Video: P-51 Engine Out, Off-Airport Landing (from 2017) - full analysis

GatorFC

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Did a search and didn't see this posted yet.

It's from the AOPA Air Safety Institute, and I thought it was a very informative and candid analysis by the pilot himself about the decisions he made, what he felt he did right and wrong, and the advice he could offer. Good insight into the denial one's first instinct is to a hazardous situation. 35 minutes long, but I could have listened even longer especially if he talked more about the quirks and tricks of flying the Mustang.

British warbird pilot, Mark Levy, was part of a 21-airplane formation in the annual airshow at Duxford, England when the P-51 he was flying had a partial engine out. Levy recorded the entire event on a pair of point-of-view video cameras, and he shared the images, as well as his lessons learned, in a candid discussion with Richard McSpadden, Executive Director of the AOPA Air Safety Institute.

 
Notice that during that long, post-incident 'analysis' no mention was made of what caused the engine to stop. Ya know, like, maybe they ran it out of gas.
 
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