View Full Version : ouch poor plane!
dingducky
29th Mar 2001, 05:40
i was sent these pics.
does anyone know the story???
http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_0.jpg
http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_1.jpg
http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_2.jpg
http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_3.jpg
http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_4.jpg
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
Stroppalot
29th Mar 2001, 15:52
..and when did Freddy Krueger start his PPL then?
Desk Driver
29th Mar 2001, 16:31
The morale is
"Look out of the b***dy window before engine start!"
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You fly em we'll fill em!
Mariner9
29th Mar 2001, 16:34
....and keep your feet on the b***dy brakes!
HugMonster
29th Mar 2001, 19:52
DD - morale? Is that high or low morale? :)
Either way, if someone could please post the engine rpm, we could all work out how fast he was taxying! :)
RCBailey
30th Mar 2001, 17:49
How fast "HE" was going..?....
Come on,....we all know it was a woman!, but in her defence (yes, with a 'C', I'm English)
she thought that knob handle thingy sticking out of the dashboard thingy was to hang her handbag on!
Luftwaffle
30th Mar 2001, 21:55
So much fuss. I was just sitting there, doing my run up in the Skyhawk when the Caravan backed right into me. I honked and flashed my lights, but to no avail. Stupid Caravan drivers never check their wing mirrors.
Personally I wouldn't hang my handbag from those knob thingies on the dash? It might swing and break my kneecap. I put it safely on the floor. There are foot pedals down there, but I never need to use them, as my engine works perfectly. Keeps turning even when there's a Caravan on the prop.
:)
Speedbird252
31st Mar 2001, 01:05
Nice registration on the Caravan - looks like o-falk. I bet thats what the bloke in the skyhawk was saying over and over.....loudly..........!
Speedbird252
1st Apr 2001, 00:41
So what do we reckon from the pictures? Low RPM, high speed impact? Or High RPM, low speed imapact?
Or a Caravan parked on a slope with the brakes off........?
Big slope or little slope?
Ha!! Who cares!! Nice photos though.....
Roadtrip
1st Apr 2001, 21:21
Damn! I knew I shouldn't have hand-proped that airplane without someone in the cockpit!
[This message has been edited by Roadtrip (edited 01 April 2001).]
dingducky
11th Apr 2001, 15:36
so no one knows what the story is then? http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/confused.gif
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
Ouch that's nasty ...... looks like high speed and high RPM !
What's with the plastic wrapped car in the maintenance hangar ? 8-) (or at least car like object from what is available on to see on the photo)
SpeedBird22
13th Apr 2001, 23:20
Could this be the little...ahem...'incident' at Elstree late last year??
If I remember correctly an instructor let his student fire a Cessna up while he went and finished his coffee. The student had the throttle set too high, didn't have the park brake on nor his feet on the toe-brakes and just panicked when he shot forward into the rear end of another aircraft.
Its a stab in the dark but looks like the same incident to me...
Never ever forget to brake,
SB22
Borg32
13th Apr 2001, 23:33
The next thing that wannabe pilot will be saying aboard an aircraft......
Would you like like tea or coffee Sir?