Aircraft incident at Shepparton
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/275187
RA registered Arion Lightning
A light plane crashed under unknown circumstances at Shepparton Airport. The pilot survived the crash.
RA registered Arion Lightning
A light plane crashed under unknown circumstances at Shepparton Airport. The pilot survived the crash.
Golly, all prop blades missing by the looks, with hub remaining.
A light plane crashed under unknown circumstances at Shepparton Airport.
Looks like the engine was well and truly delivering power. They can be a handful those beauties, plenty have had incidents.
Looks like the engine was well and truly delivering power. They can be a handful those beauties, plenty have had incidents.
I was told it was caused by the pilot being a little too aggressive on back-stick on takeoff.
The ATSB did a report on a Glasair that came to grief in Brisbane many years ago. what they found is that private pilots who have been flying Cessnas and Pipers for most of their life splash out and get themselves a high performance machine and are suddenly in a world of aviation they are not used to. Light control inputs and high stall speeds. Maybe some money spent on additional training to come to terms with the differences would be well spent. A bit like the MU-2. Once private pilots did the FS course on them the accident rate came down.
Thanks LB for the pedantic contribution but whether its a Lancair or Glasair they are both a lot higher performance than most PPLs are used to and can cope with, after a couple of hundred hours flying America's finest. I would be interested on your thoughts if you have flown something in that category.
You are evidently unaware of the relatively benign and predictable low speed handling of the Glasair design compared with the Lancair. Glasairs are fast and will get you lost in a hurry, but they don't stall, spin, crash and burn at the typical circuit speeds of the 'average GA aircraft'. The Lancair involved in the incident to which you referred didn't spin into the ground because it was going too fast.
The Lancair involved in the incident to which you referred didn't spin into the ground because it was going too fast.
The report into the fatal accident involving the Lancair included this information and is not type specific but refers to the general classification of amateur built aircraft:
In 1997, following a series of investigations of accidents involving amateur-built experimental aircraft, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued
several related safety recommendations12. The NTSB stated that ‘some accidents may be related to inadequate flight training by pilots who … transition into
amateur-built aircraft, which have flight characteristics that are unfamiliar to them’. The safety recommendation letter also included the following comments:
The [NTSB] recognizes that the vast majority of pilots learn to fly in typecertificated aircraft, which have been tested and demonstrated to have
stability, controllability, and performance characteristics that fall within a defined envelope. Further, after their training, most pilots continue to operate
type-certificated airplanes, which comprise most of the general aviation fleet. Consequently, it may be difficult for them to transition to many amateur-built
aircraft, which may have flight characteristics that fall outside the familiar envelope of type-certificated aircraft, without the benefit of transition training.
…
The [NTSB] concludes that type-specific flight training is critical for pilots transitioning into amateur-built experimental aircraft. …new owners who
acquire amateur-built experimental aircraft in the secondary marketplace should have the opportunity to receive transition training, unless their prior
flight experience makes it unnecessary.
several related safety recommendations12. The NTSB stated that ‘some accidents may be related to inadequate flight training by pilots who … transition into
amateur-built aircraft, which have flight characteristics that are unfamiliar to them’. The safety recommendation letter also included the following comments:
The [NTSB] recognizes that the vast majority of pilots learn to fly in typecertificated aircraft, which have been tested and demonstrated to have
stability, controllability, and performance characteristics that fall within a defined envelope. Further, after their training, most pilots continue to operate
type-certificated airplanes, which comprise most of the general aviation fleet. Consequently, it may be difficult for them to transition to many amateur-built
aircraft, which may have flight characteristics that fall outside the familiar envelope of type-certificated aircraft, without the benefit of transition training.
…
The [NTSB] concludes that type-specific flight training is critical for pilots transitioning into amateur-built experimental aircraft. …new owners who
acquire amateur-built experimental aircraft in the secondary marketplace should have the opportunity to receive transition training, unless their prior
flight experience makes it unnecessary.
The relatively recent Lancair crash at Shepparton comes to mind based on the theme mentioned above.
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I gave up flying at 60, whats he thinking?
So what's your point?
LL, you obviously wake up some days and decide that there’s no way you’re going to concede anything. My apologies for pointing out that you were inadvertently denigrating an aircraft type with a very good safety record.
Well LB thats because of your unique ability to elevate an irrelevant part of a wider discussion on private pilots flying high performance amateur built aircraft and flying them into the ground. Of course your drive to always have the last word on any subject will naturally result in another post that completely misses the point.