Successful Forced Landing after Engine Failure - GoFly Online:

[Music] [Music] [Applause] you they may they may behave I try to make a call got through to the part where I'm calling out Mayday Mayday Mayday slaying a 6 6 8 looked at the radio its power is gone my name is Carl young I started flying because when our younger I want to be in f4 scarlet and then sort of career progressed into paramedics even before I come up here I'm already going through my checklist of what I need to do and I've got two very key things that happen or shouldn't happen before I come up and there too I'm looking for two red flags to essentially not fly that day this day everything was just going great it's no indicator nothing at all this is the first actual full engine fire we've had at the fly school I've owned the flight school now for ten years we've done around about 25 to 27 thousand hours of actual fly with the Rotax engines without missing a heartbeat so it was a real shock when I received that call my name is Nathan Slee I am the chief flying instructor for go fly a V Asian and we currently manage one flight school Calandra and a satellite flat school at HEC field on the Gold Coast it was a pretty good day in terms of rain and wind but there was a fair amount of cloud right looking at the forecast it was still acceptable for him to go on a southern Ave I did briefed him prior to it making sure that he knows he's his own personal safety minimums as well as he's VFR minimums and if at any point he wasn't comfortable with the cloud he can absolutely turn back and come back to the airfield on the day when I received the call initially I was quite shocked as we haven't had any incidents with the slings in the Rotax engines he because it's like a 50-state is currently that far without these three double 580 a58 when I came into gimpy it was my first checkpoint of my soul went out sort of came in to give me no real issues there at all as bit busy I did my touch-and-go dimma clear off and started heading out towards King Roy and weather looked pretty good to start with I once about to get be weather still looks fine as I made over sort of the mountains towards the west of gimpy I had to make a decision come in low and fly underneath them which would have put me back two and a half thousand feet AGL and I wasn't comfortable with that well the idea was punch over at the top where that I could see the ground and fly VFR conditions as I got maybe 10 minutes out of gimpy towards suppose my next checkpoint the clouds moved in and I went now this is this isn't right I'm not gonna go to do this safely so I pulled the 180 found a bit of a good hole that was still left punch through the clouds down and and flew just underneath the cloud base back towards Kim P maybe three minutes outside of Gympie I started having some some radio issues a bit of a noise came through on my headset once that noise started I started some troubleshooting maybe it was my connection maybe my radio my headset was sort of running out of battery one I couldn't troubleshoot it any further I wanted to give a bit of a call to the can PE see TAS as I did that I saw that RX power had been having a bit of a trouble I knew okay this is already a problem what I'll do is I'll start looking for going into gimpy still broadcast as if it was working knowing that I wasn't getting anything out cuz I was getting no response from anyone as soon as I made that decision the engine started playing up so not only did I have a radio failure I ended up having the engine cut out on me once that happened I sort of had a bit of a panic to start with I went now this this is wrong this is cut this can't be happening the engine failed the prop stopped working altogether and I started scrambling for things to do I went okay is this bad fuel change fuel tank no that's not it is it pumps busted cycle the pumps and I sort of you'll see in the video that it does like I do sort of scramble a bit it looks like this try and turn the engine I might know it hasn't stopped so don't do that and then I'll wait I recognize that I'm getting flustered because most know my breathing's getting shorter and sharper and I just have to go okay what am i doing I am looking for a field I am looking for this I'm pitching for 70 and I worked through the process that I've been taught once I knew that my checklist was done I prefer how I pre-planned that prepared it I knew that I could just do the best I can to get it down it was probably long this three and a bit minutes of my life the next day you came in to the to my office and we sat down together and watched the footage I was pretty blown away by first of all how clear it was but secondly how cool car was and it was quite amazing to see the initial electrical failure followed by the engine failure a realization that it was real you could see him sort of compose himself sort of take a deep breath and then just run through his checklist flawlessly he had just finished diverting which was a nut you know so he just got off it got over diversion due to low cloud so he was he was already bit distracted by the diversion and so he was already quite low about two and a half thousand feet so he didn't have a lot of time to act and watching the video just to sort of reinforce that you know while he didn't have a lot of time it did show how great the this link glide ratio was and that he still had enough time to get his checks out and picked the correct field there was a point here you could see where he was deciding initially can I make it to back to gimpy which would have been a stretch or should I just go for the field that's to my left and he made the right choice I'm not trying to stretch his glide to get back to the aerodrome because a lot of parts it's a known fact that if I can see an aerodrome they know that runway is good they'll try and stretch that glide but Carl made the right decision and what Phil went for the field that he knew we could get in instead of a runway that he might get in which was which was great to see on film as well there was a critical part where I knew that if I'm doing this force landing that I will need to slow myself down and one of the best ways I can do that is just use the flaps and I really need to increase my lift at the same time so I tried the flaps I sort of thought okay I need to double check this because there are systems spelling and I looked over to my left shoulder and saw the flaps were at 0.5 instead of one where they should have been surprisingly he was extremely well composed you could see that here's like alright this is a real situation but we're very well composed and he took a breath and you didn't see him start going through procedures as I was watching the video you could see his writing through the procedures that we've taught him throughout his flight training it was a very good feeling to watch someone do that in action for a real situation so there was a point one point right at the start we're ready I wasn't working and I couldn't call for help so I knew that I was on my own because I knew that someone was listening if the radio was working I they could walk me through the process and sort of keep me calm and then once that engine failed start to splutter and and the prop completely stopped I went this could actually this could be the end of it this may be how I died today once I got past that did my breathing work through the processes did everything I needed to on final short final there was a big tree off to my right okay this could go really bad looked at my airspeed attitude right um runway makes you front wait for this one and went okay there's a fence there also but my airspeed is not good - people would be a problem if my flaps are out my flaps aren't out so how do I manage this okay this is Beth this is a but it's gonna do I'm gonna catch myself in the fence and I wait no it's shave shave some time off shaver shave a bit a little bit of speed off just pull up the nose just glide you'll be ok I sort of had a thought that if I get over this fence it'll be okay even if I roll anything like that it'll be fine but right when the engine stopped and and we're right when I pass that tree to that fence I thought this this is where it's gonna finish right here because there's no coming back from this even if I get engine back I'm committed to landing and I knew that this could be it this could be the final movement that I do [Music] all right so that's that's a that's how you go down I guess all right let's go go fly where am I [Music] hello hi there this is a Carlin eight six six eight I've had an engine failure I'm three nautical miles to the south of gimpy airfield I'll keep trying to call you guys until you get back to me aircraft is fine I'm fine landed in a field and I'm going to go for a wander over to a building to see if I can get comms there that's Kyle then eight six six eight engine failure landed safely and I'll call you again what actually came down to was an alternator failure and the battery failure as well so very rare to have both failures so after the incident we know a sort of some deep level thinking of okay did we do everything right in relation to maintenance as far as training in in relation to Kyle and I can honestly say that we did you know I'm very proud of all the instructors that work for go fly and the level of training that's provided I'm very proud of Kyle how he handled the emergency and not only that how he handled it post post post incident now he wasn't reactive he wasn't blaming anyone he was actually you know very humble and he wanted to you want to really find out what caused it and he was actually quite paranoid you know I could have done something better could I've could I have avoided this which he couldn't have saying that though there's always something to learn from every incident or accident so we have learned a lot from this it's put a lot more confidence in myself my flying ability but also in this wing itself knowing that it can land on dirt a freshly plowed field that was quite soft and not have any damage to it as its may be quite confident I feel just a lot more safe and secure in that aircraft and I'm very excited to show my friends and family that haven't come up yet and even ones that have that they are safe in that aircraft that they are safe flying around and that the training that I got and have and continue to receive is is enough to keep us not just sort of survive but thrive in the air [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

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Keywords: sling, emergency, landing, diversion, forced, mayday, radio, failure, battery failure, engine failure, engine, private pilot, soft field landing, emergency landing, forced landing procedure, forced landing after engine failure, aircraft landing fails, forced landing, forced landing after battery failure, forced landing after alternator failure, forced landing without power, forced landing on paddock, forced landing passenger brief, successful forced landing, alternator failure

Id: XTN68B4vry8

Length: 17min 27sec (1047 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 16 2020