Control Malfunction
Control malfunction
Right, hope this does not get moved to the end of the T/R line like yesterday...!
The event took place shortly after take off with AS 80 kts and accelerating.
The yaw was immediate and hard right. With no thought pattern, I had the cyclic full right and aft with full left pedal(!).
The aircraft was barely controllable, waffling around a desire to go full circle or beyond 90 degrees of bank.
I started a descent to a rice field and executed the school taught running landing with throttle cut just before touchdown. Well, the L-13 idles at 71% so when I cut the throttle, the machine moved from around 80 degrees yaw to 45 degrees yaw.
I reached over and hit the idle detent and closed the throttle completely. The aircraft yawed left just as the left skit touched down!
Nobody was on the cyclic at the time of touchdown.
Got hooked back later in the day.
16th Group safety officer decided that the door came off due to improper pre-flight so cancelled the broken wing award.
BTW, some local VC in a village nearby decided to fire a few rounds our way just to make things more interesting.
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.