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Gentlemen,It is with regret and much chagrin I announce that I have once again modified G2066, this time for the worse.Image Insert:
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Nicholas.I'm sorry about your gyro, I have done this myself a few times and can only blame myself, but it still does not make it easy.Always thankful nobody was hurt except ones own pride and bank account.Graeme Monro.
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Nicholas.I'm sorry about your gyro, I have done this myself a few times and can only blame myself, but it still does not make it easy.Always thankful nobody was hurt except ones own pride and bank account.Graeme Monro.
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Sorry to hear the bird had a hard landing Nick. You are now eligible to join the 'Mad Dog' club by unsucessfully attempting to stretch out your glide when you had a perfectly good landing spot below. Good to hear you are just fine though (arn't gyros great) and the phoenix will fly again.PeteBairnsdale,Vic.
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Sorry to hear the bird had a hard landing Nick. You are now eligible to join the 'Mad Dog' club by unsucessfully attempting to stretch out your glide when you had a perfectly good landing spot below. Good to hear you are just fine though (arn't gyros great) and the phoenix will fly again.PeteBairnsdale,Vic.
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GraemeI was warmly welcomed into the 'bent rotor club' by one of its members, and was offered a beer to cool me off after my 3.something km trapse through a paddock and playing steeple chase over the fences back to the Manilla Sky Ranch, I ran half the way back to make sure I got back before dark, snakes are a little easier to avoid in the daylight. Thanks for you comiseration, and you're absolutely right about the pride and the bank account, they're hurting.Ah, Pete...Sorry mate, just to set you straight.. It was a perfect 'full stop' postage stamp landing, no hard landing - in fact a very soft one, no stretching was applied and it was a reasonably steep engine out approach at about 45 kts, a few of the HVGC members might be able to confirm that, the machine was intact when I landed and for about a minute or two after. I screwed up when I tried to taxi to the roadway and the nose wheel broke, that's when it decided to gently flop over and play dead. I decline the 'Mad Dog' club membership if so offered.And yes, you too are right, if I wasn't in a gyro I suspect by large that I might not be sitting here totally free of injury, I was thinking that if I were in a fixed wing I would have been in remarkably large amounts of doo, the ability to pull up on the spot paid its dividends, if I'd had to roll in for landing the same tussock that broke my nose wheel could have done the same to a fixed wing. flipping it over at high speed, ouch. I am glad I made the decision to fly gyro.Cheers,Nick.Nicholas TomlinAlarmist - www.alarmist.com.au - we scare for you
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GraemeI was warmly welcomed into the 'bent rotor club' by one of its members, and was offered a beer to cool me off after my 3.something km trapse through a paddock and playing steeple chase over the fences back to the Manilla Sky Ranch, I ran half the way back to make sure I got back before dark, snakes are a little easier to avoid in the daylight. Thanks for you comiseration, and you're absolutely right about the pride and the bank account, they're hurting.Ah, Pete...Sorry mate, just to set you straight.. It was a perfect 'full stop' postage stamp landing, no hard landing - in fact a very soft one, no stretching was applied and it was a reasonably steep engine out approach at about 45 kts, a few of the HVGC members might be able to confirm that, the machine was intact when I landed and for about a minute or two after. I screwed up when I tried to taxi to the roadway and the nose wheel broke, that's when it decided to gently flop over and play dead. I decline the 'Mad Dog' club membership if so offered.And yes, you too are right, if I wasn't in a gyro I suspect by large that I might not be sitting here totally free of injury, I was thinking that if I were in a fixed wing I would have been in remarkably large amounts of doo, the ability to pull up on the spot paid its dividends, if I'd had to roll in for landing the same tussock that broke my nose wheel could have done the same to a fixed wing. flipping it over at high speed, ouch. I am glad I made the decision to fly gyro.Cheers,Nick.Nicholas TomlinAlarmist - www.alarmist.com.au - we scare for you
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Sorry about the gyro, but good to hear your safe Nick.
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Sorry about the gyro, but good to hear your safe Nick.
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Sorry to hear about your misfortune Nick and yes, after any emergency landing, shut down and walk the area you are going to be taxying etc. It is always good to pull up anyway for 10 minutes to have a think about what has just taken place before takeing off again.Congratulations of a great landing, well done !As far as why the engine lost power, did the engine gain revs once you were on the ground ??? Glad you are okay mate !!!BrianPooncarie NSW
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Sorry to hear about your misfortune Nick and yes, after any emergency landing, shut down and walk the area you are going to be taxying etc. It is always good to pull up anyway for 10 minutes to have a think about what has just taken place before takeing off again.Congratulations of a great landing, well done !As far as why the engine lost power, did the engine gain revs once you were on the ground ??? Glad you are okay mate !!!BrianPooncarie NSW
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I would expect that given where you were flying from and what you did to your machine, you may consider renaming your gyro "the Manilla folder"Im sure that I could get far more mileage out of this one, however, Its not nice to bend a machine and the tight lips and the icey stares from the loved one will haunt you for many moons to come.You may remember my advice about not getting too **** about any one part of your machine?Horribullus
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I would expect that given where you were flying from and what you did to your machine, you may consider renaming your gyro "the Manilla folder"Im sure that I could get far more mileage out of this one, however, Its not nice to bend a machine and the tight lips and the icey stares from the loved one will haunt you for many moons to come.You may remember my advice about not getting too **** about any one part of your machine?Horribullus
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Lloyd,Thank you, I am fine, except I wont be flying for a bit..damn, time out again.Brian,Now you mention it, I did get power, but it was not the full quid, it was a little rough now I come to think of it, that may be a lead on what could be wrong with it. I took the broken prop off the next day and started it, blue smoke on right bank, low oil pressure - 20 psi vs the usual 80, not normal but considering it spent all night sleeping on that side..., though it was a good hour in the upright position being shaken on the way back to the ranch. I've not had a chance to sus it out yet but I will. I might have a problem with one of the pots, I'll add a compression test into the fray and report in due course.Marcus Horribulus,I did laugh, thou art a funny b*st*rd.. I concur but for the fact that it wasn't folded, the rotor skins were crinkled, maybe 'Smith's Crisps' would be more apt. If you want more mileage you'll have to pay even more for the petrol, it isn't cheap these days so it may be a quip at your own expense. I recall your advice about being **** about any one part - I know you mean at the expense of everything else, yes, but I won't put this down to the machine, I'll put it down to one of my moments of extreme dim wittedness interfused with my occasional glimpses of extreme intelligence, the intelligence applied when I landed, the dim witted part took over when I decided to taxi to the road. It was an avoidable outcome I agree, and I assure you it won't happen again. If I had stopped and got out this would be appearing as a precautionary landing incident, not as a damaged gyro incident.Cheers,Nick.Nicholas TomlinAlarmist - www.alarmist.com.au - we scare for you
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Lloyd,Thank you, I am fine, except I wont be flying for a bit..damn, time out again.Brian,Now you mention it, I did get power, but it was not the full quid, it was a little rough now I come to think of it, that may be a lead on what could be wrong with it. I took the broken prop off the next day and started it, blue smoke on right bank, low oil pressure - 20 psi vs the usual 80, not normal but considering it spent all night sleeping on that side..., though it was a good hour in the upright position being shaken on the way back to the ranch. I've not had a chance to sus it out yet but I will. I might have a problem with one of the pots, I'll add a compression test into the fray and report in due course.Marcus Horribulus,I did laugh, thou art a funny b*st*rd.. I concur but for the fact that it wasn't folded, the rotor skins were crinkled, maybe 'Smith's Crisps' would be more apt. If you want more mileage you'll have to pay even more for the petrol, it isn't cheap these days so it may be a quip at your own expense. I recall your advice about being **** about any one part - I know you mean at the expense of everything else, yes, but I won't put this down to the machine, I'll put it down to one of my moments of extreme dim wittedness interfused with my occasional glimpses of extreme intelligence, the intelligence applied when I landed, the dim witted part took over when I decided to taxi to the road. It was an avoidable outcome I agree, and I assure you it won't happen again. If I had stopped and got out this would be appearing as a precautionary landing incident, not as a damaged gyro incident.Cheers,Nick.Nicholas TomlinAlarmist - www.alarmist.com.au - we scare for you
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