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  1. Teckair
    Weather looks bad.
  2. Teckair
    Not good 3 dead according to the ABC.
  3. Teckair
    I think it is low flyer.
  4. Teckair
    And then you fly low to the end of the beach where there is no where to go if the engine stops.
  5. Teckair
    OK no so one knows, when I was there over 20 years ago I remember it being very long, with plenty of room to safely land a light aircraft.
  6. Teckair
    Can anyone advise how long aeroplane beach is and what end the accident happened?
  7. Teckair
    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.
  8. Teckair
    As you must know on a grass strip there is rolling resistance to the wheels. We do not know what happened I just know what it looked like to me.
  9. Teckair
    At the point it tipped l would have thought full back stick and 25% power would have been about right not tail up and heaps of power.
  10. Teckair
    Then there is the P factor, someone has said the c of g is only just behind the uc how much hp? maybe 2000? Thrust line is well above the wheel friction on the ground.
  11. Teckair
    It is admirable people don't want to automatically blame the pilot but there are two videos with sound and you can hear the power being used before the aircraft has built up any real speed it could only ever end up that way.
  12. Teckair
    Going by the video I don't think that is correct, but even if that was true all the more reason to handle it with care with power and tail height. As for soft ground and flat tyres hopefully the guy did a preflight and checked the condition of the runway. I am bewildered as to why anybody would want make up excuses for the miss handling of that aircraft.
  13. Teckair
    Mmmmm don't think the Spitfire is a poor design anybody who thinks this is not pilot error doesn't understand what happened IMHO. The second video should eliminate any doubt.
  14. Teckair
    Not exactly a Spitfire pilot myself but tailwheel experience all the same. IMHO tail was up too high too soon too slow. It looked for all the world like this was the first time this guy had flown that plane. You can treat some tail draggers that way but not that one.
  15. Teckair
    I thought it was too slow for that much power. Yes you would think someone sitting in that seat would be capable of flying it.
  16. Teckair
    Don't know what went wrong there elevator looks neutral and then up maybe too much power to quickly. With those things you have to open the throttle slowly in stages to get some airflow over the control surfaces before full power.
  17. Teckair
    A friend of mine aquired a Sonerie kit when he saw how the wings were attached he abandoned the project.
  18. Teckair
    Some one said he bought the plane to do aerobatics does anybody know if they are rated for that? Some one also said they saw a wing fall off. 19 rego is not aerobatic.
  19. Teckair
    It can be done, pilots are not supposed to crash if their ASI stops working, I used to instruct from the back seat of drifters with no instruments. One thing for sure I would never have attempted what this bloke did.
  20. Teckair
    Wow they did well to get out of that.
  21. Teckair
    There are some who think powered parachutes are really safe but I think that might be wrong.
  22. Teckair
    I think its a fake also pretty risky landing though. A lot of people learnt to fly with no lessons in the early days and all that I saw flew better than that.
  23. Teckair
    Yes I find it a mystery as well and people blaming the building for the deaths seems wrong to me I thought it was going to crash anyway.
  24. Teckair
    Yes but this got well past that didn't it?
  25. Teckair
    No worries I know what you mean that does apply to our sort of flying. For city airports people are relying on engines not stopping or being able to continue on with one which is what should have happened with this sad event.
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