Cabanaboy Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Close one, ck density altitude.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD1T97UqMMU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiser Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 keyboard strokes are free here. It sure would be nice to have a little more description of these link messages. This one is of a high wing taildragger clipping some fir trees on climb out at the edge of a lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Avalle Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 I had seen this video before. I don't the exact circumstances, but from what I remember the guy did misjudged the density altitude and overloaded the plane. But thanks God he was able to learn from his mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmyfm20s Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 It looks to me like he needs to start triming the tree better on his runway or maybe that's what he was doing:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyair Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 That looks like Concrete WA. 3w5. They have a fly in every July, and there is a cool museum there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyair Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Oopsie, I am commenting the wrong video. YouTube sucked me into a stream of videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 YouTube sucked me into a stream of videos. Join the club! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabanaboy Posted April 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Yeah, you're right, Im not sure why it is not showing the video preview. All the description i would provide is in the subject line so it does not spoil what you will see if you watch. keyboard strokes are free here. It sure would be nice to have a little more description of these link messages. This one is of a high wing taildragger clipping some fir trees on climb out at the edge of a lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 sucked in , I just watched three density altitude videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2015 Report Share Posted November 22, 2015 A PERFECT candidate for a JATO unit. My father always told me, "there are plenty of old pilots in this world, and there are some bold pilots. But they're aren't any old bold pilots." Its part of the Darwin effect and it keeps our pilot species leaned out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marauder Posted November 22, 2015 Report Share Posted November 22, 2015 It looks to me like he needs to start triming the tree better on his runway or maybe that's what he was doing:) I think that what he did... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrach Posted November 23, 2015 Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 17 hours ago, Barcho said: A PERFECT candidate for a JATO unit. My father always told me, "there are plenty of old pilots in this world, and there are some bold pilots. But they're aren't any old bold pilots." Its part of the Darwin effect and it keeps our pilot species leaned out. It's an old saying, fortunately or unfortunately, I know of a few pilots that are "old and bold". Most are in their 70s and 80s now. All of them are ATPs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 I have personally known two pilots with low level waivers. One died getting his waiver renewed, the other rolled his SUV on the interstate answering his phone . . . . Ya'll be careful out there! Fly safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlunseth Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Just a word to the wise. We have a lot of lakes here in MN, and lakes suck. Literally. The cold water means the air column above the lake is going to be cooler than the surrounding air, creating a downdraft, or at least less updraft than the surrounding land mass. The same thing happens at "bluff" airports at some times of the day, meaning airports that are up on a bluff somewhere. It is a somewhat different mechanism from "lake suck," downslope flow develops usually in the evening but at other times of the day also. Doesn't always happen and it is not a big change most of the time, but it happens enough you need to watch out for it. My home field, KFCM, is a bluff airport and I once saw an instantaneous loss of 10 kts. on takeoff in a Warrior the moment I got out over the downslope. When I took my commercial, word was the examiner liked to take people to an airport called Maple Lake for the performance landings. I went out there and did some practice and could see why. The approach to the west facing runway was entirely over a good sized lake which meant no good ground reference to judge altitude during something like a power off 180, and of course the lake sucked, so the lift was poor out over the lake and changed immediately when you got over the runway. To top it off, the runway has a downslope and it was particularly sharp right at the approach end, so if you had to try stick a power off 180 within minus 0 plus 200 feet of the approach end, it was a real challenge. Took some practice. Then, of course, we went someplace else during the checkride. It did not look like that was the problem in the video, but I would not want to make a marginal high density altitude takeoff that goes out over a lake like that guy did, regardless of what the POH says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlifeflyer Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 1 hour ago, jlunseth said: Just a word to the wise. We have a lot of lakes here in MN, and lakes suck. Literally. The cold water means the air column above the lake is going to be cooler than the surrounding air, creating a downdraft, or at least less updraft than the surrounding land mass. The same thing happens at "bluff" airports at some times of the day, meaning airports that are up on a bluff somewhere. It is a somewhat different mechanism from "lake suck," downslope flow develops usually in the evening but at other times of the day also. That is an excellent point. It's something we talk about during basic mountain training in Colorado. This, for example, is the airport at Glenwood Springs, CO (KGWS). The airport is in a canyon, the runway raised up, and you can see the Roaring Fork River (brrrr!) crossing short final (the photo is north on the bottom for some reason - the norm is to land on 32 and takeoff on 14). Even without a northerly wind, the sink can make things a real challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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