He'd have been doing a lot of switching in the time he had, plans? magnetos?, tanks? fuel pumps?, frequencies?, into bathing trunks ?

Happily we should hear first hand soon . .

Just reported-engine had flooded carby...

V35 N87565. (Only a few hundred serials away from V35 VH-CFK, Gerry111.)

The reason the pilot isn't wet and doesn't have a life jacket on is that the aircraft is sitting on the bottom. The waters off Cedar Keys Florida are very shallow.

On an Injected 540?

Spin
Reality
We completely missed seeing an aircraft crash nearby on a perfectly clear and calm day, then happened to accidently come across it, and were able to get close enough to pull the pilot who had rescued himself on to our boat.

He looks pretty soaked to me.

Oi rekkon OI'd be a fair bit 'soaked' in the next hour or so tooo.....

Cheeerrrsss...... (Hic)

Sense of humour failure there.... :D

Pilots often forget to check the chemtrail flux meter in flight. It really ought to be emphasized more in training.

Now that the finest “Aviation Experts” in Australia (Except GT) have suggested the most likely cause of this event I was wondering if those in charge have been able to download the contents of the “Black Boxes” from the aircraft. This would help stop the speculation and the media could report the actual cause.

Cheers, Oods.

‘Oodna’, I’m surprised that your unaware that the black box has in fact been analysed at the ATSB’s Oodnadatta depot. It’s probably sitting on a bench just round the corner from your place.

This was a turboencabulator failure, without doubt. Usually it's fretting on the prefabulated amulite base.
Classical symptoms.

Geez Megle2, I dropped the ball on that one. Not many corners around here but I know where you mean.

I was distracted trying to figure out why a WA couple got bogged in the Simpson Desert.

The Oodnadatta refueller can give you the full story.

Cheers, Oods.

Doesn't that cause, amongst a few other things, to make both the fuel dump and the chemtrail dump valves jam open?:confused:

Unlike the pilot who probably did a weather check before flight, the Simpson campervanner obviously did not.
Bit of a transcontinental shift in thread … from surf to sand. Van recoverable, Tobago beyond it.

The Simpson campervanners admitted to "pressonitis" due to having insufficient fuel to return to their point of departure. That would never happen in GA.

GeeeeSus Gerry , I think you've GOT-IT.
"That would NEVER 'appen in GA"

......Well.....Hardly ever...????
Cheeerrrssss

Although campervan might be recoverable, methinks it will be totally stuffed too.

Pinky, it's true that can happen as a result, more usually though it's failure of the spurving bearings that is the root cause.

Simply, the modern replacements are not up to the standard of the original General Electric versions.
I've attached a data sheet which highlights the high quality units that we once enjoyed. Sadly, not everything new is better.

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