ChasenSFO
hen teaser
So I was preflighting at SQL yesterday and its a pretty strong x-wind. I hear a guy taking off and I look over to see how he does. I see a Cardinal RG slowly climbing away crabbing quite a bit, then when he gets to maybe 100-150 feet, I hear "POP POP!", and his engine quits. He shoves the nose down, but its all residential with no open spaces to land at such a low altitude, I was just thinking "OMGZ HE'S GONNA CRASH". Luckily, engine restarts, gear comes up, he recovers and climbs away maybe 60 feet AGL, over a busy road. I see him land a few minutes later and turn off the runway, I just thought to myself how lucky the guy was and how I should always be ready for something to go wrong after rotation. Then as I'm checking the fuel a few minutes later, guess who's taking off AGAIN? And not just taking off, flaps 10 and a shortfield takeoff. He does another trip around the pattern, then lands and parks.
My question. What in the HELL was he thinking? Engine just quit on him, he came very close to crushing commuters on the way home, lands safely, then takes off again? Why? All balls and no brains? I know if I were him that takeoff would have had me shaking and probably not flying again for the next few days, at least in THAT airplane.
Over the past day I've been thinking about it, just thinking what made him think it was a good idea to keep playing around with short field takeoffs after he almost loses power? I come up with nothing. Ideas?
My question. What in the HELL was he thinking? Engine just quit on him, he came very close to crushing commuters on the way home, lands safely, then takes off again? Why? All balls and no brains? I know if I were him that takeoff would have had me shaking and probably not flying again for the next few days, at least in THAT airplane.
Over the past day I've been thinking about it, just thinking what made him think it was a good idea to keep playing around with short field takeoffs after he almost loses power? I come up with nothing. Ideas?