Mid Air Collision In Carson City Area
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Just noticed that the NTSB prelim on this one is wonderfully verbose...
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...06X01297&key=1
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Minor ? damage
Any more 'minor' 
damage to the right wing , right engine (detaching from the fuselage), and nose/cockpit, and there would have been 'minor' fatalities.
Given the increase in use of personal aircraft, gliders, advertising blimps, etc, and increases in general and commercial aviation, I would think it wise for FAA to mandate transponders on mostly everything. There is too much going on in the cockpit for pilots to be worrying about mid-airs near major airports.
Hats off to the crew for holding it all together. A crew who gets the instrument panel in their laps and manages to land a plane safely are damn lucky to have survived.
damage to the right wing , right engine (detaching from the fuselage), and nose/cockpit, and there would have been 'minor' fatalities. Given the increase in use of personal aircraft, gliders, advertising blimps, etc, and increases in general and commercial aviation, I would think it wise for FAA to mandate transponders on mostly everything. There is too much going on in the cockpit for pilots to be worrying about mid-airs near major airports.
Hats off to the crew for holding it all together. A crew who gets the instrument panel in their laps and manages to land a plane safely are damn lucky to have survived.
Last edited by MNBluestater; 9th Sep 2006 at 05:05. Reason: clarify
The big problem with transponders in gliders and other a/c without a generator/alternator is the heavy current drain. A glider battery fits in your hand.
There's some 5000 Flarms installed in European gliders. They cost some 650 Euros and only require 52mA. http://www.flarm.com/product/index_en.html
This is a far more practical way to go for g/a than mode S transponders for everybody, especially considering how long it will be before mode S capable radars are put into operation -- 20 years or so.
There's some 5000 Flarms installed in European gliders. They cost some 650 Euros and only require 52mA. http://www.flarm.com/product/index_en.html
This is a far more practical way to go for g/a than mode S transponders for everybody, especially considering how long it will be before mode S capable radars are put into operation -- 20 years or so.
Well done to both pilots.
How much wing drag and pull to the right did the Hawker pilots experience? Without the radome and consequent airflow changes to pitot tubes, the airspeeds must have been amost useless.
It looks like combat damage.
Maybe there was a small hamlet near them named Midway, Nevada.
How much wing drag and pull to the right did the Hawker pilots experience? Without the radome and consequent airflow changes to pitot tubes, the airspeeds must have been amost useless.
It looks like combat damage.
Maybe there was a small hamlet near them named Midway, Nevada.
