Flightguy

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  1. Flightguy added a post in a topic When your landing goes wrong.   

    So the intent was to ride the tires just on the terrain until full touchdown....think of a water assisted landing approach, without fully submerging the wheels.  The snow wasnt that deep either mabe 7inches with a hard crust, you can see when I get out I'm actually standing on it.  But when the left wheel penetrated the crust that crust grabbed my rim and acted like the old school ice cream scoops, with that happening I think the deceleration was quick enough to cause the prop to hit the hard crust and finish me off.
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  2. Flightguy added a post in a topic When your landing goes wrong.   

    Hey, thanks for putting in here...not that savvy yet.  I actually contacted the NTSB 10 15 minutes after it happened. Never been through this before so I figured I better let em know right away.  
     
    Thanks Jim, happened Feb 28th 2019.  In the process of rebuilding now, leading edge wing spars out, 4 ribs on the right wing replaced so far. Unfortunately I didnt get materials till Sept and it's that time of year so the push is on to complete all the sites I have before end of 4th qtr.
     
    I appreciate the well wishes everone, only site I've been on so far that a bunch of hangar queens and know it alls haven't stated how 10million hours behind d my belt would have prevented this, so it's good to see that mabe I've found the group that enjoys this type of flying as much as me without the nose in the air attitude.
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  3. Flightguy added a topic in Close Call's and dumb stunts   

    When your landing goes wrong.
    If this helps anyone at all I'll be happy.   And I did get on video as well.  You tube -kitfox crash when things just happen- and you'll see the crash.  Super bummed about it.  Below is the narrative sent into the FAA and NTSB, should help explain the video as well.
     
     
     
     
     
    Tell me your story/narrative:  I came in from the North (winds 9 GST16 when I left Cloquet) and set up for a South landing( South landing involves coming in over tall trees forward slipping down into a Left dog leg approach) I decided to use no flaps due to the winds, and the extended float rate they produce ( flaps on a Kitfox do not produce the kind of drag that conventional aircraft flaps will, they produce alot of lift with a more nose down attitude) as I would be performing a Short field landing to full stop.  I came over the first set of trees and performed a Left slip to drop 20' and cross the second set of trees at a stable approach attitude for the transition to left turn on the Dog leg, I entered the Dog at 40-45MPH, through the turn with increased angle my air speed will drop to 30-35 at roll out ( I have practiced this a lot at altitude and am aware of the possibility of accelerated stalls when performing this and at this airspeed, angle and tightness I have another 7 to 12 mph before the sink) I rolled out of the dog leg and had the set up for touching the wheels down at 2 ft past the compacted snow ( and in order to perform that I chose to ride the tires just over the terrain until touchdown)  as I touched the tires to the terrain a gust of wind picked up the Right side wing ( Normally this is not a big deal ) which in turn pushed the left tire into the snow causing it penetrate through the hard crust,and I would say normally this would not be a big deal either however I think with the angle that the cross wind was from turned the rear of the aircraft which in turn turned the wheel to have a more forward facing angle, this I think caused the snow to grab the rim and act like an ice cream scoop driving the left side down causing mass deceleration and overturning the plane.  
     
    Lessons learned/areas of focus that could have decreased the risk/perhaps avoided the situation:   In the pursuit of Perfection, Perfection can be too Perfect. My landing configuration and execution was too good and it bit me.  Please don't think I am being cocky because that is not what it is, I don't have enough experience to be that yet, however MY failure to leave my self with adequate margin for error unforeseen or not was ultimately the root cause of this accident!  Had I Executed a higher approach angle( even just a foot )this would not have happened!  Had I Executed a steeper Dog leg to approach and come in over the compacted snow to the West more this would not have happened.  I failed to take an extra precautionary step to ensure my Golden rule and that is have at least 2 outs, I did not do that.  I had it set up perfect, so perfect there was NO ROOM FOR ERROR! 



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