ouch poor plane!
 

i was sent these pics.
does anyone know the story???

http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_0.jpg

http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_1.jpg

http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_2.jpg

http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_3.jpg

http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Cessna_4.jpg




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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.

..and when did Freddy Krueger start his PPL then?

The morale is

"Look out of the b***dy window before engine start!"


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You fly em we'll fill em!

....and keep your feet on the b***dy brakes!

DD - morale? Is that high or low morale? :)

Either way, if someone could please post the engine rpm, we could all work out how fast he was taxying! :)

How fast "HE" was going..?....

Come on,....we all know it was a woman!, but in her defence (yes, with a 'C', I'm English)
she thought that knob handle thingy sticking out of the dashboard thingy was to hang her handbag on!

So much fuss. I was just sitting there, doing my run up in the Skyhawk when the Caravan backed right into me. I honked and flashed my lights, but to no avail. Stupid Caravan drivers never check their wing mirrors.

Personally I wouldn't hang my handbag from those knob thingies on the dash? It might swing and break my kneecap. I put it safely on the floor. There are foot pedals down there, but I never need to use them, as my engine works perfectly. Keeps turning even when there's a Caravan on the prop.

:)

Nice registration on the Caravan - looks like o-falk. I bet thats what the bloke in the skyhawk was saying over and over.....loudly..........!

So what do we reckon from the pictures? Low RPM, high speed impact? Or High RPM, low speed imapact?

Or a Caravan parked on a slope with the brakes off........?

Big slope or little slope?

Ha!! Who cares!! Nice photos though.....

Damn! I knew I shouldn't have hand-proped that airplane without someone in the cockpit!

[This message has been edited by Roadtrip (edited 01 April 2001).]

so no one knows what the story is then? http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/confused.gif

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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.

Ouch that's nasty ...... looks like high speed and high RPM !

What's with the plastic wrapped car in the maintenance hangar ? 8-) (or at least car like object from what is available on to see on the photo)

Could this be the little...ahem...'incident' at Elstree late last year??

If I remember correctly an instructor let his student fire a Cessna up while he went and finished his coffee. The student had the throttle set too high, didn't have the park brake on nor his feet on the toe-brakes and just panicked when he shot forward into the rear end of another aircraft.

Its a stab in the dark but looks like the same incident to me...

Never ever forget to brake,

SB22

The next thing that wannabe pilot will be saying aboard an aircraft......

Would you like like tea or coffee Sir?