| Re: Vintage aircraft operators bid to prevent DC-3 grounding |
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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: PitsPits Date: Feb 20, 2008 22:07
On Feb 20, 3:06 pm, Paul Saccani omen.net.au> wrote:> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:07:46 +1000, Fakerlewy wrote:
>>"Contributing factors included the overweight condition of the
>>aircraft, an engine overhaul or maintenance error, non-adherence to
>>operating procedures and lack of skill of the handling pilot."
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> I suspect "V1 Oops!" still disagrees with that finding. He said that
> they weighed water logged luggage and came up with a falsely high
> gross weight. He also said that the remaining engine didn't develop
> full rated power, and if IIRC, that feathering on the dead engine was
> not as effective as it might have been.
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> The non-adherance to operating procedures is a bit of a nasty turn on
> the pilot too. They say he shouldn't have been using the flight
> manual that was kept in the aircraft, because of the gross take-off
> weights specified in it. As if he is going to know!
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> Well, that's how I recall it.
> --
> Cheers
> Paul Saccani
> Perth, Western Australia.
Paul You recall it Pretty well . But because of respect to both the
man you mentioned and his nemesis in this unhappy affair.
Both who I have dined with and His nemesis I have known and flown with
more than a few times
I deliberately did not mention any names.
A bit of bad "chemistry" did not help the outcomes either.
See my post above as to me it is insane not to re evaluate data
performance or otherwise every few years on the same systems and
aircraft.
Especially Things like DC3 .
BY the way V1 oops is another candidate for those missing from the
true contributors in the old style AA .
Not wishing it to become a forum of sky gods or commercial guys only
but their contributions were certainly welcomed more often than not
and bloody educational or kicked in old lessons/methods forgotten .
Great tool was AA for the newer aviators and those with an aviation
interest.
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