Lessons learned! Sitting at a road t-intersection navigating my aunt; clear road, called GO & ... we sat there. 'I thought you said WO'. Better safe than sorry. Changed calls to Proceed & Hold.

I heard the same tale told on BBC Radio Essex when a manager from London Stansted was interviewed. His story was that it happened at his airport and that the aircraft was on take off when the PF turned to the FE and said 'Cheer up'.

I wouldn't want to be using nosewheel steering at takeoff speed anyhow!

During a IF Takeoff in a PC-A in Pearce my student under the bag in the front seat engaged the nosewheel steering at about 58 kts trying to be smart in correcting back to the headings I was calling out. The aircraft rapidly pivoted 30deg left!.... I took control jumped on the brakes and and left two large black tire marks across 1/4 of the runway width as we departed the runway to the left, taking out an edge light on the way. I jumped a ditch and came to stop on the grass and then safed the ejection seats before shutting down. The PC9 seat was a 60/200 bang seat not a 0/0 rocket seat, if we were sitting on rockets seats would probably have pulled the handle for the both of us.

When we went back and walked over the tracks, could clearly see the big black tire marks across the runway and the dirt tracks in the grass, we skidded sideways between two concrete blocks before jumping the ditch (aprox 35kts with full backstick) and stopping.
Looking at the satellite view of 36R at YPEA and the gap between the concrete blocks of the arrestor cable system still makes me shiver.

Hmmm, few minor errors there. The PC9 had a 0/60 seat. Ground level, no downward vector and wings level. Minimum 60 knots. You could have pulled the handle but you’d have left the student behind. The command ejection system in the PC9 only worked from the back seat and as a QFI on an IF takeoff you would have been in the front seat.

Fair enough, it was 25 years ago :) 60kts was the min speed (I guess I said 200ft because that was my cutoff height to arrest a rate of descent before ejection with an engine out) and yep I was in the front seat. Isn't that strange, I guess I spent so much time in the rear seat teaching I just assumed that's where I was sitting.

[edit] I just remembered where I got the 200ft from, it was a presentation on the MK11 seat Martin Baker gave at Pearce, it was a 0/60 seat but inverted it was a 200/60 seat :)

Slezy9 - Speed2height may have got the exact deets slightly wrong - but the event itself was true to form. I was his flight commander. S2H was a rotor head in a past life so these event were not unexpected.

Did he pass the course and get his wings, or did he wash out?

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​​​​​​If I remember correctly (which is now debatable) he was a prior CPL holder that did well through GFPT and struggled on IF and washed out.

I understand the F18 requires its nosewheel steering rate set to low after taxing and failing to do so was the cause of a runway excursion across the arrestor blocks many years ago in Williamtown

We've only got 3 of the first batch of 7 "integrated". Deliveries of the remaining 14 to come. New canopy, seats and clean up the soot and she'll be right. ;)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f18...alia-1.5836504

I feel sorry for 53.
I wanted to throw a blanket over her!

Was that the 2016 one?

Any further insight into what happened here? All gone quiet...

I’d also like to know what caused the decision to eject. I’m sure that it was a sound judgment but was there a change in procedures following the Growler engine fire in Las Vegas.

Would also like to know if the jet has been repaired.

I'm not so sure about that, hence my interest! :}

Redacted report from Defence
 

Obtained by Senator Rex Patrick; reported on ABC web site

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-...ject/101131502

Primary cause was ”substandard adherence to checklist actions”

Thought the report on following sequence of events may be of interest.

Translation: He shat himself.

Is the Hornet so incapable of flying with the trim out-of-position that he was more worried about dealing with it, rather than simply taking the jet airborne and retrimming it in the air? OR is there more to it than just being out of trim?