Pride: What happens just before you join the "Darwin Award" competition.
Go Around: Otherwise known as a "slow speed pass to assess runway conditions prior to final landing approach". .. ;)) On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:19 AM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com > wrote: > Our neighbor was landing his BT-13 at the end of the return from Oshkosh, > was too hot and high, and rather then risk the embarrassment of "going > around", he ground looped it to avoid going off the embankment at the end > of the runway, into the road, and into the embankment on the other side. > The result was the gear being torn out and plenty of belly damage, bent > prop, etc.. He repaired it, flew it one more time, and has left it sitting > ever since. The price of pride . . . > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:46 AM, G Mann via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com > > wrote: > > > There is an aviation maneuver for doing a high banked turn during > > landing... it's called a "Ground Loop".... That's when you dig one wing > > tip into the dirt at just a shade below landing speed, say.. 70 mph, and > > then roll the airplane ass over tea cup until all speed and occupants are > > "bled off". > > > > Usually followed by the FAA crash investigators filing a report headed > > "Cause of Death, Pilot Error", and an insurance report headed, "Aircraft > > total loss, Claim Denied" > > > > FYI, successful landings and takeoffs are made "straight ahead, into the > > wind". > > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:38 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes < > > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > OK Don wrote: > > > > >> You'd get LOTS of cross-wind experience - there's a reason most > > > runways > > > > >> in OK are aligned N-S. 1800' would be enough for your average > > Cessna. > > > > > > > > From Google maps, it appears that Kaleb's estate is about 1300' > > > east-west > > > > > and about 670' north-south. > > > > > It seems he would need an STOL aircraft. > > > > > Craig > > > > > > With one high banked turn, you could land a Cessna; 1300'+670'. Kaleb > > > could haul in enough dirt. Three more and Kaleb could have stock car > > races. > > > Gerry > > > > > > --- > > > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > > > http://www.avg.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
