I flew into a willy willy at around 300 agl on final a few years back, nearly flipped the plane on its back lost 200 ft recovering , closest I've come to making a hole in the ground. Felt Ike I'd flown into a washing machine!

They do tend to get you attention fairly quickly. Have had a Fletcher 90deg coming into land on an ag strip. luckily plenty of power helps unlike a Fletcher rudder

Ok, so I cant see the wheels, but I also can't see the nice sealed runway either.... just where did this plane end up?!

In the bush;)

Thread about bush flying it is:ok:

I wonder if PT is going to have another go at fixing her up?

runway sighted
 

Ok, back to my question on the last page about an aircraft in the NT that had a throttle cable break after a go-around - is this the plane in question? Makes a bit more sense if it is...

http://i39.tinypic.com/jsdaw3.jpg

By any chance related to this :confused:

I dare say that was related to the Jetstar incident in Singapore where the Captain was fiddling with his phone and the aircraft ended up going around after the gear was forgotten.

Where's the photo of the man with 3 arms though? Wasn't you was it Tinny?

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Maybe this guy would have been better at flying a 210. One on the yoke, one on the throttle and one on the gear lever.


http://pictures.deadlycomputer.com/d/31130-1/3arm.jpg

Same, this guy has 3 arms, it's quite catchy...!


http://resources0.news.com.au/images...-catalogue.jpg

I can imagine that guy saying, "I'm so busy I don't have time to scratch myself", and the responses (and bruises) afterwards.

Seriously though, that'd be really handy.

In the photo, the gear looks retracted (unless the resolution on my screen isn't good enough). I don't believe NT News eye witness reports. I have it on good authority a 210 in the territory had a throttle cable snap in the last week, resulting in a landing upwind of the strip. Put it all together and hence my question.

The engine and tail have sagged downwards and this is pretty much the standard 210 "stopped flying at 50' AGL" picture, when the thing hits the ground with not much forward speed. This is what you get when a 210 is allowed to float, or balloons up out of ground effect - it stops flying with a big bang !

A dust devil in the Centre will start off quick; all you'll see is a bit of dust flicking sideways and the bushes moving, then the vertical core builds up fast, so if you're landing on top of one you won't get much notice.
The only way to land a 210 is nail constant airspeed + constant aimpoint, but there won't be much of that if you're in a dust devil at 50' !

In the front right NTPFES photo you can see a bit of nose gear door, and partially extended left main crushed backwards into the gear well in the left side photo.
For this to happen, the gear would probably have been in transit when it hit; if it was locked forward then the mains would have been splayed up and out near the doors. It looks like the go-round was on.
The two blade tips are pushed back and not scuffed so it looks like idle power on impact. The bottom blade tip (foward of cowl vent) looks the same, so at least the got the power off before they hit.

Don't worry about Bush Mechanics - he's the one who'll have to fix the thing :)

Least it wasn't flying on Jet A1 like the other one ...http://www.pprune.org/forums/images/.../eusa_clap.gif

Maybe he's another Darryl . . . as in "get your hand off it Darryl."

VAGUELY RELATED - An old Bass Strait Heron driver called Nigel

once waited for a long-winded jerk to cease his Tx, whereupon says Nigel - "Change hands Darryl . .. . change hands ."

Now BUSH FLYING, where's Bushy when you want his expert opinion opined? Not down the Stuart Arms surely?

In '86 Fantome, in a hired C210 (VH-POO) stuck his silly neck out landing at sun down at Elizabeth Downs in the Kimberleys. What he didn't know that this was OLD Elizabeth Downs, but still marked with magenta circle on the current WAC. The NEW Elizabeth Downs, miles away, had not yet rated any reference on the friggin'chart. (And when he'd called the folk there from Broome earlier in the day they'd said not a word about relocation . .. just "Our strip's fine .. Flying Doctor in yesterday."

Still, despite the long grass (no, you don't need to know how long)
the party of 2 adults and 3 kids spent a memorable night in the near derelict homestead. "We of the Never Never' should have been the bedtime reading.

Fuelling at Kunnunurra next morning the fueller took one look at some long stalks of 'tell-tale' round the gear and said knowingly " Ahhh . .. I can see where you lot have been."