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kitfoxjunky(at)decisionla
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 Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:36 am Post subject: One for the dodo file.. |
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On the theme of "share the bad along with the good", perhaps you can reference this the next time you park your plane.
Went to a flyin on the weekend. Air Canada Pilot has a pig roast every year at his place in Southwestern Ontario. Pilots have to hop passengers for their meal. Weather was excellent. I logged about 3.5 hrs that day.
The runway did not have a lot of parking area, so when we took a break we parked the planes well back from the takeoff point on the grass strip.. near the threshold. I did not like the layout, as we were on a slight downslope. I moved my tail perpendicular to the runway..pointing out into a bean field. I did not have chocks or stakes to tie it down, but I figured it was safe.The wind was calm. I was only going to be gone for a few minutes before I started hopping rides again. We were well back of the other airplanes.
Wouldn't you know it...somone came into the parking area and when turning around blasted everyone with prop wash. I would never have thought that the thrust could have that kind of power. My plane weather cocked, then rolled backwards thru the bean field and about 50 yards down the hill, with nobody in it. I heard about it on my handheld while I was having something to eat. Walking up to the plane I could not see anything but the tracks thru the bean field disappearing down the hill. As I got closer, I could see the plane was on a funny angle up against some trees in a ditch at the bottom of the hill with a crowd around it. I figured it was totalled. Turned out the tailwheel caught a small sapling, and it bent over and cushioned the impact. There was no damage at all, other than a slight distortion to the leaf spring on the tail. It missed the wing of my friend's 170 by inches on it way past. Could have been a disaster, with two planes damaged.
The lesson...always tie it down.
Gary Walsh
KF IV Anphib (soon) 912S
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Michel
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: One for the dodo file.. |
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On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:31 PM, kitfoxjunky wrote:
| Quote: | I figured it was totalled. Turned out the tailwheel caught a small
sapling, and it bent over and cushioned the impact.
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Good to hear it went fine, Gary. If you ever have a photo of your
distorted leaf spring, so that we can all see what happens when unusual
forces are exerted on our aircraft. Thanks.
Cheers,
Michel
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:08 am Post subject: Re: One for the dodo file.. |
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I would like to know what the person did that created the mess, was he an ahole about it.
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kitfoxjunky(at)decisionla
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:06 am Post subject: One for the dodo file.. |
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He came over and appologized. If I had to lay any blame..it would be on myself for not taking care to secure the aircraft. He was flying a 172 out of an 1800 ft strip. He was just trying to get all the runway he could.
Gary Walsh
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