Plane crash at Jamestown S.A.

[Mr Milk]

Hey 6969.

I wonder if you ARE a few of the above posters!
i know your "cousin" mr 7700 posted under a few different names and maybe you, he and xxx are one and the same.

just healty speculation before everyone jumps down my throat

[Ratshit]

I wonder if you ARE a few of the above posters!

Geez, don't ya just hate that!

Rat

PS: I suspect 6969 = FTCS (no not a typo)!

[VH-XXX]

Mr. Milk, there is only 1 VH-XXX. He is I. I am he. He has no cousins here on Prune. VH-XXX knows nobody else on here personally!

Back to topic. After hopping in a Jab yesterday and pointing it at the sky with full flap applied I can confirm that it did what any aircraft would - the expected. It pointed at the sky and then at the ground. If that's what happened only a few feet up it would have put me off flying for a while.

[Jabawocky]

Mr. Milk

I think knowing who many of the posters here are, that you are way off the mark. So lets get back to the Lucky P prang.

J

[drunkensailor]

I have a feeling Man Milk is infact Rat****

[Ultralights]

who cares who knows who,
after looking at the damage, i cant believe the aircraft is flying again! i have been deciding on an aircraft to buy, and it looks like the J230/170 is the way to go, i have seen a few smashed up jabs now, and in every case, the pilot/pax have been relatively unhurt.
basic, powerful, reliable, fast, and built like the proverbial brick sh1thouse, and aussie made to boot!

how many GA aircraft would be flying in 6 weeks after a crash like this?

[the wizard of auz]

Beware the whilly whilly - they can bite!

I will second that. C208 at 3800kg and in the approach configuration with 20Deg flap, 800ftlbs torque and 100knots. I flew into a willy willy and came as close to crashing an airplane as I ever have. the aircraft stalled one wing, dropped sharply to the left and sunk at a rate that caught me by surprise, followed by a vertical ascent at nearly 2000fpm for a couple of seconds, then a sharp descent at nearly 4000fpm. I used power right up until I was torque limited to arrest the descent, and thank god to this day I had 100 feet left between me and the ground when it all ended. If I had of been closer to the ground, it would have ended in tears. (a few of the pax were close as it was).
I have been mustering for quite a few hours and years, and all over the country in almost every condition I could possibly imagine and have flown through hundreds of Willy willys, Micro bursts, under thunderstorms while running for home, and have never experienced anything like that before......or since.
I think the AoA on the left wing was exceeded due to the air coming from directly underneath the wing in the localized airflow in the willy and stalled, then as the disturbance moved along the aircraft, it moved to a full down draft, Etc. I think it was moving from a left quartering tail area when I hit it and it moved with me for a while. localized airflow did all sorts of things as well as getting monstrous sink in a more wider area.
They certainly can bite, and I stay as far away from them as I can now. I had my big scare. I certainly wouldn't like to have encountered anything like that in a Jab.