Dead stick take off, complete flight and landing.

[Ultralights]

yep, complete deadstick flight, including take off!

 

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Looks like a lot of fun.........................................................................Maj...

 

 

[.Evan.]

Crazy!

 

 

[Owi]

Yeah! The takeoff had me thinking he's going to prang right there. Good skill or crazy luck?

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

I'm sure he had sussed out that slope prior to doing what he has done, and I doubt if that's the first time he had done it, hence the video this time. Once he's off the slope it's all plain sailing down to the deadstick landing at the bottom.

 

Any plane should fly fine with the prop stopped, as you don't get all that messed up air all over your tail. Great spot to do it, very senic and suitable landing (and take-off) spots all along that river bank.....That pilot won't have any dramas if his engine stops unexpectedly somewhere, that's for sure.........................Maj...

 

 

[turboplanner]

He'd been doing that all day, look at all the other tracks, even at the landing point! Good to focus your judgement.

 

 

[kgwilson]

Great skills. Just like hang gliding but you can't carry the aircraft or run off the hill at the bottom just fire her up and away you go back to the top for another shot. I guess there must have been a good spot to land up there.

 

 

[Bandit12]

You would have to be pretty nervous the first time you pushed it over the edge!

 

 

[Spin]

Good find Ultralights, some pretty nifty aircraft handling involved there. Those first few seconds reminded me of learning to paraglide many years ago, galloping down a slowly increasing slope hoping not to trip on a grass tussock. That would probably be my major fear in attempting something like this, catching a wheel in a rut or similar, before you have sufficient airflow over the tail to allow some control. As I see it, the geometry of the raised tail must move the CofG closer to the main wheels than on level ground - hopefully not ahead though.

 

Incidently the aircraft is a Just Aircraft Highlander, http://www.justaircraft.com/page.php?9 , another in the general Avid Flyer, Kitfox, Skyfox mould.

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

That's correct on aircraft type spin..................................................................Maj...

 

 

[Spin]

Oooerrr, is that pat on the back a way of finding somewhere to slip the knife in.....

 

 

[Spin]

I got it, you'll find one rolling around in my post too