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10-01-2013, 11:44 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Knoxville, TN
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Ditto to all the previous comments. Glad you are fine, excellent flying and thank you for sharing the experience.
Gus
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10-01-2013, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Charlotte NC
Posts: 1,166
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I would also make sure the fuel vent system on that tank is clear.
George
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10-01-2013, 12:18 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: WI
Posts: 76
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Fuel tank vents were checked and clear.
I'm not entirely sure if it was "slosh" or not. What were the options in 1991?
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10-01-2013, 12:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,761
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Slosh was recommended up until the mid nineties. I don't remember the exact year, but I completed 2 RV-6s in '93 and it was recommended then.
I have removed slosh from a number of RV tanks.
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10-01-2013, 12:25 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: WI
Posts: 76
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Thank you for the kind words. I had waited a full month to post on this as it was very hard to even talk about it, let alone write it up. I was pretty sure I was going to get raked thru the coals by the experts, so some kind words are nice...
I did think of one more thing:
1. Get a glider rating! My first actual rating was Private Pilot-Glider (even though I had soloed in power first). I learned a great deal about energy management and weather, not to mention power off landings by learning to fly gliders. For PP-SEL pilots, its only a check ride after you get the required dual time in, no written!
You also spend quite a bit of time learning what fields are good to land in and not, and you constantly have a scan going for landing fields.
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10-01-2013, 12:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Aptos, CA (previously Reno, 21 years!)
Posts: 247
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I will second the glider rating comment. It adds a level of finesse to propeller trained GA pilots that many would normally not get to experience/develop until jet experience, where you "fly the wing" entirely much like a glider. I have taken a year or two off glider flying but plan to do some soaring again from time to time for the rest of my flying days. It's different and a lot of fun.
MedFlight, I bet when your "glider senses" picked up on the energy dissipating (speed, sink, attitude), you properly just snapped back into "oh, I'm in some serious sink" mode (well experienced already in gliders probably), got the nose down, and saved your energy for the flare. Bob Hoover preaches the same thing... never stop flying the plane and never ever stall before you are ready to touch tierra firma (or trees, etc) You did what it took when it counted. Well done!
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10-01-2013, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: WI
Posts: 76
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The other lesson I forgot to mention:
It was good for me to get back in the saddle as soon as I could. Within about 4-5 days after the accident I got checked out in the FBO J-3 Cub and 172 and have been flying as much as I can to make things right in the world again...
Ryan in Madison
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10-01-2013, 01:15 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Keller, TX
Posts: 1,553
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Glad you're ok. As someone who has experienced partial loss of power I can only say it is scary when things are shaking and not developing power.
Please update this thread if and when the mechanics or next owner finds some root cause.
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10-01-2013, 01:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,452
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Thanks
Like others have said, glad you are ok and thanks for sharing. It is only through forums like this and honesty and open discussions that we can all work to fly safer, and have more fun and less accidents.
Dont give up on experimentals. I have been up in a few cessnas....what a step backwards. DONT GO TO THE DARK SIDE!
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