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Don't see this too often in a weather forecast! Mountains of southern Colorado
Dave Sarber
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Another crippled airplane in Bucharest. On this one, the left main landing gear snapped during landing. My Labor Day weekend is covered.
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Isn't "September Snowgasm" a John Denver or Dan Fogelberg tune? (it *SHOULD* be)
Don't know about that song... Wierd that today is really pretty warm.... upper 70's and red flag fire warning, tomorrow and Wednesday we have winter weather advisory! We were away from our cabin down in AZ (now that was hot!) and saw the winter weather advisory.... our greenhouse vents were wide open, shot back up here to strengthen the roof support for the wet snow to come and button things up. The tomatoes are just starting to ripen as are the squash, would be a shame to lose them to a freaky early freeze.
It’s snowing along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana right now. I’m a couple hundred miles east of the mountains. We went from 80° yesterday to 40° today with almost an inch of rain overnight. Low tonight is forecast to be in the upper 20s. We could see a bit of white stuff on the ground tomorrow morning.
Over the weekend two fires erupted that directly affected either friends or family. This is a picture from my deck. The smoke is from the Creek fire, 200 miles to the south. Two friends have lost their homes, a family
Pretty sweet Pro shot from the creek fire on twitter here
Pretty sweet Pro shot from the creek fire on twitter here
Landing gear down.
Thank you. One friend had evacuated and watched the fire come up the hill on security cam until the camera lost connection.
The other fire in Southern California was started by a gender reveal party that had pyrotechnics. Mind you this is in dense vegetation foothill area thats been dry for two months with temps from 80’s to 110 since mid July. I know 3 families evacuated from there. One of the family had a house close to the area it started. Likelyhood Its still standing is not good.
Looks to be too high on final approach. Gonna be a challenge to lose altitude and keep the speed down for a safe touchdown.
Brew on
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@BongoYodeler That would be the Creek fire some friends and family are evacuated from. Started Friday. By Sat evening it was 38,000 acres. This morning its reported as 134,000 acres. Seems like I’ve seen the sun break through smoke 3 days in the last 2 weeks between all the complex fires.
That’s a pretty draggy design. A full control deflection slip will put him right on the numbers.Looks to be too high on final approach. Gonna be a challenge to lose altitude and keep the speed down for a safe touchdown.
Brew on
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Dave Sarber
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Finally got this in the hangar and on jacks tonight (have been dueling with Romanian politicians the last 5 days). Back to the US the day after tomorrow! 
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When you get back have a decent cup of java, will ya?Finally got this in the hangar and on jacks tonight (have been dueling with Romanian politicians the last 5 days). Back to the US the day after tomorrow!
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Finally got this in the hangar and on jacks tonight (have been dueling with Romanian politicians the last 5 days). Back to the US the day after tomorrow!
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Just been reading the AV Herald report on the accident, is 5 days to move the plane off the runway because of the politics or lack of equipment?
Dave Sarber
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Politics. Customs particularly. Took us just under 2 hours to move the airplane 2 1/2 miles to right in front of the hangar, then 5 days wrangling with customs before we could put in the hangar. They insisted we had to import the airplane before we could put it in the hangar, finally worked out a deal where it is in "temporary storage" in a government hangar, at a cost of 400,000 ROM per month, or about a hundred grand.
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And here is some "road rash" on the bottom of a GE CFM56 engine.
A quick polish with BKF and some touchup paint and it will be fine.
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Yeah, that'll buff right out.
I don't know squat about any of that, but to my untrained eye it looks like hell. That flew like that?
Dave Sarber
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Umm....no. This is a consequence of the left landing gear snapping off during landing. The engine, landing gear, flap and spoilers are expensive scrap metal.
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Ok, phew!!
So is “snapping off” something that can happen in a regular landing?
Dave Sarber
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No. I've been in aircraft for 45 years, and this is a first for me.
EDIT: I've worked on other aircraft that broke off their gear, but it's always been a result of running into an obstruction of some sort.
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The planet is, after all, a pretty big obstruction when gravity is concerned.
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Definitely a butt clencher. Checked pilots seat for missing chunks, ground check good.
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The pilot in the photo is adept at doing slips from his many hours of glider experience. He'll hit the mark.
Nearby forest fires.
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