Engine failure at my flight school

[Nexus]

One of your spanking new Da40's suffered an engine failure today, which lead to an emergency landing on an isolated field in the middle of nowhere.
Luckily no one was injured, but the "Star" will be out of service for a while.

Scary, I flew that bird just 2 weeks ago  ::)

[Craig.]

at least everyones ok and the plane is still serviceable.

[C]

Glad they're alright - one of our (rather expensive) aircraft diverted with a major fuel leak a little while ago...

... as they climbed out they spotted the 6"x6" hole in the port droptank

Seems to be the birdstrike season at the mo...

[Craig.]

A bird put a hole in a drop tank? let me guess Jag or tornado on one of their low level departures at high speed?

[Rocket_Bird]

what happened that caused that engine failure and landing?

Good thiing no one was hurt

[beefhole]

Man, the last engine failure at our school wasn't mechanical... a student pulled the mixture on my (ex) CFI while he was abeam the numbers on downwind. Scary stuff!

Good everyones ok

[Nexus]

So you actually use the mixture knob...most of my friends in the USA always flies on rich, but that's mostly because they fly in California  :)

Us diesel flyers can care less about that  ;)

The cause of accident is still unkown btw.

[Rocket_Bird]

Use the mixture knob here all the time... too often... as I fly here in the mountains.  Though prior to landing, it should be set to rich.  

[Nexus]

Here's a picture taken by the newspaper

[C]

Man, the last engine failure at our school wasn't mechanical... a student pulled the mixture on my (ex) CFI while he was abeam the numbers on downwind. Scary stuff!

Good everyones ok

I heard of this happen first hand too...

In fact the engine failure drill on the Grob Tutor (RAF's elementary trainer) has just been changed. In "the old days" it was;

Throttle closed
Prop RPM low

Unfortunately, with the mixture lever being next to the prop lever (as normal), and with both being very small, they've now dropped the RPM low action after a couple of close shaves and an interesting landing with solo students (the interesting landing thankfully was a foreign stude from a rich nation, and he was ok)

Charlie

[beefhole]

Aye Nexus, we lean it an inch at altitude, and I just realised i forgot to set it to rich for one of my landings the last time I was up! (I did 7)

Oops!

It's kind of hard to mistake the mixture for the throttle in a 172 (don't know bout the tutor) because you have to depress a button in order to pull it out for the mixture. Oh well, but I'll be you that student feels like an ass.

[C]

It's kind of hard to mistake the mixture for the throttle in a 172 (don't know bout the tutor) because you have to depress a button in order to pull it out for the mixture. Oh well, but I'll be you that student feels like an ass.

Quite. I first learnt to fly on the C152, and the engine controls were mounted on the base of the panel (of course that had no prop control though!). In the Tutor they are on the centre console by the two pilots knees, slightly out of the pilot's peripheral vision...

[Rocket_Bird]

Aye Nexus, we lean it an inch at altitude, and I just realised i forgot to set it to rich for one of my landings the last time I was up! (I did 7)

Oops!

It's kind of hard to mistake the mixture for the throttle in a 172 (don't know bout the tutor) because you have to depress a button in order to pull it out for the mixture. Oh well, but I'll be you that student feels like an ass.

Whose gonna know, just as long as your engine doesnt stall out its all good  ;D