Anyone Been Suddenly Single Before?

[B-J-J Fighter]

I was flying a 421C for a guy and lost the left one on the takeoff roll and almost wound up in the ditch between the taxiway and the runway. Some how I kept it on the runway and it turned out to be pretty uneventful, just really scared me. I had 3 PAX that I was taking to see the Daytona 500. We ended up skipping the race and taking Airtran back to ATL.

Tell your story, what were you in, what happened, how you handled it, how was the Wx at the time, did you have to shoot an approach, etc, etc.

 

[rumpletumbler]

Daytona. Yeeehaaaaa. I lived on Nova Road for a while in what we called NovaWeed apartments back then. Wonder why we called them that? "scratching head." Yes there we many engine outs on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday days/nights/afternoons/evenings/etc. Sometimes after an engine out we would head over to the VD as we nicknamed it. For you locals it's the Volusia Diner. They had the big a breakfast and as a friend of mine found out a waitress with a gift that kept on giving. He didn't stop there but after his round of medication got another gift at the IHOP over by the speedway. Then I recall the time that I had trouble walking the next day because I had such rug burn on my knees I looked like someone had shot me with a shotgun in each kneecap. Many people whupped into oblivion at the Oyster Pub at the pool tables because students couldn't afford beer but couldn't afford not to drink. Come to think of it, it was just one engine out after another the entire time I lived there. The weather was hot and humid. I shot many approaches. most of the time to minimums. I was not in anything at that time.

RT

Oh, I almost forgot the plane load of whores that came down every year on a charter 727 for the Daytona 500. Some of you guys have probably flown it down or know folks that have.

 

[ShawnC]

Daytona, oh how a loathe this town, I over pay to goto a Unviersity that I don't like in a boring crap hole of a town. Then for about a month or two a year we get invaded, no not the normal snow birds, everything from more college kids, to NASCAR fans, and the old fashion organ donors (idiots on bikes). To top that off the nearest college town is three hours away.

Oh how I wish I went to UF.

And finding ones self suddenly single, I have always been single... heck some times I don't even have one... an engine I mean, in the sailplane.

And those last couple of lines was my crude attempt at humor. Must goto sleep now.

 

[been-there]

No,

but I could kick your A$$

 

[bart]

Lost the turbo on the left one coming out of SDF the other day. The waste gate linkage lost a bolt. Not quite suddenly single... maybe just seperated for awhile, it was enough to make it very difficult to keep it on the runway til I got the power off. That little switch you steer with on that Aerostar is hard enough to keep centerline with symmetric thrust, I think would take some real heroics with a total loss of power on one side.

 

[rumpletumbler]

Any idea if that story about the idiot in daytona beach with the aerostar was true? Evidently he had the door pop open on climbout and shoved him arm out into the slipstream which pushed it back into the prop relieving him of said appendage and he did a radio show before crashing? Sounded a little far fetched to me. I prefer a hoax over an idiot any day.


RT

 

[ShawnC]

Never heard that one, but did you hear about the time a Riddle employee took one of the faculty club aircraft out, came back scud running IMC, 50' max over the shoreline buildings, and when he came to land of 7L he was below the lights of the Daytona 500.

 

[starvingcfi]

ha. i can see the daytona thing. i was with a student my first time into daytona. we were still pretty far out and set up for a long final for the speedway. it looked like the airport to us.

...i'm a dumba$$

 

[ShawnC]

No his Downwind was though the lights, and BTW he wasn't talkin to no one except maybe god.

Well thats the story I heard true or not that shows why you don't fly into IMC.