Dead stick on a 3 lane street

1:1_Scale · Post by **1:1_Scale** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:25 am

Came across this video this morning, it's a pretty good watch, methinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk

Post by **bullojm1** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:24 am

Thanks for the post. That guy is lucky he was able to do a couple of restarts in the air!

smithhb · Post by **smithhb** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:07 pm

I could not see if he ever went through his "Engine Restart Procedure". Especially the part where you switch fuel tanks. Maybe the high wing plane he was flying used a header tank, I dunno.

Dan A · Post by **Dan A** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:07 pm

It sure pays to make sure you have fuel before you take off Doesn't it!

Dan A

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:14 pm

Let the Rotax bashing begin!

Well, at least the 2 cycle versions.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:23 pm

Dan A wrote:It sure pays to make sure you have fuel before you take off Doesn't it!

Dan A

That was my first thought too Dan, but if they had 8 to start, it burns 2.5 (obviously more during takeoff, but not 8 gal in a few minutes), it seems that wouldn't be the case. If the FAA has already written this one off as an incident (says so in one of the comments), we may never know.

Coulda been water???

Great vid...

aparchment · Post by **aparchment** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:12 pm

This is a good demonstration of why altitude is your friend over populated areas.

He might not have made that road had it not been for the first restart.

matt_sturgis · Post by **matt_sturgis** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:27 pm

Does anyone else think this looks somewhat staged/fake?

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:16 pm

matt_sturgis wrote:Does anyone else think this looks somewhat staged/fake?

It's pretty well covered as a real event on the net and on TV...

smithhb · Post by **smithhb** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:38 am

The word at SnF was that this was staged.... FWIW

Bret Smith
RV-9A N16BL
Blue Ridge, Ga
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