ave8rr Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Safe Landing after reported "Suspected" engine failure near Bundaberg. UPDATE: Bundy pilot praised for landing crashing plane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan3111 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Looks like a jab having a graze in a paddock . I hear they give a 500 hour warrranty on a new aircraft covers engine as well now . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEM Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Looks like J430 VH-DFR on the news photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSCBD Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 To correct fake news. It was a well controlled forced landing - not a Crash Landing - the media need to learn the difference. Glad all OK. . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLA82 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 You can't fake the fact yet another jabidoo has been "forced to do a outlanding" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 The bloke obviously saw just one lonely paddock, that was lacking a Jab engine! Glad to hear the forced landing was successful. 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpacro Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Mu guess is that Ian wouldn't have a Jab engine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Australia's most popular glider. 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planesmaker Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Not far to go for repairs! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shafs64 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 let the jab bashing begin. Sorry to late Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elon Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 News is this aircraft has a Camit engine not a Jab engine. VH Experimental category. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 News is this aircraft has a Camit engine not a Jab engine. VH Experimental category. Does the news say what failed? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teckair Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 I was impressed it stayed up the right way and the nose wheel appeared to not collapse considering how rough the paddock appeared to be. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalph Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 VH-DFR is registered as a Robinson Helicopter VH-OFR perhaps? That rego is shown on the register as a QLD I see that that the Jab knockers are maintaining their support for the sport with their usual style and flair. (Sigh) 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Page Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Just a curly one ------ Seeing it is a Camit how is the engine going to be repaired? KP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalph Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Kinda depends on what caused the outlanding Keith. Could be a simple as putting fuel in the tanks. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Perhaps I missed something, but what information supports the idea that it was a CAMit engine? However, in the case it WAS a CAMit engine, in response to the query about repairs, anybody with knowledge of CAMit engines as distinct from Jabiru engines should know that the CAMit engine was specifically and deliberately produced to be 'backwards-compatible' with Jabiru engines, so that spares back-up was available. This was a decision by Ian Bent, to provide a level of back-up for his customers just in case CAMit had future problems with maintaining its support. 'Backwards-compatibility' is not a silly concept: those who understand the development of Microsoft OS will know what it means. Owners of Apple products will also know what it means when 'backwards-compatibility' is ignored: throwing away your hardware. That decision constrained CAMit from producing the engine it really wanted to make - and had already manufactured for test purposes - a far superior engine, in fact. Ian Bent's ethics are such that he would not put out on the market an engine that did not have: a) undergone a certified test regime, and b) for which he could not guarantee a level of manufacturer support commensurate with the investment that his customers would have to make. You might like to contrast that with the situation that the buyers of Diamond aircraft with the experimental diesel engine have had to face... grounded with no way forward in sight. The demise of CAMit from the Australian aircraft manufacturing scene is a loss that only those with the full knowledge will understand. Snide and carping comments do not help this country to progress in its development of a Recreational aircraft manufacturing capability. 3 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 You could have been involved with the Cessna 162 and have little options too. Funny how I've never been particularly worried about crashing/dying when I'm in a jabiru. Nev 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetjr Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Just a curly one ------ Seeing it is a Camit how is the engine going to be repaired?KP Anything but the latest gen 4 Jabiru would have similar questions, plenty of parts no longer available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ave8rr Posted June 19, 2017 Author Share Posted June 19, 2017 Anything but the latest gen 4 Jabiru would have similar questions, plenty of parts no longer available So Rather than trying to overhaul an early Jab engine, it would be wise to go with the new gen 4 engine?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetjr Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Cynically Id suggest that was Jabiru plan all along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalph Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Thanks Oscar for setting us straight re backwards compatibility of the CAE engineering and mods. It's pretty obvious when you think about it but it helps to have it clearly enunciated for those of us who haven't clearly thought it through. I take issue with your totally unwarranted promotion of Microsoft products over Apple though. There are enough partisans here with the bike vs cars; plastic vs rag & tube; Holden vs Ford; Jabiru vs anything else and RAAus vs ELAA, without you introducing Apple vs 20th century computing technology. What were you thinking man!? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 According to the believers in at least one popular deity, it was an Apple that bought the very first man down... so there's history there... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Thanks Oscar for setting us straight re backwards compatibility of the CAE engineering and mods. It's pretty obvious when you think about it but it helps to have it clearly enunciated for those of us who haven't clearly thought it through.I take issue with your totally unwarranted promotion of Microsoft products over Apple though. There are enough partisans here with the bike vs cars; plastic vs rag & tube; Holden vs Ford; Jabiru vs anything else and RAAus vs ELAA, without you introducing Apple vs 20th century computing technology. What were you thinking man!? There's an off topic forum where you can go your hardest on subjects like that now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 How do you know that parts are not available for older than Gen 4 engines. I was down in Bundy a week ago and they had the parts I needed for an old 2200 engine. In stock, no waiting. It seems a long wjile since we heard of a Jab going down and in that time there have been Rotax forced landings as well as other makes. What is the great difference between Jab and Camit engines? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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