That takeoff was so sketchy I thought the incident was right in the first seconds.
@olympiashorts2 ай бұрын
My initial thoughts exactly!
@tropicthndrАй бұрын
Here we go another moron making it to the Dan Gryder list of shame.
@user-is1hd4nj4bАй бұрын
Yep
@balsachopper711 күн бұрын
Yep, he was in trouble as soon as he started the take off roll. Made me wonder if there were some rigging problems.
@WRA8389 күн бұрын
Trike pilot in a tail plane with zero training would be my guess.
@txkflier2 ай бұрын
He wasn't anywhere near ready for a taildragger. And why the heck did he open the throttle when he could have ridden it out? He just made the situation a hundred times worse.
@WAVEGURU2 ай бұрын
Adding more energy to an already bad situation is always a bad idea.
@txkflier2 ай бұрын
@ Like pouring gasoline on a fire..
@josephn9442 ай бұрын
It was when he added power and how quickly he did that screwed him. When you’re in an incipient ground loop, the only way to really recover is add power. It’s saved me. What happened here is he decided to bail too late for that method imo and the insta torque whipped the plane around instantly, then he panicked. As soon as he hit the ground it was a mess unfortunately. Easy for us to judge from our position, though. Stay safe out there.
@jamesburns22322 ай бұрын
He didn't stay on the rudders to keep the taildragger tracking on the runway centerline. 🤕
@jimmydulin9282 ай бұрын
@@josephn944Yes, some add power to go around or just to get more rudder effectiveness. But adding power, jabbing rudder the other way, or even differential braking are all reactive control. Prevention is far superior. If we nail/bracket the centerline between our legs with dynamic proactive rudder movement, we are ahead of the airplane and don't ground loop to begin with. We are ahead of precession when we bring the tail up on takeoff. We are ahead of P factor when we bring the mains off. We are already moving so our control is already happening when a force attempts to bring the tail around. We are better when we move.
@reggiepaulk2 ай бұрын
You could tell at takeoff, he was already in trouble. The tailwheel began shimmying when he landed, and that’s where he powered up-immediately losing control and going for a ride. A shimmying tailwheel shakes the crap out of the fuselage, and if you don’t know what it’s like, it’ll scare the crap out of you. That little airplane is short coupled, and he was short on training.
@chucklemasters64332 ай бұрын
i'd say a shimmying tailwheel was probably just one more thing that he was totally unaware of.
@JohnDoe-zz3hj2 ай бұрын
it was stage Left bro, you called it, if had stayed powered up he'd have cleared the buildings for that epic save,
@blancolirio2 ай бұрын
Good grief!!
@tomcoryell2 ай бұрын
Don’t ever do this in your Husky!😂😂😂😂
@flywithglenn2 ай бұрын
From what I just watched, I’d have to say that someone was lying about their hours and experience level. How unfortunate for the builder/ aircraft.
@alexhuey64892 ай бұрын
I was originally asked to do the test flight on this airplane. For a reason not presented to me they decided to go with someone else. I just wish I could’ve done it, that plane would more than likely still be intact. The builder and his brother were incredibly nice people and wish this didn’t happen to them 😞
@chucklemasters64332 ай бұрын
on the other hand we won't have to be worried about them being in the sky with us for a while
@alexhuey64892 ай бұрын
@ they seemed like competent pilots and were eager to learn the Kitfox. Just the guy they hired to do the flight was inept🤷♂️
@2Phast4Rocket2 ай бұрын
I hired a professional test pilot to fly the first few hours of my airplane. He brought it home safe. It was cheap insurance
@russhartley4964Ай бұрын
Question: why do people taking videos always lower the camera down just as things get critical?
@tjotwoАй бұрын
Maybe for the same reason a supposed 13,000-hour test pilot flies like a 13-hour student??? Just guessing.
@matercheffАй бұрын
@@tjotwo might be an airline pilot who flew a kitox maybe 20 years ago. It's a tricky airplane to fly without being current. If you only fly an airline and haven't flown in years this situation could definitely happen. Most people including myself first 10 hours of kitfox were very hard I couldn't imagine landing solo haha
@nitrosrt42 ай бұрын
lucky he made it to the landing, that takeoff was almost as bad.
@Mrbfgray2 ай бұрын
Yeah I was expecting him to wad it up on takeoff.
@reggiepaulk2 ай бұрын
43 years old with 13,000 hours? Nope. Justin destroyed that poor guy’s airplane, and proved he’s a fraud. I hope he has his flying background investigated.
@no-wr6bj2 ай бұрын
it says 33 hours in this make, maybe not much of the 13000 spent in a tail dragger
@reggiepaulk2 ай бұрын
@@no-wr6bj he doesn’t have 33 hours in make… he’d have landed if that was the case.
@saito1252 ай бұрын
Don't they check all this info before publishing a report?
@reggiepaulk2 ай бұрын
@ no… the NTSB isn’t an enforcement arm. They just investigate. It’s the FAA that would look into his background, but that probably won’t happen in this case.
@davidquinn61612 ай бұрын
The NTSB certainly DOES look into the background of pilots. Especially if there's any chance the pilot was a factor in an accident. And pilot error IS a factor in a large percent of accidents. Not necessarily the only or the major factor. Human error is the cause of about 80 % of aviation accidents. Pilot error 53 %. Those figures come from the NTSB database which covers data from 2008 till recently. And in this case., the pilot signed the plane experienced no mechanical issues. Leaving only pilot error. NTSB final reports often mention pilot error if it's a factor.
@jimmydulin9282 ай бұрын
When tailwheel airplanes were called conventional because most were tailwheel and I taught in a $3.00 per hour wet Champ 7AC, we all taught Wolfgang's arrive at ground level in three point attitude all slowed up and ready to squat and dynamic proactive rudder movement to nail/bracket the centerline between our legs on short final, flair, touchdown, roll out, and taxi. When tailwheel got really expensive, owners began to expect instructors to favour saving the airplane over their learning experience. So rudder jabs (reaction to ground loop), adding power (as in this case), and even differential braking (aaah) came into vogue because the instructor could ride the controls and use those techniques. If you want to learn tailwheel, get a really old instructor (perhaps a crop duster) and purchase more hull insurance than your airplane is worth.
@IncogNito-gg6uh2 ай бұрын
Every pilot should read and reread "Stick and Rudder."
@chucklemasters64332 ай бұрын
if you want to really learn tailwheel find a CFI who knows that ailerons are more effective at directional control on the ground and will overpower the rudders every time. also once the mains are on the pavement the plane goes the opposite direction of the aileron input. if the CFI does not know that don't waste your money.
@jimmydulin9282 ай бұрын
@@chucklemasters6433 Get on that steering wheel and just keep turning back from where those ailerons adverslyi yawed you. This is the number one student error that messes with both tailwheel and nose wheel landings. Sit on the picnic table at your local i and watch the wing waggers landing. Turn for longitudinal alignment when walking the rudder pedals will hold the centerline between our legs. And if we allow no turn, no bank, the wing stays level. Rudder movement will stay ahead of the center of gravity trying to swing around. Ailerons are to set a bank angle against crosswind in the air and on the ground, not to maintain longitudinal alignment in the air or on the ground. The down aileron pulls that wing back. The gust did not just pick the airplane up please turn it into the ground. The pilot used aileron instead of rudder to bring the wing back up when too slow for aileron effectiveness and adverse yawed the airplane into the ground off the runway in the same direction as the gust dropped a wing. If he had been walking the rudder pedals dynamically and proactively, he would have already been moving. He would have been ahead, not behind, the airplane. Try falling leaf stall with your ailerons to maintain heading. Ailerons at slow enough airspeed to quit flying in ground effect where Vso is irrelevant are ineffective. If we use dynamic power to nail glide angle and pitch to decelerate coming into ground effect, that prop blast is effective on elevator and rudder but not ailerons. If you are going fast enough for ailerons to be effective, you are going way too fast to land.
@tedmoss2 ай бұрын
You seem to be saying tail wheel air planes are unsafe, where it's other problems that make it unsafe. I fly tail wheel models and tricycle gear models, you just have to know what you are doing. I trained in a Piper Cub on grass fields when I was 16 years old and helped to rebuild 22 Cubs as well. I do land on the center line most of the time.
@jimmydulin9282 ай бұрын
@@tedmossTailwheel airplanes are the best trainers because they make the pilot learn to use dynamic proactive rudder to stay ahead of the airplane. It is a bit more difficult to teach this longitudinal alignment technique to nose wheel airplane pilots. With the more flexible tailwheel, we can teach students that as long as their rudder movements are dynamic, the grossness or fineness of that movement doesn't matter. Just as babies start walking with gross dynamic proactive balance, students learn fast if allowed to move the controls grossly to see what they do. I start tailwheel students out walking the rudder pedals to the stop dynamically and proactively to stay on the yellow line in a slow taxi. Yes, so fine as to be not noticed is best. But insisting on fine control early in training makes it take a lot longer. No, I can't make nose wheel pilots learn so fast. I just make them walk rudder pedals finely to take the slack out of the cables or push pull tubes. On short final, however, they are the same, Students of either geared airplane can be taught to nail/bracket the centerline between their legs with dynamic proactive rudder movement. Tail waggers, regardless of gear, have far fewer longitudinal alignment problems than do aileron steering wheel advise yaw wing waggers.
@moonmullins82272 ай бұрын
He never let the tail come up on takeoff.......tailwheel pilot? I don't think so.
@chrisandersen37522 ай бұрын
B17 pilot.
@philrutherford64862 ай бұрын
3 point takeoffs are just fine if you know how to do them, but this was something else.
@chrisandersen37522 ай бұрын
kinda like a rodeo
@superstitionmushrooms2 ай бұрын
Crazy seeing this here! I was taxing to the run up area with my instructor when this happened.
@Sky_Burger882 ай бұрын
The person he chose to perform this test flight had oversold his skills. He was clearly at fault for wrecking a perfectly good airplane. were there any consequences?
@FlyMeAirplane2 ай бұрын
Looked like a drunken farmer routine.
@fractuss2 ай бұрын
I thought that.
@glocke3802 ай бұрын
As soon as he powered up to take off it wasn't if he crashes but where.
@nadyamullen60982 ай бұрын
Obviously NOT a tail wheel pilot......for that matter even a pilot period......disgrace.
@cup_and_cone2 ай бұрын
100ft into the roll there was trouble...
@tdkeyes12 ай бұрын
Painful to watch. Just his rudder work taking off looked bad enough to kill the throttle and rethink one's life choices.
@Miata8222 ай бұрын
How unfortunate for the owner/builder.
@nealsandidge39512 ай бұрын
First response to a ground loop... Full power?
@FalzeeАй бұрын
In my humble opinion the pilot was a spectator to the accident and not actively flying the aircraft.
@johnmajane37312 ай бұрын
The take off was pretty squirrely. On landing he didn't have his speed bled off, didn't have up elevator. He regained control then for whatever reason jammed the throttle in and lost control of the plane Had he cut the throttle once it took off to the left I think he would have been just embarrassed instead of ending up with a damaged plane. Test pilot admitted to not having recent experience in tailwheel.
@chucklemasters64332 ай бұрын
regained control? when did he EVER have control? he didn't even have control over it on the takeoff. what are you talking about up elevator for? are you a pilot? nothing you said made any sense. your comment was very similar to his flying!
@johnmajane37312 ай бұрын
@@chucklemasters6433 Just prior to jamming the throttle the plane had settled down he could have rolled out and called it a day. Up elevator to keep the tail on the ground. Yes I am a pilot, I flew glider tugs for 15 years, I stopped logging landings after they got over 10,000. 2000+ in tailwheel alone.
@ronlem92352 ай бұрын
That was all kinds of messed up!
@mikebabcock3114Ай бұрын
Who did the high speed taxi test?
@michaelturocy14 күн бұрын
He kept in full power after a 90 degree left hand excursion of the runway..... wow, that's unreal
@jiyushugi10852 ай бұрын
Typical result of an untrained tail wheel pilot trying to fly an airplane he has no understanding of. Mistake No 1, takeoff: He allowed the airplane to leave the runway with the tail wheel low (still on the ground). This allowed the plane to lift off at too low an airspeed and almost stalling No2: Landed tail-wheel low, resulting in wing being at a high AOA and still producing significant lift. 3. Improper use of ailerons during both takeoff and landing. Guy didn't have the faintest idea on how to fly a tail dragger. Sad to see another nice airplane wrecked through pilot incompetence. Tail draggers are easy and fun to fly once you learn how to fly them, but you must understand the aerodynamic forces involved.
@Rickster51762 ай бұрын
I wonder if he ever thought about getting a pilot license.
@bradyspace2 ай бұрын
The tail wheel is not for landing and taking off on. That is what those big wheels up front are for.
@ditch6389Ай бұрын
Who ever signed him off needs to be checked out! That pilot was not ready
@fb28002 ай бұрын
I own a Kitfox and have many hours in her. The Kitfox may look cute but they are short coupled, light weight with tons of lift. They are very easy to ground loop and have caught out even experienced tail wheel pilots. But, even so the pilot in this video is clearly incompetent and was miles behind the aircraft from the moment it moved. Frankly unless there was a monstrous cross wind I have no idea why he was letting the plane's wings roll on take off and landing. On landing when he added full power was precisely when I expected him to cut all power! Wrecked a good aircraft 😢
@ClearedAsFiled2 ай бұрын
Great explanation.....Kitfox planes are awesome 😊
@yarneviАй бұрын
I had a Kitfox 5 for almost 10 years - this guy had no clue how to fly it starting with the take off - I've ridden one tire half way down the runway in a strong crosswind & never was as shaky as this guy
@walteruntersee4524Ай бұрын
A three point landing and losing it with full throttle! Wow!
@kevinmurphy34642 ай бұрын
Well, they say that it’s a matter of time before a pilot ground loops a taildragger, but this guy had a hard time just controlling his take off, let alone landing. That already expensive insurance for a taildragger just went way up!
@masmainster2 ай бұрын
Wow! It looked like the pilot was having his first solo.
@redbird4442 ай бұрын
Modern day 5 o’clock Charlie.
@sheepdog457Ай бұрын
The takeoff was sketchy enough. No surprise the landing got so expensive. Taildraggers aren’t for the faint of heart.
@thefreedomguyuk2 ай бұрын
Latest ever initiation of a go-around 😮
@GeorgeGeorge-yb2sz2 ай бұрын
Why are the Probable Cause statements by the NTSB always a big "No Shit"? Do they ever give one piece of useful information? By just watching this it is plain that he had a cross wind and he came in too hot and flew the plane onto the runway. The plane was still flying when the wheels touched down. When he realized he was losing it, he throttled up, but by then it was too late. All obviously due to a lack of experience. His takeoff wasn't much better!
@edcew82362 ай бұрын
The NTSB has to put down SOMETHING. I've read several thousand (yes, that many) and when the probable cause cannot be determined, the accident mechanism is given.
@GeorgeGeorge-yb2sz2 ай бұрын
@@edcew8236 Do they ever given an actual reason in their Probable Cause statements? I watch Dan Gryder and he has probably read as many of their useless remarks as you have and he has never shown them to have a common sense reason for any accident. The Brittney Infanger, Burley Idaho accident is a great example of the "usefulness" of the NTSB and the FAA allowing the many safety infractions that caused the accident. The most obvious example is the time it takes to submit a useless canned response that helps no one. I hope the new administration eliminates both bureaucracies and starts over. It certainly couldn't get any worse!
@jaysmith14082 ай бұрын
They claim to not assign blame, though in determining the case of the wreck, they must allude to the blame.
@johnfriesen7276Ай бұрын
Some people shouldn’t get into a tail dragger! Kitfox lands sooo easy
@yarneviАй бұрын
I had over 650 take offs & landings in my Kitfox 5 - I would practice 10 in a row all the time - this guy would have landed if he didn't give it full throttle when the tailwheel was jumping back & forth
@Coops7772 ай бұрын
Takeoff said it all. Once in trouble on the ground, never add power to a bad situation. This pilot needed tailwheel training
@tedmoss2 ай бұрын
I have added power to a bad situation before, flying models, always with bad results, I don't do that anymore. Keeping in mind that models are way overpowered.
@Coops7772 ай бұрын
@tedmoss So true. I love my rc aircraft. I bought a full size cub (Legend) and begun instructing. I dont fly rc near as often as Id like these days
@gregcharest443Ай бұрын
Old timers advice when I was learning tail wheel - "if you get in trouble landing - "power off, stick back all the way, focus on keeping it going straight"
@Coops777Ай бұрын
@@gregcharest443❤ Love it!! Thankyou 😀
@daveb44462 күн бұрын
It doesn’t matter how many hours someone has, tail draggers need training and experience to operate safely. Doesn’t matter how many hours you have, tail draggers require extra training.
@treavblom2 ай бұрын
I landed 4R shortly after he did that. I remember seeing them shaking their heads at the plane.
@jamieduff19812 ай бұрын
If that guy had 947hrs on tail draggers, my name is Mary Poppins.
@billcoyne3060Ай бұрын
He was nowhere near ready for that airplane
@chucklemasters64332 ай бұрын
the pilot reported that he just decided to let the airplane go on landing and see what it would do by itself!
@atv55803Ай бұрын
pilot made error big time by advancing throttle when he should of decreased throttle completely what a goof
@olympiashorts2 ай бұрын
This is exactly why I opted for a nose-dragger version of my experimental. I had often heard the adage "there are those who have ground-looped and those who will". I certainly don't think my feet are any better than the guys that have done this so I decided to avoid the possibility altogether. I have looked at the Aviation Safety Network for accidents involving the taildragger version of my plane and, thankfully, there has only been one fatal and the remainder have been ground loops. I'm feeling pretty smug about my decision. I have to admit that the conventional gear planes are "sexier" than mine but they are a lot less so when they are crumpled up. No thanks. I'm not sexy so neither is my plane. In reference to this pilot's total hours I suspect that they had to be in jets (he had a commercial and multi after all).
@markmay16552 ай бұрын
From the takeoff roll he was in trouble…. Tail wasn’t up to load the main gear and no aileron input where needed…. If the tail wheel was shimmying, a wheel landing would have made it manageable…. Step away from the tail dragger
@ditch6389Ай бұрын
I love how he tried to lift off before even getting the tail up first. Gotta get that tail up first!
@drbnaz8901Ай бұрын
Needless crash! Pilot error! 🤔
@dhyde920726 күн бұрын
Textbook example of why every landing in a taildragger should be 3-point full stall.
@portnuefflyer2 ай бұрын
The kind of incident that gives taildraggers a bad rep!
@balsachopper711 күн бұрын
Something l'm curious about: do most of the kitplanes have full castoring tail wheels? In this video and others from Oshkosh, if the tail wheel makes hard contact on landing it does one or more 360 degree swivels. Have seen several that on the next contact with the runway the wheel is 90 degrees to direction of travel. Tail does some strange dancing.
@fr8tdawg54Ай бұрын
Am I wrong here, but most test flights are done with only one pilot? Even if the owner/builder is a pax it still doesn’t make since.
@cluelessbeekeeping13222 ай бұрын
What's with the right ailerons?
@tenlittleindiansАй бұрын
Full throttle at the first bounce and he probably could have taken off for a go a round.
@richardpark30542 ай бұрын
Ouch! That was painful to watch! But remember (my dad told me this): Among tail-dragger pilots, there's those who have ground-looped and those who will!
@buckbuchanan58492 ай бұрын
Relatively limp windsock, and full throttle after a left 90.
@joeteichert68212 күн бұрын
Skill required < skill available. The pilot wasn't ready for that plane. At 1:42, notice how short the horizontal distance from the CG to the tail wheel is, and how great a horizontal distance the main gear are ahead of the CG. Compare them to planes with low ground loop tendencies. I'll wager that plane's tendency to ground loop is severe.
@robsteal38872 ай бұрын
Whisky throttle.
@rocketman2tm2 ай бұрын
One thing to note here. The old style bungee gear on the earlier kitfoxes were known to be squirrly. With that in mind, I would be doing everything in my power to have the first flight not take place on pavement. To me it looks like poor stick and rudder skills but giving yourself every advantage to begin with may be the difference between an NTSB report and an exciting but uneventful landing.
@terranovarain6570Ай бұрын
tail draggers and flying wings aren't something you can get aggressive with the controls on landing at least he didn't hit anyones elses stuff give him credit for that honestly when he throttled up thought he was going straight through the hanger
@paramotorpilot1749Ай бұрын
I'm not a pilot, but in a nutshell, how did this happen, please ?
@PDZ1122Ай бұрын
Someone should have shown him how the throttle and brakes work. What disaster all round.
@joemcmurray1172Ай бұрын
Oh my 🤦🏽♂️
@tungstenkid22712 ай бұрын
Did a crosswind gust lift the port wing?
@WhatsupZakАй бұрын
You potentially spend years laboring and assembling this aircraft, only to watch it be destroyed on it’s first flight by someone you thought you could trust with the it. Devastating.
@flycatchfulАй бұрын
Read the report and you will find the NTSB failed to include anything related to windspeed/gusts. I find this odd and you should too. I'm not a full-scale pilot but I do fly large scale radio control models. When flying high or low wing models, wind direction is critical in both takeoff and landing. My assumption is there was a crosswind prevalent in both the takeoff and landing events. In both events the pilot in command is responsible to maintain directional control. It is obvious, if this is the case, he failed to do so.
@HunterDFtwoАй бұрын
Has he flown a plane before?
@thedevilinthecircuit14142 ай бұрын
Panic at the disco. Close the throttle instead of open it.
@puremaga17Ай бұрын
Had me yelling pull power! Cut it!! Oww prop strike.. That's gonna cost ya..
@louielouiepks2 ай бұрын
Too much cross wind ?
@aviationaccidentsNTSBcases2 ай бұрын
between the ears yes
@nipponhouseplayerАй бұрын
The tail wheel was all over Alabama
@owntor1Ай бұрын
In his CYA statement the 'pilot' not flying told the other to add power...
@WheelerRickRambles2 ай бұрын
Same airport where the recent honda jet incident happened.
@ronn68Ай бұрын
I’m not a pilot but it seemed like all he had to do was lighten up on the throttle?
@waltperko8389Ай бұрын
Takeoff looked like it was a crosswind ... same for the landing, but he needed more tailwheel time to do crosswind landings better. Nice ground loop demo though.
@DonaldConnolly-wl2ji2 ай бұрын
As A EXPERIENCED PILOT TOLD ME .......LOOK. ANYONE CAN GET IT UP.......ITS THE LANDING THATS DIFFICULT.
@chrisanderson4799Ай бұрын
They had no business flying any airplane let alone a short coupled tail dragger like a Kitfox. Just look at the Takeoff and you could easily see there was no chance at landing it successfully
@Tekjoe25Ай бұрын
Mr Magoo flying dat Kitfox. Can't see, can't fly....
@jeffleverence45542 ай бұрын
Just because you have 3 wheels with a criss wind you di not have to you 3:00 3:00 all 3,at once. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️WTF was he doing powering up???
@JohnDoe-zz3hj2 ай бұрын
stage Left - if had kept that throttle maxed he'd have cleared the buildings
@PostcardsfromAlaskaАй бұрын
Along for the ride…
@dieseltu10352 ай бұрын
Flat out inexperienced
@DalesmanableАй бұрын
Pilots LHS 13,070 hrs (33 this make and model) and RHS 75hrs (62 this make and model). You’d think they’d be accustomed to the ac and know what to do with tail wheel shimmy.
@georgemanthe65Ай бұрын
I guess he forgot where the throttle was.
@WAVEGURU2 ай бұрын
Why in the world would you choose to make your first flight in a new airplane in a strong crosswind??? How stupid could you be???
@SplashJohn2 ай бұрын
"Strong crosswind"? Did you even see the windsock?
@cramersclassicsАй бұрын
My son and I have over 600 hours in our Kitfox 4 without incident. The good news is that they walked away from that accident. Certainly, the pilot in command had little experience in a Kitfox. Here is a video of my son's first solo in our Kitfox with proper technique and wheel landing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ23d6Oaqbxrrck
@scifikid1082 ай бұрын
Who's Denny?
@EleanorPeterson2 ай бұрын
[This is speculation from a non-expert.] I don't know anything about the Kitfox, but could its (apparently, to my eyes) narrow wheel-track have had an impact on its (apparently, to my eyes) nervous ground-handling behaviour? The plane looks wobbly even when standing still. Also, the fuselage seems to be too short to make a stable tail-dragger. Solution? There isn't an easy one. Widening the wheel track by 18" would stop its tendency to 'teeter' left and right, but would make it even more skittish longitudinally, so, frankly, I think this plane needed a tricycle undercarriage from the drawing-board stage. A nosewheel would settle it down and make it less eager to swap ends. Having said that, the pilot (apparently, to my eyes) made some very odd decisions; the plane didn't look happy either on the ground or in the air. I can't say anything further because I have no direct experience of full-size tail-draggers. I have flown the configuration many times in the form of large radio-controlled model aircraft, but I appreciate that that's a very different thing! Disclosure: I'm an ex rally driver from the Group-B era (amateur), and also got my PPL in a Cessna 172, now lapsed due to lack of flying hours (due to lack of cash!). I have no direct hands-on flying experience beyond that, and none with full-size tail-draggers, but I think I recognise an awkward customer when I see one. I'm glad nobody was hurt here, but it's always sad to see someone's baby in trouble.
@Marknumskull2 ай бұрын
He enjoyed the build so much he wanted to do it again 😅
@flyerbob124Ай бұрын
That was pilot induced!😳
@williamk599824 күн бұрын
He almost got away with it. Twice. The more I fly taildraggers the more I like them. And the less i want one. Risk/benefit ratio simply not there for my needs.
@jimhenkle28532 ай бұрын
Shit is sketchy that so many people live in the area near airports where “pilots” have no business “attempting” to fly
@FlatBroke6122 ай бұрын
Wtf I’m no pilot but wtf was that! He had so many opportunities to bail!
@fergiy892 ай бұрын
Ignorant for people to say the left seat pilot doesn't have 13,000 hours. This stuff happens all the time. Hindsight 20/20, should have gone with a CFI.
@n55ma29Ай бұрын
for a guy with 13K hours, he doesn't handle cross winds very well. Take off or landing, Trying to fly your way out of a ground loop doesn't work, either.
@Bill35582 ай бұрын
Some people shouldn’t fly airplanes. That was hard to watch.
@MikeM27512 күн бұрын
1st, landing half way down a runway is incorrect. 2nd....everything else he did on the landing was incorrect...😅
@planethedgehog24272 ай бұрын
When something exciting happens, don't forget to clearly document your feet!🚫