What happened to Sycamore south of Rhino park ?

[t-bird]

What happened to Sycamore south of Rhino park ?

[weedy]

What are you talking about?

[Dish]

Perhaps be a little more specific... there is a Sycamore @ rhino park - Leon (low level) de Lange...

other than that South of rhino in Lens world (kaapstad) there are a few ??

[gyrofan]

And the highest concentration of Sycamore's in the Country is with Wagtail. My estimate is easily 8-10 standing in various states of "flyable" to "not-flyable"

[t-bird]

I flew over one that was standing south of Rhino Park in the veld.

[Dish]

OHH hell !! - hope everything is okay ?? - anyone have any further information?

[Shallowpig]

I believe a sycamore from Rhino experienced power loss and made a landing - with NO damage to person or aircraft.
Gyro is currently at Glen for fault finding and what what......

[Dish]

Eeaaassyyyy tiger - we seeing you in numbi ?

[nicow]

Yes!

[Dish]

awesome - see you there dude --

[Low Level]

Remember the movie "It could happen to you"?

Unfortunately I didn't win the lotto, but I was just as lucky.

A friend of ours visited from the the Cape, and Mak suggested we had a nice sunset flip on Friday before we catch up over a few beers. So gesê, so gedaan. We met up at Kitty Hawk, me flying from Rhino park. The Capetonian then went with me, and another pilot friend of ours - fixed wing and chopper - went with Mak.

As we were a bit heavy, I was quite weary about performance out of Kitty Hawk, but everything was perfect. 5760 on the tach, and 39 inches boost. Turning downwind towards Bronkies I came off the power (boost) and climbed steadily at about 5300 rpm/30 inches. Just passed Zynkraal and all the power lines in the region, I came off the power, to do what I love most about gyros, go low level. Settling at about 150 feet AGL, at 5100 rpm we were flying, chatting disussing gyro flying etc. I noticed the engine rpm dropped to about 4900 rpm and we were losing altitude. I therefore wanted to increase the rpm to about 5200, my usual engine rpm where the Sycamore is happy when loaded.

Thats where it all went pearshaped. When I nipped the throttle, instead of increasing the rpm, it dropped to idle. First reaction. This cannot happen to me. Closed the throttle, and opened again. Nothing. As I was very low, times were few. Selected a field - VERY FORTUNATELY, just to my left was a perfect field, made a quick radio call to Mak to inform him of the situation, and landed. This most propably all happenned in about, dunno, maybe 30 seconds, which felt like 3.

Everything went perfect, including the landing - for an engine out, that is - therefore me and CFW will soon be wandering the skies again, all a bit wiser.

With the help of my friends we recovered CFW that evening over a few beers, and then celebrated life over a few further beers at Kitty Hawk.

I took CFW yesterday to Glen Meyer at Springs and opened up the Rattex for a quick evaluation. The - quite baffling - findings I will post on technical talk, for maybe some insight from others that do not come here.

All in all, thanx to those who do not rest ....... and friends who will do, almost, anything for a few beers.

You can push buddy, we're going nowhere

Sun setting on us

[Dish]

Well Done Leon.... by the sounds (and looks) of things it was a good result.... kept your head, considered your options and well executed. - be interesting to find out what happened....

[weedy]

Nice one Leon alls well ends well, I wish all fields where that lekker.

[nicow]

Ek's bly jy het kalm gebly en veilig geland-well done!

[BONZAI BELL]

Hi Leon
Ek is baie bly jy het veilig geland. Net so iets oor die 30 sek wat soos 3 gevoel het. Die beraming wat ons gemaak het op 500vt , met n engine out , gee jou touchdown in 20 sek. So jou landing het heelwaarskynlik in tussen 3 en 6 sek plaasgevind.

Welgedaan!!