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How "gear down and locked" can ruin your day...

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dseagrav said:
Submerging the airplane is an instant total loss, right?

No. Many planes have been pulled out of fresh water and repaired. depends on how long it's been in.
 
dseagrav said:
Oh, OK. Either way, it can't have been cheap.
No, and the one in the video went over fairly hard. there may have been significant damage from the collision with the water ... so that particular one might have been totalled out. I don't know. It happened up in Fairbanks at a airport called Chena Marina.
 
I always repeat the amphib mantra when landing:

"This is a land landing, gear down."

"This is a water landing, gear up."

Good thing he wasn't in a Catalina.
 
The company I worked at had our seaplane flip. Probably a good thing it gave it a good wash. The biggest way to damage it is flipping it back over.
 
man it hurt to watch that.
 
You'll notice that the underfloat wheels were what precipated the pitching motion, acting as a pivot of sorts over which the inertia of the aircraft toppled as the drag increased on the wheels. You can drop the gear in the water during water taxi, while "plowing," and taxi onto dry land. At those speeds with all the mass of the aircraft on top of the mains, the effect is somewhat like a dynamic rollover in a helicopter, amplified by an order of magnitude or two.
 
Here's a question for you float flyers...

How do you do a runup?
 

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