C310 Santa Fe NM July 18 2023
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 2:40 pm
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318173
I must be reading the ADS-B data wrong.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N52 ... F/tracklog
Most of the flight was conducted at or below airport elevation?
Look at the steadily decreasing airspeed, likely ending in a Vmc demo. This is weird, because
even though the density altitude is high, he has turbos and is alone in the airplane, so he can't
possibly be at max gross. He's not a newbie PPL, either - ATP with types. I don't get it. This
was a survivable incident. Possibly even flyable to an undamaged landing with correct technique -
gear up, flaps up, dead engine feathered, blue line, ball half out, 2 degrees of bank.
Perhaps he never got around to feathering the dead engine. Sigh. Maybe he had a fuel selector
error, or boost pump shenanigans, and he was trying to diagnose that in ground effect after takeoff.
I remember one day, Bobby and I were climbing out in the 421. He was really tired, and before we
reached 1000 feet he switched the fuel selector for one of the engines from main to off. I suspect
he wanted to select aux but .... anyways, I sat there and when the engine quit and Bobby turned
to look at me, his eyes as big as saucers, I told him, "Maybe turn the fuel back on"
There must
be something wrong with me, because I thought it was really funny.
My main problem in that situation is people are so pumped with adrenalin, they may very well
rip the fuel selector off in their frenzied hand. I'm not joking. Fast hands in the cockpit kill.
I must be reading the ADS-B data wrong.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N52 ... F/tracklog
Most of the flight was conducted at or below airport elevation?
Look at the steadily decreasing airspeed, likely ending in a Vmc demo. This is weird, because
even though the density altitude is high, he has turbos and is alone in the airplane, so he can't
possibly be at max gross. He's not a newbie PPL, either - ATP with types. I don't get it. This
was a survivable incident. Possibly even flyable to an undamaged landing with correct technique -
gear up, flaps up, dead engine feathered, blue line, ball half out, 2 degrees of bank.
Perhaps he never got around to feathering the dead engine. Sigh. Maybe he had a fuel selector
error, or boost pump shenanigans, and he was trying to diagnose that in ground effect after takeoff.
I remember one day, Bobby and I were climbing out in the 421. He was really tired, and before we
reached 1000 feet he switched the fuel selector for one of the engines from main to off. I suspect
he wanted to select aux but .... anyways, I sat there and when the engine quit and Bobby turned
to look at me, his eyes as big as saucers, I told him, "Maybe turn the fuel back on"
There mustbe something wrong with me, because I thought it was really funny.
My main problem in that situation is people are so pumped with adrenalin, they may very well
rip the fuel selector off in their frenzied hand. I'm not joking. Fast hands in the cockpit kill.