Just heard a tale by a friend test flying a RV. 1st flight, go up and
about, did a series of stalls, all OK.
Wants to do a flyby, gets on downwind with perhaps 16 or 1500 RPM, turns
base to final and pulls power, nothing, stuck right where he left it, goes
full power, nothing. At a few hundred feet.
Full flaps, slips and now half of the runway is used up, nothing but heavy
forest, still too hot. At that second he knew he should have killed engine
and play glider, but too late. He tried to milk altitude, and turn and
land downwind, stalled, dropped a wing. No injuries to himself, slid 3 to
400 feet, but bird was pretty hurt.
He has hours approaching 5 figures, has plenty of experience flying
homebuilts.
Put yourself in his position, it is not something I have ever practiced,
but will.
Ron Parigoris
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