Forced Landing Poll

[Lonestar]

1500/0

 

[Africa Pilot]

My 2 cents

In a little over 1100 hours, I've thankfully had no engine failures (only one time I was unable to get an engine restarted after feathering on a C-310), but I did watch the instigator of this poll make a nice one on a road.

 

[flyhi]

1600TT
800 recip/0 forced (thankfully)

 

[328dude]

550 Piston/ One forced landing after swallowing a valve over RVS in Tulsa.

2400 Turbine/ One forced landing due to propeller seperation in flight in a MU-2 outside HOU. Not exactly one of my more enjoyable evenings flying amoungst the birds. The airplane was eventually scraped.

 

[Flightist]

More Results!

I know you've all been on pins and needles waiting for the latest results from this poll, so here it is!

36 respondents that fit the criteria of listing both their total recip. time and # of forced landings or failures that would have resulted in a forced landing.

Total hours of those 36 people: 59,210.3 hrs.
Average piston hours of respondent:1644.73 hrs
Total failures: 28
Average number of hours/failure:2114.64hrs/failure

I wonder if I could get federal funding for this study? Kinda hard making it on CFI wages! If I continue having off-airport landings it could be hard to attract new students, better to think about other sources of income.

Thanks everyone!

 

[ArcticFlier]

2400 TT in recip...........0 total failures..........a couple of precautionary landings at the home airport for engine roughness, etc......that was in a Twin Commanche..........clogged fuel injectors. Had something to do with the lining in the fuel tanks.

AF

 

[DC8Driver]

1500 hrs. 2 forced. One was on a twin and was decending to the airport. One was on a single and engine quit and restarted. This was at 300 feet on T/O.

 

[bigD]

450 hours recip with 50 hours of that being multi. Nothing ever shut down on me that I didn't pull the mixture on first.

::knocks vigorously on wood::