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LANCECASPER
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What I don't get on this one is that the news reports say he took off from Lakeland on the way to Gainesville, was having engine trouble so went all the way to Tampa (his home base?)? There were a lot

MooneyMitch
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Some things look smaller under water .....especially when water is cold . 

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When I was taking my ATP checkride, I told the DE about when I was training and we feathered an engine. Then we couldn't get it started. The Seneca was having a hard time maintaining altitude. It was,

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Shadrach Grand Master

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That’s weird. The submerged plane in the photo surely looks like a short body but the only Mooney in that vicinity this morning was a TLS. Track stops right around the ditch area with a final pressure altitude of -200ft. 

 

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201Steve Mentor

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Wow. I was flying to Zephyrhills today and heard the back end of a transmission that left me scratching my head:

Unknown A/C: “a sea plane picked him up”

ATC: That’s great news. 


Now I understand!

MooneyMitch Grand Master

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7 hours ago, Shadrach said:

That’s weird. The submerged plane in the photo surely looks like a short body but the only Mooney in that vicinity this morning was a TLS.

Some things look smaller under water .....especially when water is cold . :lol:

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LANCECASPER Grand Master

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What I don't get on this one is that the news reports say he took off from Lakeland on the way to Gainesville, was having engine trouble so went all the way to Tampa (his home base?)? There were a lot of places to land in between and figure it out.

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I remember flying 20+ years ago from Georgia back to Texas with a friend, and the engine stumbled a little. He was a mechanic and I said, "What do you think?". He said. "I think I see an airport, that's what I think." It was good we landed. We landed at Peachtree DeKalb, spent the night and figured it out the next day. One mag failed. The lesson I took away that day is that I would rather be wrong and make a precautionary landing than be wrong when I continued on.

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bradp Grand Master

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Isn’t there a big old engine shop at Zephyrillis ? 
 

If … if this is the decision it is beyond dumb in terms of ADM. 
 

Glad nobody got killed. 

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aviatoreb Grand Master

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Weird - 

my wife and mother in law were at the Tampa beach maybe 5 years ago and they saw a small experimental biplane single seater land in the water right there just off the beach and sink in maybe 10 ft of water.  No injuries.  

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Isn’t there a big old engine shop at Zephyrillis ? 
 
If … if this is the decision it is beyond dumb in terms of ADM. 
 
Glad nobody got killed. 

He didn’t have a problem till well past Zephyrhills, and when he was descending he had plenty of speed (2x best glide), FWIW.
Looks like he was heading to one of the other Tampa airports, the flight north was probably just waiting for class Bravo clearance.
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20 minutes ago, ArtVandelay said:


He didn’t have a problem till well past Zephyrhills, and when he was descending he had plenty of speed (2x best glide), FWIW.
Looks like he was heading to one of the other Tampa airports, the flight north was probably just waiting for class Bravo clearance.

Thanks Art -  of course all conjecture at this point.  The reason I jumped on that was that there was an apparent diversion from the ori destination Gainesville, reported for “engine problems” and the aircraft appears to have  passed by at least a couple of options.

That “Land as soon as practicable” quote in the POH…

A lot of these engines are going to be rife with mechanical issues after periods of relative under utilization during all the lockdowns.  My plane with a blown up lifter is a good cautionary example.  

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LANCECASPER Grand Master

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8 hours ago, GEE-BEE AEROPRODUCTS said:

I have no trust in tcm engines , for the value of myself and family is why I fly a turbine .

After forty years, the quality is crap 

GB

This one was a Lycoming

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FloridaMan Grand Master

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9 hours ago, ArtVandelay said:


He didn’t have a problem till well past Zephyrhills, and when he was descending he had plenty of speed (2x best glide), FWIW.
Looks like he was heading to one of the other Tampa airports, the flight north was probably just waiting for class Bravo clearance.

I frequently would fly between TPF and LAL. Generally I go up to 3500ft off of LAL and then have a gradual cruise descent to get under the bravo. A lot of pilots have complained about the 1200ft ceiling covering tampa bay for the lack of safety. The good news is that the tampa controllers almost always will give you bravo clearance. 

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14 hours ago, LANCECASPER said:

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/icon-a5-serves-well-as-a-rescue-plane-for-ditched-mooney-in-florida/?MailingID=771&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Icon+A5+Rescue+Mission%2C+SNF+CEO+to+Retire&utm_campaign=Icon+A5+Rescue+Mission%2C+SNF+CEO+to+Retire+-+Wednesday%2C+November+17%2C+2021

 

Great job Ms. Genesah Duffy!   And its nice to see the Icon A5 get some positive press - I thought that was a super cool and innovatively safe design that almost got tanked by the company selling to the reckless idiot market.  

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MooneyMitch Grand Master

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57 minutes ago, DXB said:

Great job Ms. Genesah Duffy!   And its nice to see the Icon A5 get some positive press - I thought that was a super cool and innovatively safe design that almost got tanked by the company selling to the reckless idiot market.  

Fortunately, for businesses that sell all sorts of things, the world is full of reckless idiots ! :D

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Rick Junkin Mentor

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Here's an AOPA "There I was..." podcast interview with the pilot, Lynn McNorton, and Ganesha Duffy that gives the first person story. Some good lessons (re)learned and a great story of keeping your cool and executing in a stress environment. It's Episode #42.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/podcasts/podcasts/there-i-was?utm_source=epilot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=asi+products

Cheers,
Rick

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