Which is an urban legend perpetuated by wannabe retractable gear private pilots |
the fault here likely does not lie with the aircraft, but more likely with the pilot (and possibly the company culture). Seaplanes seem to temp pilots into low altitude maneuvering. I find myself training this out of new seaplane pilots, as they learn a new freedom in flying. Like a helicopter, the unwary pilot can put an airplane into a lot of low altitude places, from which recovery to normal controlled flight could be impossible. |
Another Icon A5 death, Roy Halladay the retired Canadian baseball player.
Plane's CofA issued Monday, crashed and dead pilot Tuesday. There is video, looks like a swoopy descending turn, down to a few feet, accelerated stall - yup, just like the Icon idiots promote in their publicity videos. It's a flying jetski, yeah right. This together with the 30%+ price increase announced last week should just about kill them off - it was only in 2013 that is was being described as the $200,000 wonder, now all but $400,000. They should stop with the swoopy, low level and formation videos and promote the fly at 1,000ft unless you are taking off or landing - but the one doesn't get the impression of speed. The you can't spin it doesn't mean you can't stall it, seems Roy Halladay found that out; he was an experienced 700hour pilot and had been doing promotional videos for Icon only last month. |
Originally Posted by megan
(Post 9772240)
Nope, it's a fact related by retractable pilots with experience. The worlds most experienced 747 pilot tells a tale of how he nearly landed Mr. Boeings biggest sans wheels.
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