The engines certainly hadn't spooled up sufficiently to allow for a climb
and gear retraction. This will undoubtedly boil down to pilot error.
This points out a distinct advantage to turboprops such as the C-130. The
engines/props are always turning at 100% RPM. The prop pitch is adjusted
automatically as fuel flow is adjusted. Since the angular momentum is
constant, throttle response is almost instantaneous. But you still need to
observe a positive rate of climb before gear retraction. We would challenge
each other to verify that.
>
>Another rule of thumb would be to select go around power, which does not
>seem to have happened.
>
>Chris
>
>> On 19 Sep 16, at 14:24, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds a bit like insufficient thrust for the pitch angle and the
>>aircraft settled back to the ground at the start of a stall, with the
>>tail impacting first.
>>
>> Rule of thumb in a go-around is to have a positive rate of climb
>>before retracting the landing gear.
>
Chris
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