Simviation Forum - Engine failure at my flight school

Feb 15^th, 2005 at 5:58pm

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One of your spanking new Da40's suffered an engine failure today, which lead to an emergency landing on an isolated field in the middle of nowhere.
Luckily no one was injured, but the "Star" will be out of service for a while.

Scary, I flew that bird just 2 weeks ago Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Feb 15^th, 2005 at 6:02pm

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at least everyones ok and the plane is still serviceable.

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Reply #2 - Feb 15^th, 2005 at 6:06pm

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Glad they're alright - one of our (rather expensive) aircraft diverted with a major fuel leak a little while ago...

... as they climbed out they spotted the 6"x6" hole in the port droptank Shocked

Seems to be the birdstrike season at the mo...

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Reply #3 - Feb 15^th, 2005 at 6:14pm

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A bird put a hole in a drop tank? let me guess Jag or tornado on one of their low level departures at high speed?

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Reply #4 - Feb 15^th, 2005 at 7:59pm

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what happened that caused that engine failure and landing?

Good thiing no one was hurt

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Reply #5 - Feb 15^th, 2005 at 8:58pm

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Man, the last engine failure at our school wasn't mechanical... a student pulled the mixture on my (ex) CFI while he was abeam the numbers on downwind. Scary stuff!

Good everyones ok Wink

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Reply #6 - Feb 15^th, 2005 at 9:04pm

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So you actually use the mixture knob...most of my friends in the USA always flies on rich, but that's mostly because they fly in California

Us diesel flyers can care less about that Wink

The cause of accident is still unkown btw.

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Reply #7 - Feb 16^th, 2005 at 12:08am

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Use the mixture knob here all the time... too often... as I fly here in the mountains. Though prior to landing, it should be set to rich.

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Reply #8 - Feb 16^th, 2005 at 8:23am

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Here's a picture taken by the newspaper

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Reply #9 - Feb 16^th, 2005 at 12:51pm

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Man, the last engine failure at our school wasn't mechanical... a student pulled the mixture on my (ex) CFI while he was abeam the numbers on downwind. Scary stuff!

Good everyones ok Wink

I heard of this happen first hand too...

In fact the engine failure drill on the Grob Tutor (RAF's elementary trainer) has just been changed. In "the old days" it was;

Throttle closed
Prop RPM low

Unfortunately, with the mixture lever being next to the prop lever (as normal), and with both being very small, they've now dropped the RPM low action after a couple of close shaves and an interesting landing with solo students (the interesting landing thankfully was a foreign stude from a rich nation, and he was ok)

Charlie

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Reply #10 - Feb 16^th, 2005 at 4:01pm

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Aye Nexus, we lean it an inch at altitude, and I just realised i forgot to set it to rich for one of my landings the last time I was up! (I did 7)

Oops! Lips Sealed

It's kind of hard to mistake the mixture for the throttle in a 172 (don't know bout the tutor) because you have to depress a button in order to pull it out for the mixture. Oh well, but I'll be you that student feels like an ass. Tongue

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Reply #11 - Feb 16^th, 2005 at 4:12pm

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It's kind of hard to mistake the mixture for the throttle in a 172 (don't know bout the tutor) because you have to depress a button in order to pull it out for the mixture. Oh well, but I'll be you that student feels like an ass. Tongue

Quite. I first learnt to fly on the C152, and the engine controls were mounted on the base of the panel (of course that had no prop control though!). In the Tutor they are on the centre console by the two pilots knees, slightly out of the pilot's peripheral vision...

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Reply #12 - Feb 16^th, 2005 at 7:36pm

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Aye Nexus, we lean it an inch at altitude, and I just realised i forgot to set it to rich for one of my landings the last time I was up! (I did 7)

Oops! Lips Sealed

It's kind of hard to mistake the mixture for the throttle in a 172 (don't know bout the tutor) because you have to depress a button in order to pull it out for the mixture. Oh well, but I'll be you that student feels like an ass. Tongue

Whose gonna know, just as long as your engine doesnt stall out its all good Grin

Cheers,
RB

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