Biggest POS You've Ever Flown

SeanD

SeanD

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I flown some dumpsters but Id have to hand the award to a particular Duchess. This thing was a POS from the outside to the inside. Thankfully the engines worked but nothing else did. I was having this conversation with a good friend who is an RJ captain. He told me some insanity about some of the POSes at his place. Whats the biggest POS you've flown?
 
N##43H at a certain accelerated flight school in Bullhead City, AZ. Not just a POS, but a pathetic excuse for a POS;)
 
Before mikecweb came to work with me, he always made fun of me when I complained about our Lear 55 being a POS, saying it couldn't possibly compare to some of the planes at AirNet. Then he had a chance to fly it...
 
Boris Badenov said:
You stole my line. Obviously, I concur. There aren't enough negative adjectives in the English language to describe that flying turd.
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I particularly love that all of them are bent. The have to be. I can come up with no other reason why they fly the way they do! :)
 
Bubble Boy...the worst Baron Airnet had. The tail would flutter like a humming bird when you'd pull back on the yoke.
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After that it'd be the LR55 TFaudree_ERAU is talking about.
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
Before mikecweb came to work with me, he always made fun of me when I complained about our Lear 55 being a POS, saying it couldn't possibly compare to some of the planes at AirNet. Then he had a chance to fly it...
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I've flown quite a few 55's, and there was one I flew which was especially crappy. I was almost to V1 speed taking off at Midway and the entire 65 pound instrument panel fell onto my shins. I mean literally the whole dash fell out. All 7 camlock screws had broken or stripped out. I had to have the other guy taxi in because I couldn't move my legs or feet to steer. There were plenty of other problems too, I never had a flight in that thing where something didn't go wrong. Freaking N95WK.
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staledog said:
I've flown quite a few 55's, and there was one I flew which was especially crappy. I was almost to V1 speed taking off at Midway and the entire 65 pound instrument panel fell onto my shins. I mean literally the whole dash fell out. All 7 camlock screws had broken or stripped out. I had to have the other guy taxi in because I couldn't move my legs or feet to steer. There were plenty of other problems too, I never had a flight in that thing where something didn't go wrong. Freaking N95WK.
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You win. We just had a crap load of electrical issues. I think we went through 3 nosewheel steering servos, a steering computer or two, a squat switch bus bar, an issue of unknown origin that would cause the autopilot to revert to LVL mode, as well as causing the yoke to jump (in conjunction with AC voltage spikes from one or both inverters), GPU receptical faults, an APR computer, a yaw damper computer, and tons and tons of radios. All of this in a little over 4 years

SOMETHING in the electrical system was causing havoc on just about anything connected to it.
 
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