Textbook Forced Landing

pclancy

Take a look at this:

Engine loses power, instructor takes control, selects a field for landing, briefs the student, gets him to brace on two cushions, cuts fuel/power and manages to come to a stop without serious damage or injury to anyone.

I really hope if this happens to me one day it goes so well, kudos to the instructor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUZI69FSDag

BonkeyDonker

Excellent piece of airman-ship. Seemed really calm during it from his body language, and spent quite a lot of time reassuring the student.

eatmyshorts

What kind of plane is that? I've never seen that kind of split centre yoke before.

knucklehead6

is it just me or is sound not working?

Joe10000

No sound for me either, great piece of flying.

jmayo

eatmyshorts wrote: »

What kind of plane is that? I've never seen that kind of split centre yoke before.

I think it is a Jabiru of some sort.
Maybe a J160, J170 or J230 ?

Is it in Oz ?

phonypony

knucklehead6 wrote: »

is it just me or is sound not working?

From the video info: 'Two young pilots at the controls of a Jabiru J-170 aircraft are forced to put emergency landing procedures into play. (Video contains no audio)'

Which is a pity.

kerry4sam

pclancy wrote: »

Take a look at this:

Engine loses power, instructor takes control, selects a field for landing, briefs the student, gets him to brace on two cushions, cuts fuel/power and manages to come to a stop without serious damage or injury to anyone.

I really hope if this happens to me one day it goes so well, kudos to the instructor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUZI69FSDag

Nice find pclancy! That's some composed head on the instructors shoulders - massive Well Done

john kinsella

Fair play to the student too. I would have fainted

Happyman42

Could the cushions not have potentially impeded the controls at a critical moment in the landing? Just wondering, not an expert by any means.
Cool dude btw!

Renegade Mechanic

Wow... Very cool and level heads in that plane. Student did very well too. I think in terms of experience, that will be an extremely advantageous lesson.

Xpro

Heres another engine failure forced landing. Not as lucky as the people in the previous video, but still he walked away..:eek:

DownBeaten

That instructor can't be real. Like, I mean, no designer shades, man!

Interesting the way he keeps playing with the throttle all the way down, even with a dead prop up front, force of habit I suppose! Great pity there's no sound, I'd love to hear his patter.

pclancy

Sorry forgot to post the link, was near Brisbane, Australia:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/9124645/Pilot-executes-textbook-crash-landing

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-03/pilot-makes-emergency-landing-in-light-aircraft/4931182

Joe10000

Watched this a few times now, why did the pilot not try to restart the engine ?

Renegade Mechanic

That propeller came to a stop very quickly Id say the engine seized.

lomb

If its anything like a Tecnam with a Rotax 912 then the prop does not freewheel with its slipper clutch. This may be a bad thing as the relative wind helps keep the prop spinning so it keeps sparking and if fuel is restored eg by changing tanks the engine relights or doesnt in the case of the Rotax.
The relevance of this is that idle power on a Rotax may be dangerous as if the engine stops at idle it will not restart itself and needs manually restarting. Probably best to keep a little power rather than against the idle stop.