How to land a plane in Tasmania

[drron]

They do things differently down here-
Tasmania MP Bryan Green in plane drama | Courier Mail

• • MP, journalists in plane crash landing
  • Plane skidded without landing gear
  • Pilot "seemed to forget to lower wheels"

 

[NM]

oops

 

[bossreggie]

Landing FAIL!

 

[straitman]

Landing FAIL!

Not really.

They landed and walked away :!: :shock:

 

[Flying Fox]

Landing FAIL!

Then again I've heard any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Funny - The pilot has admitted the crash-landing was caused by human error.

Bad day at the office

 

[straitman]

Then again I've heard any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Funny - The pilot has admitted the crash-landing was caused by human error.

Bad day at the office

From personal experience I have to say that to do a wheels up landing is surprisingly easy. I have nearly done it and many others have succeeded.

In Oct 1974 a Mirage Fighter (A3-16) tried a touch and go at Tullamarine with the wheels up and came to a grinding halt and blocked the main runway for quite a while. The explanation from the pilot (Nick Ford) was poor weather and a high work load which sounds very familiar to this incident. I guess the big difference was the mirage touched down at around 180 - 190 kts. Nick was lucky to walk away and he acknowledged it.

In this case a high work load due weather and potentially missing one item on the check list has led to this situation.

Another famous Wheels up landing was in Oct 1970 when an F4-E did a wheels up landing at Amberley. The wheels up pictures are toward the bottom of the page and it's a long page. RAAF Phantoms.

 

[bossreggie]

Then again I've heard any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Funny - The pilot has admitted the crash-landing was caused by human error.

Yes... I read that. I would have thought certain things, in certain roles, would have been absolute "No Brainers".

Prison Warden - Lock Doors
Surgeon - Close Wounds
Politician - Lie your @rse off
Pilot - Lower Gear

 

[straitman]

Yes... I read that. I would have thought certain things, in certain roles, would have been absolute "No Brainers".

Prison Warden - Lock Doors
Surgeon - Close Wounds
Politician - Lie your @rse off
Pilot - Lower Gear

I wish.

I was only spared by good procedures and an aircraft with a good reliable warning system.

 

[jb747]

Very easy to do.

A Macchi was landed gear up at Geraldton many moons ago...

 

[markis10]

Check Wheels is a mandatory instruction to go along with a landing clearance given to Military aircraft by civilian ATC. When I worked at Bankstown we had a wheelsup landing every couple of months.

 

[yohy?!]

More tassie pilot fun

Plane lands on Hobart highway - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[straitman]

Very easy to do.

A Macchi was landed gear up at Geraldton many moons ago...

The aircraft was forever twisted after that and a real bas***d to fly IF. If the front was balanced the back was not and vice versa.

 

[jb747]

The aircraft was forever twisted after that and a real bas***d to fly IF. If the front was balanced the back was not and vice versa.

Do you remember what course it was?

Post LOTEX they were all like that. They broke up the wing pairings, and converted a lovely spinner, into something that could really bite.

 

[straitman]

Do you remember what course it was?

Post LOTEX they were all like that. They broke up the wing pairings, and converted a lovely spinner, into something that could really bite.

No unfortunately. We arrived at Pearce in July 1970 and it was already bent then. I was thinking it was A7-11 but that does not fit with this list and I cannot find mention anywhere else. ADF Aircraft Serial Numbers, RAAF A7 / RAN N14, CAC CA-30 Macchi MB-326H

A7-037 was a guy from my pilot's course on his first night solo unfortunately

 

[jb747]

No unfortunately. We arrived at Pearce in July 1970 and it was already bent then. I was thinking it was A7-11 but that does not fit with this list and I cannot find mention anywhere else. ADF Aircraft Serial Numbers, RAAF A7 / RAN N14, CAC CA-30 Macchi MB-326H

A7-037 was a guy from my pilot's course on his first night solo unfortunately

We took care of A7-51.

Sadly I got a note just the other day to the effect that the instructor involved had just passed away. The student broke both his legs, and was back coursed by 2 courses. Sadly he was killed in a car accident a couple of weeks prior to graduation.

 

[straitman]

We took care of A7-51.

Sadly I got a note just the other day to the effect that the instructor involved had just passed away. The student broke both his legs, and was back coursed by 2 courses. Sadly he was killed in a car accident a couple of weeks prior to graduation.

jb747,

We are getting waaaay off topic here so I will send you a PM later.

Got to go for now.

 

[rwatts]

jb747,

We are getting waaaay off topic here so I will send you a PM later.

Got to go for now.

Maybe OT but nonetheless fascinating for me as a lurker Richard.

 

[straitman]

Maybe OT but nonetheless fascinating for me as a lurker Richard.

Thanks Richard.

Maybe we can have a discussion along these lines some other time.