To: lml@lancaironline.net
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:40:21 -0400
From: vtailjeff@aol.com
Subject: [LML] Re: Crash, fueling nozzles and training

Have you ever done it for real?


Yes, I've done it for real. However I was a couple of miles away from my airport when the engine quit. I'd never had an engine failure before and didn't know for certain that it wasn't putting out some power (it quit windmilling as I slowed from my glide speed, so at that point it was obviously not working). It was my first flight in my just finished Lancair 320. I was more bothered by not knowing the handling characteristics of the plane than by the engine problem. I was about two minutes into my first flight and hadn't even done a stall series yet. Anyway, I made an uneventful landing, fixed the problem and continued the checkout. I didn't trust the plane for about ten hours. You couldn't get me out of gliding distance from the field for a while.