75 miles off course in 100 mile trip...
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In this case a climb into the murk would have probably been the worst thing to do. D&D were adamant that they not lose sight of the surface, since there was very intermittent radio contact due to the terrain and no positive fix could be obtained by D&D.
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Forced landing on Holy Island beach 09/03/06
Does anyone know more about this incident that was reported by the BBC last week - aircraft type & registration, pilots, departure airfield, destination etc ? Where the occupants and aircraft ok after the landing? Did the aircraft fly off the beach when refueled?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4791778.stm
It was an eventful week for GA in the county. There was another forced landing the day before, also in Northumberland. A C182 made a night approach into Eshott airfield - again reported by the BBC and already being discussed on the PPRune thread below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4789374.stm
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=215020
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4791778.stm
It was an eventful week for GA in the county. There was another forced landing the day before, also in Northumberland. A C182 made a night approach into Eshott airfield - again reported by the BBC and already being discussed on the PPRune thread below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4789374.stm
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=215020
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Ok, thanks HiFrank - I didn't pick it up because of that thread's title. I'll leave this one here for now as it is more likely to show up in people's searches
The story was also reported by the local Evening Chronicle newspaper
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/e...name_page.html
I guess the BBC didn't have a picture of a C150 available.
The story was also reported by the local Evening Chronicle newspaper
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/e...name_page.html
I guess the BBC didn't have a picture of a C150 available.
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Or the facts come to think of it......
A/C is now off the beach and secured down at Eshott, infact she's sitting next to the 182!
I flew it off the road at Lindisfarne after the coastguard closed it and we'd put some more fuel in the machine. It wasn't dry, infact there was still nearly 5 litres a side left in the tanks.
No damage at all, actually all it needed was a good clean.
A/C is now off the beach and secured down at Eshott, infact she's sitting next to the 182!
I flew it off the road at Lindisfarne after the coastguard closed it and we'd put some more fuel in the machine. It wasn't dry, infact there was still nearly 5 litres a side left in the tanks.
No damage at all, actually all it needed was a good clean.
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I just had a read of the original thread on this incident and don't believe it has developed sufficiently to address what we know / might learn
I see several issues here, culminating in two people walking away from an incident I seriously doubt I could have handled if I had got into it.
This is of course the key issue, not getting into the brown stuff. Rather than focussing on where they ended out, how much fuel was left etc, I see potential poor understanding of wx prior to departure, follwed by a diversion and knowing when to land under power, instead of allowing themselves to continue to a field they might well not have reached.
Two other outcomes could well have been fuel starvation and a forced landing with all the problems that offers - something which would have made "interesting" reading for the public. The second would have been landing at an air-field and the chances are not so many of the public would have learned about the incident.
I don't know any of the people involved, but for me the trick was landing under power when down to such low levels of fuel.
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I see several issues here, culminating in two people walking away from an incident I seriously doubt I could have handled if I had got into it.
This is of course the key issue, not getting into the brown stuff. Rather than focussing on where they ended out, how much fuel was left etc, I see potential poor understanding of wx prior to departure, follwed by a diversion and knowing when to land under power, instead of allowing themselves to continue to a field they might well not have reached.
Two other outcomes could well have been fuel starvation and a forced landing with all the problems that offers - something which would have made "interesting" reading for the public. The second would have been landing at an air-field and the chances are not so many of the public would have learned about the incident.
I don't know any of the people involved, but for me the trick was landing under power when down to such low levels of fuel.
The wombat
