recover and crashed into a lake. The student evacuated but the instructor did not make it. After the investigation an AD was issued with respect to the rudder stops.

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the airplane can be recovered from a spin even with the rudder stuck hard over and I have done it in a C 150 Aerobat.

I know of several occasions, that due to poor maintenance,
light single Cessnas have experienced complete yoke failures.
A bolt falls out - something like that. No aileron, no elevator.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it. Check the SDR's.

That is an emergency I give to experienced pilots who have
no problem with a PFL. You can fly the aircraft with power,
trim and rudders, but it takes some practice. The flare won't
be pretty at first.


column failure mode in a Cessna - no ailerons, no elevator -
Yes, you can actually fly (and land) a Cessna with only
the throttle, trim and doors. You probably won't be able
to do that trick later in your career when you fly an Airbus
or Boeing, but the point is to think and figure out
a way to live.

It happened to my friend...twice...He picked up his C-172M from the shop after an annual. On the way home, which was 110 nm from the shop, the yoke came free, with no ailerons, or elevator. he was alone in the plane, and almost panicked. After a while, he realized that the plane was still flying. Slowly, he got his cool back, and started to experiment with the pedals and the throttle. He realized that he would not die, but could attemp at landing the plane. So he gently turned back, and landed at the field he had taken off from, to get it fixed.
They fixed the plane, and he got back home, and told us about his freightening experience. He told us he felt the hair on his head go straight up, from the fright. The AME apologized, but gave him nothing in form of a rebate for a poor job done.
The following week, on his way to Montreal, the same thing happened. He got so upset that he called an emergency, so that AME would be caught...
It appears that sometimes the two tubes of the control column are not fixed properly, and the locking bolt is inserted at the end of the tube, rather than through the two holes. The tubes then slowly slip out of each other, during flight.
After his ordeal, I practised a few times, and the last time at night, flying hands off, except for the throttle, and landed without problems...

Why didn't he just use the yoke on the right side ?