Rm.
That happened on my first solo circuit, had to look twice at it, I was on the downwind leg and my first thought was O SH-T, then nothing else to suggest something bad was happening so I called
on the radio to advise and then put it in the nearest corner of the airfield and waited to see who would be the first to reach me, the
firecrew or my instructor who was by then very white. When I looked back at the light the bloody thing had gone off, so I had to
try and make my instructor believe me, he climbed in and tried to coax it back on low level but to no avail so we called it a day. To say I was relieved when a couple days later I was told by my instructor that the light had come on again when another Instructor was in the local area and that he managed to get back safely would be an understatement. This time they did something about it and found it was ready to let go so a new main gearbox was fitted. I was training at Elstree at the time and was very impressed with the way the guy on the other end of the radio handled it, it was very reassuring indeed. Since then no other problems.
L N.
BFN.
Last edited by LOOSE NUT; 11th June 2002 at 00:42.