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Oh Dear!!! What's wrong with these pictures? :confused:
 
Wow... The Archer finally got the Qtip prop STC. About damn time!


I hope that wasn't you, and if it was, I hope everything turned out ok.
 
Was that your stupid pilot trick? Or somebody else's?

It's an easy one to pull off! A lot easier than I think most people believe it to be.
 
since when did your a/c come with winglets? is that an '08 addition? :D

just from the pics, it doesn't look like the nose was damaged, but the prop strike :eek:
 
Nope, wasn't me. I haven't seen the inside of an Archer in quite a while now, too busy flying the brick with wings....ahh, I mean Arrow.


No damage to the nose, just the prop. However, as with all prop strikes, it calls for a taredown, and that really sucks because I think it was a new engine that just completed break-in!!

When you have over 250 students, and average 145 flights per day, stuff like this is going to happen sooner or later.

Oh well, that's what insurance is for.
 
We have quite the bump on our ramp up here at UND. It's one of those ones that drops down about an inch followed by an immediate bump in an upward direction of about an inch only about a foot away from the first one. We were getting prop strikes during taxi all the time. You had to be going on along at about 10 knots GS though to make this happen. This was happening so much people had to be reminded of taxi speed on the ramp, walking pace. DUH!!!! :banghead:

Even if you were going along at a pretty good clip, I'm pretty sure if you have even the slightest bit of situation awareness you'd think to slow down for these bumps!
 
Could be worse. He could have been the guy I saw fly out of MFD that forgot about his tow bar. He was in a Piper Cherokee (probably 160HP). When the prop hits a tow bar on start up, it gets loud. Of course the guys flying the plane decided to just go pick up their tow bar, taxi, and then depart the airport.

There was also a prop strike at PMP about three weeks ago now. The twin had gear problems, landed and the nose wheel collapsed on them. The best part is when they tried to move the aircraft and one of the mains decided to retract.
 
Prop replacement and Engine teardown inspection right there. About 2 years ago I did an engine change on a 172 and it flew for about 100 hours and had a propstrike. Replaced prop and installed new engine and aircraft flew for about another 200 hours and had another propstrike only this time it was bad enough where it did firewall damage and had to replace some belly skin right behind the firewall. You really have to plant an airplane really hard to do that. Some flight school planes take alot of abuse.
 
UAL747400 said:
We have quite the bump on our ramp up here at UND. It's one of those ones that drops down about an inch followed by an immediate bump in an upward direction of about an inch only about a foot away from the first one. We were getting prop strikes during taxi all the time. You had to be going on along at about 10 knots GS though to make this happen. This was happening so much people had to be reminded of taxi speed on the ramp, walking pace. DUH!!!! :banghead:

Even if you were going along at a pretty good clip, I'm pretty sure if you have even the slightest bit of situation awareness you'd think to slow down for these bumps!
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At Reid-Hillview theirs a grate that has been known to cause some prop strikes. I was taught to A) go slow and B) Go full back on the yoke and get as much weight off the nose as possible. Never hit it once! :-)
 
gator4798 said:
At Reid-Hillview theirs a grate that has been known to cause some prop strikes. I was taught to A) go slow and B) Go full back on the yoke and get as much weight off the nose as possible. Never hit it once! :-)
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Yeah isn't it amazing how just merely slowing down can alleviate the problem all together! :panic::D I've had to remind my students a couple time about this bump. "HEY, slow down! Do you not see that ridiculous bump ahead!" :D
 
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