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| Year: 2012 |
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| Total Records: 9 |
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Sitting down too soon can cause money and pain New |
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Location:
Florida |
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05/04/2012:0900 |
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Remarks: Pilot is rated PPG2 on trike. Pilot was foot-launching when he felt lift he sat down. Bad move. The result was prop contacting cage while he was in the sitting position and then he went forward onto belly resulting in prop hitting the back of his upper right arm. See photo. Ouch. Stay on your feet u (read
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Hard Landing - turn to close to ground New |
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Location:
florida |
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04/26/2012:0900 |
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Remarks: Pilot received PPG 2 using a trike. Pilot was performing a foot launch. Launch was successful. However, motor was missing making climbout difficult. Pilot made turn back to field at less than 50ft to attempt a downwind landing and avoid obstacles outside the landing zone. Turn was fine and pilot (read
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Power line collision and crash |
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Location:
Columbia, Boone County, MO |
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04/09/2012:1930 |
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Remarks: Pilot was alone and maneuvering low in calm sunset conditions. Crossed road low while enjoying flight and forgot about paying attention to power lines.
Pilot collided with power lines high on lines near wing, which caused him to swing under the wire and impact the ground on his back. Pilot (read
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Failed launch and impact on railroad tracks New |
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Location:
Tontogany, Ohio |
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03/25/2012:5:30pm |
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Remarks: Launch field is a 2 acre right triangle with 4' high raised railroad bed on the east side diagonal leg. Launching on a trike from the corner opposite the railroad but heading towards the tracks in near calm winds and planned to curve the launch run to parallel the tracks for final launch. Inflati (read
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Real Dumb - Complacency |
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Location:
Warrenton, Oregon. Our shop. |
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03/15/2012:12:00 |
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Remarks: (As posted in PPG big list.)
An uneventful post about complacency:
Recently, I decided that it's time to sell my old Walkerjet RR, since I don't
fly it much at all anymore. Yesterday, I finally set aside an hour or so get it
running again and get it all cleaned up ready for sale.
I put s (read
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Expensive motor malfunction, and dangerous high wi |
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Location:
Ogden, Utah |
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03/05/2012:18:00 |
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Remarks: Decided to go flying over a frozen lake as the conditions were to be perfect that day.... Launch area was in a parking lot with 4 inches of snow/slush. After failing a few attempts at launching in no wind (couldn't run fast enough in the snow to lift off) and waiting for 4 hours for the slightest (read
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Severe Finger injury from pull start cord |
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Location:
Spain |
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02/05/2012: |
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Remarks: Las Candelas, near Séville, Spain. Sunday mid-morning, during one leg of the competition where 2 pilots are head to head on the same circuit, one of my friends, who was competing, tried to foot start his engine but the knot went through his handle. Luckily for him, not so much for me, he was quick (read
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Prop Injury On Launch |
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Location:
California |
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01/25/2012: |
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Remarks: Preliminary information only:
On forward launch, pilot got hand in prop. (read
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Knee Injury |
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Location:
Meadow Lake Airport, Falcon, Colorado |
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01/14/2012:1600 |
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Remarks: On take off, I was only about 3 feet into the air when I made a rookie mistake and sat down into my seat way too early, causing me to drop to the ground. I planted my left foot on the ground, and when I did, my knee went to the inside and I heard something pop. I knew I had did some damage to my kne (read
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