lqbanotxano
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Last Friday, an RV10, after an engine out, declared an emergency. He was 15 mins from home, IFR at 3,500 & over a cloud layer. Houston Approach told him to turn back towards an airport he could not make. He came through the clouds & broke out directly over our airport. I don't know why the airport was not on their charts. This is a grass field where our group & EAA chapter meet every Saturday to fly & or shoot the bull. He executed a dead stick landing…no injuries no damage. Aluminum gas line… 58 hours….broken an inch from the end…from vibration. The line went engine to engine not airframe to engine. For the field repair he used aluminum again but with a “loop†in the line. For the permanent line, he will be using a flex line.
This RV10 is from another airfield I also hang out at…Pearland Regional. I have been checking out this plane the entire time it was being built.You should see this RV10. It has everything…including DVD players behind both front seat head supports…for the rear passengers. It even has air-conditioning.
This other group of friends this airport all fly RV’s…they tolerate me. I actually got to sit at one of their formation flying seminars. Very interesting….I am not going to be doing formation flying….believe me. Man, you can’t believe how intense it is. There is very little radio work…it is mostly hand & head signals. The leader flies, his wingman must not take his eyes off of the leader for even a split second. One hast to work all control by feel. The other planes do the same. One pilot watching another who is watching another who is watching another. The leader must plan all his moves in advance & notify his followers, again, mostly by hand & head signals. The all fly very close to each other, only feet away.
Ivan from Sugar Land, Texas
Sand, sand, fill, sand, sand, fill, itch, itch…finishing work on my new holy cowl.
This RV10 is from another airfield I also hang out at…Pearland Regional. I have been checking out this plane the entire time it was being built.You should see this RV10. It has everything…including DVD players behind both front seat head supports…for the rear passengers. It even has air-conditioning.
This other group of friends this airport all fly RV’s…they tolerate me. I actually got to sit at one of their formation flying seminars. Very interesting….I am not going to be doing formation flying….believe me. Man, you can’t believe how intense it is. There is very little radio work…it is mostly hand & head signals. The leader flies, his wingman must not take his eyes off of the leader for even a split second. One hast to work all control by feel. The other planes do the same. One pilot watching another who is watching another who is watching another. The leader must plan all his moves in advance & notify his followers, again, mostly by hand & head signals. The all fly very close to each other, only feet away.
Ivan from Sugar Land, Texas
Sand, sand, fill, sand, sand, fill, itch, itch…finishing work on my new holy cowl.
