Ouch! Foxbat Crash

[fly_tornado]

Its hard to know what happened in an accident with complete certainty, the pilot that makes the mistake rarely is aware of the situation until its almost over.

 

 

[David Isaac]

A picture tells a thousand words.

 

Those photographs are only 10ths of a second apart. In the first picture the right flaperon is definitely down (and as Iggy stated and what I know from experience they are very effective at low speed) with the right wing up and the left wing already substantially down, what else would you expect. There is no sign of right stick input and I can't see too much elevator either.

 

If he was that slow on approach and the engine had failed there is no way a Rotax would windmill, hell even an 0-200 would stop windmilling at that speed, I would say the engine was at idle power at least.

 

 

[Guest rocketdriver]

Agreed David, but even a Rotax will take a few blades to actually stop rotating. Having said that, you could be right as the width of the blur for each blade is roughly the same in each frame. Perhaps the rotational inertia of a Rotax is low and the idle torque equally so, compared to my EA 81. ....... I agree about the aileron and elevator .. noticed that too.

 

FLy, for me I reckon it took me a lot longer to work it all out ... about 2 weeks actually ..... Part of it was coming to terms with myself. Only after getting over the fact that there were elements of pilot error in my accident was I able to recognise what really happened. In fact I needed to see details of the u/c failure (what failed first) in order to deduce the sequence of events.

 

cheers

 

RD

 

 

[bilby54]

I like your three word comment Dazza!! Wish I could write it in my student training manual

 

Definitely seen it done better