Sept 1st 2019 - Video showing our Intentional, power off landing when our throttle cable broke off leaving engine at full throttle. Thankful for everyone involved and the flight planning around a 10k foot runway with intersecting options to give us margin and options while circling the field.
Encourage everyone to practice this situation safely with a CFI. When mixture comes out the engine is not just on or off, was able to basically control RPMs with a few backfires but was a stabilized approach in the end.
ATC's amazing coordination, professionalism, and the people we met as a result make this learning experience one we took a lot from.
Grateful for our mechanic, the A&P at KMEI (AJ), and the Meridian staff who were wonderful to us. Chad G from Houston who flew out to pick us up without hesitation, and the entire United Flight Systems staff of CFIs who prepared me well, and the owner Bobby D who flew me back to pickup the plane after AJ fixed it for us on his long weekend.
3 Comments
BSRsays...Impressed with his self control, professionalism and for never once saying "I'm coming in hot."
eric3579says...The looks on their faces, after they landed, says it all. Good job team.
siftbotsays...Moving this video to Mordhaus's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
Discuss...
Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.