Metroliner near miss at EGMC
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Metroliner near miss at EGMC
German registered metroliner went cross country at the end of landing run at Southend today at around 16.00 local. Landing 24 with slight cross wind although gusting 15-20kts. managed a nice right hand handbrake turn across the grass and lined up at Delta. Tonka toys deployed but flight crew kept engines running and then taxied to the main apron.
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was watching Ford departure from viscount house and saw him come in a little high over threshold of 24 and he landed quite long approx cross section . did not see what happend in the end as no view over hangars but he was led in to northern apron by fire truck closly followed by another . he was marshalled on to stand next to another of his company metros .
wind at time was straight down the rwy i think . ( wind sock)
wind at time was straight down the rwy i think . ( wind sock)
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The Lawn Dart.
Just a sober comment from someone (me!) who has 3000 hours in Metros:
The nosewheel steering system is notorious for sporadic faults. There's a whole history of "Lawn Darts" veering off runways even in calm conditions.
So, let's not be too quick to hang the crew on this one.
The nosewheel steering system is notorious for sporadic faults. There's a whole history of "Lawn Darts" veering off runways even in calm conditions.
So, let's not be too quick to hang the crew on this one.
I only knew them by the "San Antonio sewer pipe" 
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The nosewheel steering system is notorious for sporadic faults. There's a whole history of "Lawn Darts" veering off runways even in calm conditions.
It was not a pretty picture....
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loads of time on type as well..when the nws steering had an electrical fault (flashing green light) iit was simple..turn the system off and free-castoring steering was available..the headaches begin when there are faults in the arming valve(hydraulic side of things..yellow light) and un commanded steering could occur..which required immediate press and hold of the nws button on the left power lever ( if the speed/rpm levers were off of the "low" position). In the hydraulic arming valve malfunction scenario, the pilot had no choice but to use the steering with arming valve faults, since the ability to remove hydraulic pressure from the system was lost..this was very well documented in appropriate manuals and procedures...I would suspect the crew experience/training levels of the crews may be a factor in many of these incidents, not implying it was the case in this incident referred to on this thread
