Probable Cause: The partial loss of engine power due to maintenance personnel’s failure to ensure that the ignition harnesses were properly secured and the pilot’s inappropriate pitch control inputs, which resulted in the airplane exceeding its critical angle of attack and subsequently entering an aerodynamic stall.
Pilots
Picture of the Day: Sunset strip
Karyn King submitted this photo and note: “Traveling from Chandler, Arizona, to Washington state, I snapped this photo of a black and white Pilatus with an orange sunset reflection just before the rain. Taken at Eastern Oregon Regional Airport (KPDT) in Pendleton.”
It’s always a good time to be proud
There is an old joke that virtually every pilot has heard and agreed with immediately. “How do you know there’s a pilot at your party? They’ll tell you.”
EAA’s One Week Wonder added to collection at National Air and Space Museum
“This airplane will impress visitors with the innovation and technology that is everywhere in the homebuilding movement and recreational aviation,” said Russell Lee, curator of homebuilt aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum. “Although one of the smallest airplanes displayed at the Udvar-Hazy Center, its power to excite visitors about the freedom of flight equals the largest aircraft displayed here.”
Volunteers help clean up storm-ravaged North Fox Island
Volunteers from the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) have met several times at North Fox Island Airfield (6Y3) in Michigan to help clean up the airfield after an early spring ice storm downed several hundred trees, many along the turf runway.
Piper Pilot 100i flight sim debuts
ALSIM has introduced its new Piper Series with the AL100i, designed to replicate the Piper Pilot 100i training aircraft.
Truck vs. Cessna 172
The truck continued to hold short all the way until our landing. After my student touched down and was taking out flaps and applying full power (we had rolled about halfway down the runway at this point), the black pickup truck drove across the runway right in front of us.
Picture of the Day: Formation flying with my shadow
KT Budde-Jones submitted this photo and note: “Formation flying over Florida with my shadow. Syd Jones, KT Budde-Jones. and their T-6 ‘Delta Charlie.'”
An old-timey Carolina fly-in
When the owners of Bradford Field in North Carolina invited pilots to lunch, it turned into an old-timey fly-in.