Forced Landing Poll

[aggiepilot87]

Not high on hours at ~1250 nor terribly serious issues, but I've experienced two forced landings in singles. One was due to a cowling that came apart and the other a rapidly rising oil temp. No multi shutdowns in ~200 hrs. One instance was while receiving training and the other was while giving it. Made it to an airport both times, thankfully. I'd imagine off-airport landings could sure be a hassle.

 

[V-1]

One of our Chieftains had a prop feather itself in flight while the engine was running (and continued to run). Wish I could take credit for that one!

3600 in piston airplanes/0 failures.

 

[RJFlyer]

One cylinder failure directly over an airport at about 100 hrs. None since. Learned to ALWAYS know where the nearest suitable landing spot is.

 

[eriknorth]

hey you said anybody...
3.3 hours, no failures

 

[chperplt]

One of our 1900s had a prop feather on the takeoff roll with the engine still running.. Had another one go into ground fine at 50 feet.. That wasn't fun!!

1000 or so piston/ 1 electrical fire

 

[Tim47SIP]

In 2700 hours of piston time (2300 as a CFI/CFII/MEI), one forced landing, fortunately directly over an airport. Broken valve. My brother, with about 4000 total piston time has had one. That was in a Cherokee Six that we both owned so it could of happened a second time to me. Again, directly over an airport, cylinder came loose.

 

[dav8or]

One multi engine shutdown resulting in a landing (density alt above SE ceiling) Made it to a private strip.

One split flap in the pattern 172.

One blown oil seal in a 152 made it back to the field under power.

952hrs piston

 

[Simon Says]

1350 Total Piston with one forced landing on a freeway.

4000 turbine with 33 engine failures/fires........about half of those are v1 cuts. Sometimes we had smoke in the cockpit. 4 dual engine failures. Only 1 approach down to mins with the peanut gauges, all sorts of hydraulic failures resulting in split flaps, fluid leaks, and not able to get the gear down. Hmmm.........come to think about it that was all in the sim. So I have about 4000 turbine hours with zero engine failures. Hope that helps

 

[V-1]

Yeah, the simulators my company uses are pieces of crap too. You'd think a fifteen million dollar video game would be able to get from point A to point B without catching on fire, losing cabin pressure, having engine seizures, etc. multiple times on the way!

 

[SLCPilot]

1300 TT
0 shutdowns

 

[dav8or]

I forgot about the time I had one engine out, the other on fire, lav smoke, cargo smoke, everything else either broken or on fire including the f/a. Take my advise never fly a sim. They are too dangerous

 

[aggiepilot87]

4000 turbine with 33 engine failures/fires........about half of those are v1 cuts. Sometimes we had smoke in the cockpit. 4 dual engine failures. Only 1 approach down to mins with the peanut gauges, all sorts of hydraulic failures resulting in split flaps, fluid leaks, and not able to get the gear down. Hmmm.........come to think about it that was all in the sim.

I was beginning to wonder what operation you flew with... had me going for a while! good one!!

 

[TDTURBO]

I am still stuck behind that stationary front returning from the Cayman Islands in Kissimee, FL. So far, 560/0, but I still gotta make it back to Chicago...knock on wood!

This **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** line of thundersorms hasn't moved in 3 days! I am sick of staying in hotels every 100 miles.

 

[RJones]

Only one military pilot...humm. Of course, no pistons.

1800 hours single engine piston, one complete engine failure (about 800 hours since new), 3 partial, cylinders.

0 Multi-engine piston failures.

Are we going to include turbine stuff as well?

RJ

 

[Nightwing]

1300 PISTON. No failures.

 

[fly4ever]

Forced Landings

3500+ SEL

3 forced landings all in SEL aircraft, 2 back to airport, 1 on a gravel road

 

[AV1ATRX]

I haven't actually looked in my logbook, but I've got somewhere between 1700-1800 piston hours (that's all of my hours, too) and I've never had to shut one down, although I've come really close a few times. Single engine - major loss of oil on a 5 mile final to a 9000 ft runway. The windscreen was completely covered, so I had to open the door (on a Cherokee) with a student flying and give her taxi directions. The other time I wanted to shut down but made it back under power was a governor on the Navajo that decided to do it's own thing. Thankfully, all my engine out stuff has been SIMULATED, so far. I'm now knocking on my computer table, which is made of wood....

This has been a really interesting thread.

 

[enigma]

1000 hours recip. Zero forced landings

6000 turbine. One forced landing

 

[Flightist]

Thanks everyone for your responses! I'll post some perliminary results. I've used figures from 27 people that gave both their number of failures that did or would have resulted in a forced landing. I had to do a little subjective interpretation on a few. One note: I thought it would be good to limit this to piston or reciprocating craft because I assumed Turbine aircraft especially the big ones many of you fly would skew the results to fewer average failures and I was personally more interested in the risks of what I was flying. It might make an interesting Poll to assess Turbine only or combine it all.

So with 27 people so far a total of 51,500.3 hours. Average Piston time of people responding 1907.3 hrs. Average numbers of hours per failure that did or would have resulted in a forced landing: 2060.01 hrs. Keep those responses coming in. Anyone who wants to relate the details of a particular engine failure and/or forced landing, I'm sure the rest of us would find it educational, especially us rookies. Thanks Again!

 

[TurboS7]

This didn't happen to me but it happened to one of our pilots He did such a good job that I thought I would tell his story. He was in a C-206F returning from SDF to DPA. It was VFR at night about 3A.M. in the morning. He was at 4500MSL flying along when all of the sudden he lost oil pressure. He went for the nearest airport, as he got close he realized that he didn't have enough altiutude to line up with the runway. So he did the smartest thing, he figured that he would just touchdown on the airport somewhere. Remember it is pitch black out. He touched down on the runway about 70 degrees to it. Jumped the ditch on the other side and ran into a corn field. The corn stopped him in about 150 feet. With the exception of having to change out the engine there was no damage to the aircraft. The FAA gave him an attaboy on that one. The pilot excersised superb judgement by not doing any low level turning to make the runway. He did a great job.