I should have said that it was unwise, Ken, to fly an aircraft that had hit
anything longer than necessary. In my checklist there are 2 degrees of
reaction once you have carried out the bold-face drills: "Land as soon as
practicable" or "Land as soon as possible". Neither means fly any further than
you have to.
I had a bad landing several years ago. The student pilot bounced the aircraft,
nose high (good), but failed to put the power on early enough to go around
(bad). I failed to react quickly enough (just as bad) and the aircraft came
back to the runway tail first before I could get the power on. The noise of
the impact was pretty serious and as I flew downwind prior to landing I could
imagine the rear fuselage swinging loosely in the breeze. It took only a
couple of minutes to get around the circuit and plonk it gently on the ground,
but I fancied that perhaps in that case "asap" meant an earlier landing than I
was going to carry out.
But the aircraft was fine; barely a scratch on the tail bumper . . .
Chris
On 27 Jul 2011, at 17:30, Ken Norton wrote:
> This past year, the big evil telco I work for, had several cable
> strikes by cropdusters. In only one case did the pilot fly back to the
> airport--the rest they did an immediate field landing. All pilots and
> planes survived, but much damage done to the planes. In one case, the
> plane took out a 400-pair cable. Those are extremely heavy cables. The
> cutter sliced the cable, but the airplane sustained major damage from
> the impact of the broken cable against the airframe itself.
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