[TheForge] OT update to sometimes stuff just happens

[terry l. ridder]

hello andy;

the part of that report that bothers me is that the plane had sat for
over 3 yrs before my lawyer purchased the plane in january 2012.

why would someone build a plane and let it sit for over 3 yrs?

going by what is mounted on the wall of his office, he is instrument
rated. that does not tell us much of anything about how good a pilot he
was.

he clearly was not familar with the plane.

google "seawind 3000" and look at the numerous images of the plane. the
design is very different.

read the entire wikipedia.org article on the seawind 300c


On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Andrew Vida wrote:

> Hooboy... sounds like a power off stall at low altitude.  That is one of the 
> less promising positions in which to find oneself.  Without sufficient 
> altitude it is nearly impossible to recover.  Was the pilot well experienced? 
> Not saying I would have done better, but the report reads as if to imply the 
> pilot may have panicked and instead of trying to establish an optimum glide 
> path, which is the first thing I was taught to do in emergency procedures, he 
> was reflexively yanking on the yoke in an effort to keep the nose up.
>
> I was once in the pattern in very high winds - way past the max rating for 
> the 152 I was flying, but that day I had a hare up my ass to go flying - yet 
> another one of my stoopid pilot trix.  I came around maybe a dozen times and 
> for a while I was preparing my pants for a fill-up. That feeling of being on 
> the ragged edge of minimal control can be very unnerving. On my last approach 
> the crosswinds, which the FBO was clocking at 38 kts, suddenly died away for 
> a very brief instant just as I was going to gun it for another go around.  I 
> dropped the bitch hard on the tarmac and got tied down ASAP.
>
> When I walked into the office everyone was laughing at me, even the one's 
> who'd bet a considerable sum against my survival.  Yes, they had taken real 
> money bets that I would make a smoking hole at Lincoln Park NJ.  I didn't 
> give a damn because I was still alive to be laughed at.
>
> On 4/11/2012 2:59 PM, terry l. ridder wrote:
>> hello;
>> 
>> below is the url to the preliminary ntsb report.
>> 
>> http://strauss.blauedonau.com/prelim-ntsb-deland-publix-crash-plane-0409.pdf
>> 
>

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terry l. ridder ><>