Opps!
- Thread starter mshunter
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Nope. It's only about 15mins old. It's "fresh."
Edit to add: I got connections! :bandit:
Stomp16
You mean Shennanigans?!?!
TFaudree_ERAU
Mashin' dem buttons
Baronpilot244
Killick Stoker
Crockrocket94
Well-Known Member
Haha old Seminole with the single nose bulb.
Glad everyone walked away from it (or at least it looks like the did)
Glad everyone walked away from it (or at least it looks like the did)
Murdoughnut
Well sized member
The flight school I got my private at bought a seminole a couple of years ago. One day when walking to my chickenhawk, I waved to a couple of guys going out on it.
Coming back from Cedar Key later that day, I called up Crystal River to report passing in their vicinity. Voice came back letting me know the field was closed. Turns out the guys I waved to were doing touch and go's up there. The student went to adjust the flaps on the go and grabbed the gear switch instead. I guess there was enough lift to disengage the squat switch, so the gear came up and they pancaked. Plane looked exactly the same afterwards.
Coming back from Cedar Key later that day, I called up Crystal River to report passing in their vicinity. Voice came back letting me know the field was closed. Turns out the guys I waved to were doing touch and go's up there. The student went to adjust the flaps on the go and grabbed the gear switch instead. I guess there was enough lift to disengage the squat switch, so the gear came up and they pancaked. Plane looked exactly the same afterwards.
http://cbs2.com/video/?id=139180%40kcbs.dayport.com
Engine quit on take off. Forgot to put the gear back down. I guess "Out of usable runway, gear up" was missed on this one.
Edit to add: Thats if the news report was right. We all know how well they report the truth.
Engine quit on take off. Forgot to put the gear back down. I guess "Out of usable runway, gear up" was missed on this one.
Edit to add: Thats if the news report was right. We all know how well they report the truth.
Mike H
Well-Known Member
I don't understand how anybody can do this, since the flap handle is a lever way down on the floor and the gear selector is a switch on the instrument panel.
amjon
Pilot and A Half (for now
I think in a Seminole, they are both on the floor. Senecas have flaps on the floor, gear on the panel.
N519AT
Ahh! This is how I change this!
In all of the Seminoles that I flew the gear selector is on the panel to the left of the throttle quad.
Flaps are controlled by a johnson bar on the floor.
jhugz
Well-Known Member
Yep even the newer ones are like this to my knowledge.
amjon
Pilot and A Half (for now
OK. I've never been in one but was discussing flaps vs landing gear with the CP yesterday and thought he said the Seminole was one that could get confused.
Stomp16
You mean Shennanigans?!?!
:yeahthat:
WalterSobchak
Well-Known Member
If all three are up in a seminole on the ground. Typically thats the way the gear handle was at the time of the incident. Pretty fool proof system in the seminole.
BillErvin
Peddling as fast as I can
Looks to me like both engines were working??
I'm sure the press was talking to someone that thought they knew what they were talking about
...... both props on both sides are curled up like they would be if both were under power. If one engine quit wouldn't only one would be curled? Even a windmilling prop would most likely stop on the first blade to hit the ground and only curl one side and it would most likely be curled under the cowling.