LOOKED GOOD FROM THE AIR

[Evan]

OK THIS SHOULD PROBABLY GO UNDER STUPID THINGS DONE BUT I FIGURED I WOULD SHARE MY LEARNING EXPERIENCE. FIRST I WAS TOLD SAND CAN BE TRICKY AND NOT LOOK LIKE WHAT IT REALLY IS FROM THE AIR WELL I LEARNED THAT CAN BE TRUE! GLAD I HAD 31 ALK BUSH WHEELS

 

[mvivion]

Uh, Evan, I hate to break this to you, but that SHOULD have looked bad from the air. Site evaluation is half or more the battle when operating off airport.

Looking at beaches from several different angles helps, and looking at them from a low altitude, as opposed to 600 feet....

The Bushwheels are great, but the pilot still has to use some evaluation skills.

MTV

 

[Evan]

WELL I AGREE IT WAS MY FAULT! DEFIANTLY PILOT ERROR,THE STORY ON IT IS , I WAS HEADING TO VICKSBURG MS ONE MORNING AND WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WHERE AND MOTHER NATURE AND THE COFFEE I DRANK THAT MORNING WAS CALLING SO I WAS CLOSE TO THE HOMACHITTA RIVER AND DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO AT LOOK AT IT IT SCARED ME ENOUGH ILL BRING A CLEAN PARE OF UNDIES BEFORE I LAND WITH OUT FLYING IT LOW AND SLOW FIRST

 

[Ruffair]

Time of day, sun angles....... lot's of things can make bad look good....
We live and learn. That's how we get EXPERIENCE.

Better luck next time.

 

[Randyk]

An old-timer once told me to get down low and look at it "down-sun" so you can see the shadows. I never land on a strange field unless I can do that.

 

[SteveE]

Must have been high sun, with no shadows...

Bumpy as hell I bet.

 

[lancef53]

Why the caps??

 

[zane]

Why the caps??

Sometimes ya gotta speak up so MTV can hear ya.

 

[On Patrol]

Being lucky enough to never have had this happen can you tell me the the extent of any damage and what it took to get her out of there.
Thank you for sharing cause I sure understand the CAPS

 

[Louis]

For the story of this one, i would need to perfect my english writing skyll

Louis

 

[mvivion]

Hey, I don't care who you are--sooner or later, sometimes a LOT sooner than later, you wind up discovering something once on the ground that you never saw from the air.

That's one of the real challenges of off airport flying, and we'll all get there sometime or other. I've landed on what looked like a great sandbar in a river, stopped and got out for a biology break, and discovered that, just a few feet in front of the plane was a serious wash that would no doubt have done damage to the plane. I hadn't looked over this very benign looking sand bar well, cause I was....in a hurry.

MTV

 

[SteveE]

John,,, I bet there was no damage,, and he just flew it off,, maybe found a little smoother part of the sand....

Just a bumpy landing.... Thats what I am guessing anyway.

 

[Evan]

Steve that's it just flew it off on a smoother part was just a rough ride

 

[skywagon8a]

The same thing applies to landing on water. I flew low over a white capped Moosehead Lake to check it out one time. It looked rough but not too rough. So, I started to land. As I was touching down it became very obvious that the water was way rougher than it looked from twenty feet. I ended up doing a splash and dash. This was in a Lake LA-4. The roughness was not realized until I was at about two or three feet. In a float plane it would not have been as obvious because the pilots seat is a lot higher.

 

[Grant]

Hey Louis - That should buff out just fine....

 

[Speedo]

For the story of this one, i would need to perfect my english writing skyll

Louis

From the looks of the pictures I'm sure the story will be interesting! Based on the curled prop tips I'd guess the engine was making power, and given that the direction of landing appears to be perpendicular to the direction of the sand berms I'd guess that the pilot misjudged the height of the berms. Looking forward to reading the particulars.

Eric

 

[OLDCROWE]

All they need is a German model airplane designer to make it flyable and a crotchety old bush pilot to fly it out...

 

[zane]

All they need is a German model airplane designer to make it flyable and a crotchety old bush pilot to fly it out...

Ha! That's exactly what I thought when I saw that photo.

 

[AntiCub]

If it's any consolation, a fellow C-150 driver made the same mistake last summer. He'd done the beach landing during the Valdez poker run, so decided to try it on the Tanana river. He didn't realize there's a big difference between ocean beach sand and glacier silt. It was smooth, but too soft to get up to flying speed with 7.00 tires. But he kept trying till he found some rough stuff to bust the nose gear on. :roll:

I love my C-150, but a bush plane it ain't.

Phil

 

[ndill]

If it's any consolation, a fellow C-150 driver made the same mistake last summer. He'd done the beach landing during the Valdez poker run, so decided to try it on the Tanana river. He didn't realize there's a big difference between ocean beach sand and glacier silt. It was smooth, but too soft to get up to flying speed with 7.00 tires. But he kept trying till he found some rough stuff to bust the nose gear on. :roll:

I love my C-150, but a bush plane it ain't.

Phil

Yeah but if you add a taildragger kit and 0-320 it will be alot more bushy.

 

[AntiCub]

[Yeah but if you add a taildragger kit and 0-320 it will be alot more bushy.

Thought of that, but for the cost I could sell it and get a Citabria or Maule cheaper. And I'd probably go with a Landis nose fork instead of the tailwheel anyway. A 150 tail just isn't designed for those loads.

Phil