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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:01 am Post subject: off field landings |
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I am a little concerned about my Mark 3 flipping over on its back during an off field emergency landing into a corn, cotton or peanut field.
http://photobucket.com/grant-kolb
As you can see from the photos I have plenty of emergency landing options.
How many of you have have to make a landing into similar crops and what was the outcome? My plane has a nose skid but I dont know if that would help much in preventing it from flipping over in a crop landing.
Grant
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slyck(at)frontiernet.net
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:36 am Post subject: off field landings |
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Grant, having done the 20' nose slide in 3 foot alfalfa earlier this
summer, I would say the MkIII should
resist a flipover better than a FS. The extra weight is a factor and
also the shorter legs (if you still have the
old aluminum ones) The nose hoop would save the bowl from damage.
My home made aluminum
nose sticks out more than stock and gives me a little more help.
Lucky, no rocks this time 
BB, MkIII, suzuki, now featuring new improved pitot tube.
On 14, Jul 2008, at 9:01 AM, grantr wrote:
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I am a little concerned about my Mark 3 flipping over on its back
during an off field emergency landing into a corn, cotton or peanut
field.
http://photobucket.com/grant-kolb
As you can see from the photos I have plenty of emergency landing
options.
How many of you have have to make a landing into similar crops and
what was the outcome? My plane has a nose skid but I dont know if
that would help much in preventing it from flipping over in a crop
landing.
Grant
Read this topic online here:
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jbhart(at)onlyinternet.ne
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:01 am Post subject: off field landings |
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At 06:01 AM 7/14/08 -0700, you wrote:
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How many of you have have to make a landing into similar crops and what was
the outcome? My plane has a nose skid but I dont know if that would help
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much in preventing it from flipping over in a crop landing.
Grant,
I have been in a bean and a corn field with the FireFly. The beans were
short and the ground was soft. The corn field was stubble field in the
spring so the surface was fairly firm. In both cases landed with the rows,
and did not go up on the nose. Flared into ground effect and held it off
nose high so that I planted the tail wheel first. No damage from landing in
the beans. In the cornfield I bent the right landing gear leg a bit as it
happened to travel right down a row. A corn stalk poked a hole in the
outboard bottom surface of the right wing. Surprisingly, the horizontal
tail surfaces were undamaged.
Jack B. Hart FF004
Winchester, IN
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smlplanet(at)msn.com
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:05 am Post subject: off field landings |
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I have set them down in tall grass with no problem. Years ago I ran out of gas as I was coming low late in the evening when I had to pop over some tree at the end of the strip. I knew I couldn't make it and picked a tree and flared it and set it down in the top of the tree. After setting there a few minutes and knew it wasn't going any where I climbed down. I went to the house and got the kids C tractor C pick up C ropes and a chainsaw. Between the kids and I we was able to drop the tree and get it back on the ground with out any real damage to the plane.
The next morning I checked it out and cleared a path to an open field where I took off and landed on the RIGHT strip. I was flying a
Rally 2B at that time and used it to check live stock and crops. I am not sure if that tree would have held the MK3 that I fly now with it's weight but I know I could set it down on the top of it.
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From: grant_richardson25(at)yahoo.com
Date: Mon C 14 Jul 2008 06:01:48 -0700
To: kolb-list(at)matronics.com
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "grantr" <grant_richardson25(at)yahoo.com>
I am a little concerned about my Mark 3 flipping over on its back during an off field emergency landing into a corn C cotton or peanut field.
http://photobucket.com/grant-kolb
As you can see from the photos I have plenty of emergency landing options.
How many of you have have to make a landing into similar crops and what was the outcome? My plane has a nose skid but I dont know if that would help much in preventing it from flipping over in a crop landing.
Grant
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=192631#192631
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NeilsenRM(at)comcast.net
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: off field landings |
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I had a forced landing in my MKIIIC a few years ago in a bean field. The
actual landing was uneventful with no damage. The beans were short which
helped a bunch but by using no flaps I was able to snag some beans with my
tail wheel before my main gear touched. The tail wheel did most of the
stopping. The main gear sat down between the rows with the tail wheel
snagging beans.
Rick Neilsen
Redrive VW powered MKIIIC
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planecrazzzy
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: Re: off field landings |
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To overcome your fear of Flat Fields.... Fly over Water , Forests , Mountain
terrain, swamp & populated areas....
Then maybe taking your chances on a field will look better....
Make sure your fuel "Vents" are below your tanks.....
If you end up on yer top side....The fuel won't leak out...
Gotta Fly...
Mike & "Jaz" in MN
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