Nothing Stops the Golf Game

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Date:13-JUN-2022
Time:c. 07:25
Type:
Silhouette image of generic P06T model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different

Tecnam P2006T
Owner/operator:Marsh Equipment LLC
Registration:N973GV
MSN:253/US
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage:Minor
Location:Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO -
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United States of America
Phase:En route
Nature:Training
Departure airport:Broomfield-Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, CO (BJC/KBJC)
Destination airport:Broomfield-Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, CO (BJC/KBJC)
Confidence Rating:
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Information is only available from news or social media reports
Narrative:
After squawking 7700 for an in-flight emergency, a Tecnam P2006T force landed at the Fox Hollow Golf Course, Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, collapsing the nose landing gear.
No reported injuries.

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How many yards can you add to your drive at 9500'MSL? Is it proportional to how high you are above the single engine service ceiling of a normally aspirated light twin?
 
#2 is feathered, #1 is still on pitch. That's a good indicator that it wasn't a double flameout.
 
Many a time at KDVT. -200fpm OEI. Fun times.
I remember doing ATP training in a Seminole for a pointy nose pilot at IWA. The PTS required a single engine missed approach all the way to the hold. I set the simulated engine out MP, he flew the approach, tried to go missed, and we could barely hold altitude. We flew the length of the runway at 150' as I was slowly bumping MP and telling the guy to pretend it was still "inop". We finally achieved a 200 FPM climb at 16" and flew that to the hold. Shortly thereafter, the flight school came out with a new policy prohibiting us from doing simulated SE missed approaches.

I guess the old adage is true. The second engine is only good for getting you to the crash site.
 
I remember doing ATP training in a Seminole for a pointy nose pilot at IWA. The PTS required a single engine missed approach all the way to the hold. I set the simulated engine out MP, he flew the approach, tried to go missed, and we could barely hold altitude. We flew the length of the runway at 150' as I was slowly bumping MP and telling the guy to pretend it was still "inop". We finally achieved a 200 FPM climb at 16" and flew that to the hold. Shortly thereafter, the flight school came out with a new policy prohibiting us from doing simulated SE missed approaches.

I guess the old adage is true. The second engine is only good for getting you to the crash site.
Piston twins should never have been certified, same as rubber band powered airplanes. :)
 
Piston twins should never have been certified, same as rubber band powered airplanes. :)
I knew a bunch of the people involved in The Rubber Bandit. Van Nuys used to be a much different place. I declined an invitation to join in their fun. Watching them oil and wind up the rubber bands using a tractor with a PTO and knowing how much potential energy was being stored and how uncontrollably it could suddenly become kinetic led me to evacuate the premises post haste. The fuselage was literally a repurposed flag pole. If memory serves at one point the thing did become a bit unruly during one of their tests and although no one got hurt a bunch of people stopped volunteering. I bet it would have flown fine, but those rubber bands were extremely dangerous and luckily no one got hurt.
 
I knew a bunch of the people involved in The Rubber Bandit. Van Nuys used to be a much different place. I declined an invitation to join in their fun. Watching them oil and wind up the rubber bands using a tractor with a PTO and knowing how much potential energy was being stored and how uncontrollably it could suddenly become kinetic led me to evacuate the premises post haste. The fuselage was literally a repurposed flag pole. If memory serves at one point the thing did become a bit unruly during one of their tests and although no one got hurt a bunch of people stopped volunteering. I bet it would have flown fine, but those rubber bands were extremely dangerous and luckily no one got hurt.
Pepperidge Farm 'members. Still, rubber bands -at least the kind you buy at a typical notions store- are almost like, but kinda different from corn starch or thixotropic mud. You know, non-Newtonian fluids - weird solid-in-fluid suspensions that act very strangely, in situ or in vitro.

Synthetic rubber bands act in reverse of the expected. Their entropy actually reduces as they are stretched, and is magnified as they release. I know... go figure! (and, yeah, you'll need to do a whole lot of figuring!)

So, yeah, science is weird; And we should NEVER build airplanes with rubber band engines, regardless how carbon-neutral they claim to be. :)
 
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I remember doing ATP training in a Seminole for a pointy nose pilot at IWA. The PTS required a single engine missed approach all the way to the hold. I set the simulated engine out MP, he flew the approach, tried to go missed, and we could barely hold altitude. We flew the length of the runway at 150' as I was slowly bumping MP and telling the guy to pretend it was still "inop". We finally achieved a 200 FPM climb at 16" and flew that to the hold. Shortly thereafter, the flight school came out with a new policy prohibiting us from doing simulated SE missed approaches.

I guess the old adage is true. The second engine is only good for getting you to the crash site.
Whenever I depart DIJ or JAC in the summer at MGTOW I’ve just always figured the extra engine opened up a wider variety of potential crash (landing) sites. I think of it as expanding the engine out radius if you were in a single.
 
Whenever I depart DIJ or JAC in the summer at MGTOW I’ve just always figured the extra engine opened up a wider variety of potential crash (landing) sites. I think of it as expanding the engine out radius if you were in a single.

But the maneuvering loss restricts your options as does a higher Vso
 
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