Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Remos Nose Gear Collapse

Helen,

I see the nose of the plane coming up, while the plane is still way in the air.
It was a stall, probably a AOA caused condition, as the ASI indicates plenty of air
speed.
With such a low mass plane, the actual air speed will drop much faster than the ASI
will react.
I do agree with you that the CFI should have applied full power the moment the nose
began to come up while still being way too far off the ground. A go-around would have
saved the day.

I suspect the CFI was not expecting a problem and was therefore a bit complacent.
Probably forgot that students are trying to kill them and they need to act accordingly.

R. Williams

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@verizon.net>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:04:49 -0400
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Remos Nose Gear Collapse

> That was NOT a stall. He got into a porpoise that the CFI did nothing
> to arrest. CFI was WAY behind on that one. No where near the
> throttle under after the gear was gone and obviously not on the stick either.
>
> Helen
>
> On 8/24/2010 8:58 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
> > That was a major stall from rounding out too high, resulting in a very hard
landing.
> > The long drift off the center line was from the stall.
> >
> > > From the looks of things, that plane will need a prop, engine, front end, and a
whole
> > lot of dollars to get back into the air (safely) again.
> >
> > Too bad, it is/was a very nice looking plane.
> >
> > R. Williams
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Original Message -----------
> > From: "Chris"<chris.holub@cox.net>
> > To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:47:57 -0000
> > Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Remos Nose Gear Collapse
> >
> >
> >> Nose gear collapse during student flight training in Remos.
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jOKpvthn7A
> >> Based on the video in my opinion he bounced it so hard the first time
> >> that when it came down the second time it was probably already
> >> weakened so much it couldn't support itself any more.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Chris
> >>
> > ------- End of Original Message -------
> >
> >
> >
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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