Plane makes precautionary landing.
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Seems like these things are happening one after the after, 3 I can think of lets hope that's all for now.
However, I do have to ask is it that easy to get caught in weather that bad you can't 'safely' make it back to an Airfield or choose a better landing site where you could land it safely?
However, I do have to ask is it that easy to get caught in weather that bad you can't 'safely' make it back to an Airfield or choose a better landing site where you could land it safely?
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I do have to ask is it that easy to get caught in weather that bad you can't 'safely' make it back to an Airfield
This really should not be making the news though, a bit like "car pulls over on hard shoulder"💤
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Plane makes precautionary landing.
I'm not a pilot so forgive me for asking a daft question, but is a light aircraft nose down in a field ( as opposed to a runway) really comparable to a car on the hard shoulder. One of them you see every day , the other one thankfully not !! Maybe it's more common than I thought
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It is a misrepresentation comparing Aircraft accident to a car on a hard shoulder.
The individuals involved in this accident are happy to have walked away. That's Good News. However, the number of accidents within a short time frame as evident in the last couple of days cast certain doubt on the security of GA operations.
At my home airport yesterday, two GA related accidents occured in which two microlight aircrafts were totaled.
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The individuals involved in this accident are happy to have walked away. That's Good News. However, the number of accidents within a short time frame as evident in the last couple of days cast certain doubt on the security of GA operations.
At my home airport yesterday, two GA related accidents occured in which two microlight aircrafts were totaled.
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hey guys, don't get bent out of shape on this one!
Two things contribute to an increase in prangs this time of year
1. The weather is nice, (mostly)
2. A lot of pilots are rusty.
Gliders land in fields as a normal thing to do; but just now crops are tall and it is much harder to find a nice surface than in say September, after the harvest. We do a lot of training before attempting field landings, covering conditons, (size, slope, surface!!!!)
Land lightly on the top of the crop at slowest possible touchdown speed. If the crop is very high, you may catch a wing on a plant causing a ground loop; this seldom causes damage but is an interesting thing to experience.
But if you get it right, after touchdown, the world turns green, you climb out and get out the phone and call your friends....then find the farmer and apologise. Then try to find the glider again; if the crop is very high, only the horizontal T-tail will be visible! All good fun, adventure, and something to talk about in the bar when you get back.
Any landing that you walk away from.......!
Two things contribute to an increase in prangs this time of year
1. The weather is nice, (mostly)
2. A lot of pilots are rusty.
Gliders land in fields as a normal thing to do; but just now crops are tall and it is much harder to find a nice surface than in say September, after the harvest. We do a lot of training before attempting field landings, covering conditons, (size, slope, surface!!!!)
Land lightly on the top of the crop at slowest possible touchdown speed. If the crop is very high, you may catch a wing on a plant causing a ground loop; this seldom causes damage but is an interesting thing to experience.
But if you get it right, after touchdown, the world turns green, you climb out and get out the phone and call your friends....then find the farmer and apologise. Then try to find the glider again; if the crop is very high, only the horizontal T-tail will be visible! All good fun, adventure, and something to talk about in the bar when you get back.
Any landing that you walk away from.......!
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It was a precautionary landing due to bad weather. The pilots walked away from it unharmed.
They seem to have picked a rather sub-optimal field and broken the nosegear and probably the prop and thus shock-loaded the engine. That's rather unfortunate.
However, this is not a tragedy, it's a pilot sensibly doing what he was trained to do, but getting unlucky at the end. If he'd pushed on in deteriorating weather and flown into a tree, then it would be a tragedy.
I don't think from the photo on the BBC website that he picked a good field, but equally I doubt he had many to choose from and was making a choice in a hurry. I'd certainly not be overly concerned about putting a C152 in a field - in some conditions it's a perfectly sensible thing to do, and this was quite probably such conditions.
Power to his elbow, and call it what it is - a good decision, that ended badly due to probably poor luck. He walked away from it, and in all likelihood the aeroplane will be flying again in a couple of months.
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They seem to have picked a rather sub-optimal field and broken the nosegear and probably the prop and thus shock-loaded the engine. That's rather unfortunate.
However, this is not a tragedy, it's a pilot sensibly doing what he was trained to do, but getting unlucky at the end. If he'd pushed on in deteriorating weather and flown into a tree, then it would be a tragedy.
I don't think from the photo on the BBC website that he picked a good field, but equally I doubt he had many to choose from and was making a choice in a hurry. I'd certainly not be overly concerned about putting a C152 in a field - in some conditions it's a perfectly sensible thing to do, and this was quite probably such conditions.
Power to his elbow, and call it what it is - a good decision, that ended badly due to probably poor luck. He walked away from it, and in all likelihood the aeroplane will be flying again in a couple of months.
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Plane makes precautionary landing.
Would be interesting to know exactly where this happened (as I fly over East Yorks a fair bit) and what the weather was doing at the time. I can't think of anywhere East of the wolds, and south of an E-W line south of Bridlington, right down until you get to the Humber where you would be more than 5-10 mins flying time in a C150 from either an active airfield or farm strip, or disused airfield where you could put down - although I do appreciate not everyone has local knowledge (this aircraft is Prestwick based?!)
It's also the first time I personally have ever heard of an actual precautionary landing taking place, off airport.
Lastly, well done for being able to walk away, whoever they were!
It's also the first time I personally have ever heard of an actual precautionary landing taking place, off airport.
Lastly, well done for being able to walk away, whoever they were!
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Whilst less usual in the group A world, you won't find many experienced microlight or glider pilots who haven't a few in their logbook.
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It's also the first time I personally have ever heard of an actual precautionary landing taking place, off airport.
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All the more reason to have an IR(R) it seems!
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All the more reason to have an IR(R) it seems!
Looking down at this time of year, I wouldn't criticise the field choice - they may all have looked the same from above. The pilot kept in control, and seems to have landed successfully.
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It is a misrepresentation comparing Aircraft accident to a car on a hard shoulder.
They might be happy to have walked away, but for a precautionary landing I would hope to be flying the aircraft out when the weather picks up (been there, got the Tshirt!), the fields might look much the same at height, but a low fly past first should show most problems, certainly what I teach and something we can do that the glider pilots do not have available!