Here's a 310
And a Baron, with the great wide, side door :-)
Posted on 04/11/2025 9:59:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Here's a 310
And a Baron, with the great wide, side door :-)
Took me a while to find the other end of that piece of spaghetti.
AND PEOPLE ARGUE WITH ME THAT RIDING MY HORSES IS DANGEROUS
But but but, everyone can be a pilot, just ask say of the pilot schools.
Who records a preflight check?
How is a preflight check recorded?
Maybe the pilot was also a NASCAR racer and got confused
Just ask Christopher Reeve.
But no. I love horses and use to ride while young
There was an electric plane showroom in our Silicon Valley town for a while. It was for commuting by air and taking weekend trips up to Napa Valley. The founder / CEO told me that with automation and 3D sensing that the plane would be safer than driving your car on the Interstate! I thought “Uh huh, sure.”
Where I worked at a Navy depot level maintenance facility we did what was called a “ground check” prior to flight.
Basically a formal check list document backed up by Quality personnel oversight.
Maybe preflight check means something different to me than you?
“#1 cause is not removing control surfaces locking pins.”
Wow, really? Sounds like #1 cause is skipping the preflight check!
That’s right up there with forgetting to lower the landing gear.
In all fairness, full inputs on rudder while on the ground and your nose wheel pin is in place, (links nosewheel steering to rudder) is not a good idea. The rudder is not like ailerons and horizontal stabilizer which have free movement to full control input without damaging things. At pre-takeoff run-up, the rudder is usually just wiggled by light inputs.
I watch car crashes on YouTube. It’s not unusual to see a plane crash.
“ Doesn’t anyone do maintenance and preventative maintenance anymore? 🤷”
We had a plane crash at Tucson International Airport several years ago because of lack of rudder control. The rudder had a control lock that had not been removed prior to takeoff. This problem would have been prevented if the pilot did a thorough pre-flight inspection.
Don't know of a pilot who wouldn't do that. Rudder cable probably snapped right after take-off.
May God rest their souls.
,,, not with light aircraft but probably BYD vehicles.
God Bless the thoroughness of military aviation discipline.
In general aviation, there is a preflight inspection to be conducted by the pilot prior to flight. This inspection is outlined in the Pilot Operating Handbook. It is not documented, unless some organization uses a formal checklist where items are checked off and signed by either maintenance, flight crew or both. That is highly unlikely with a privately owned Cessna 310.
The rudder is for maintaining the a/c "in trim" so it's flying with minimum aerodynamic drag. What causes an airplane to turn is banking the wings, which moves the wings' lift vector out of vertical. Tilting the lift vector is what causes the a/c to turn.
If you think loss of rudder authority automatically means you're going to crash, YOU'RE WRONG.
Notwithstanding multi-engine airplanes with in-line engines, like the Cessna Skymaster (AKA the PushMe-PullYou), trim/yaw can be controlled (to an extent) by means of differential thrust. And every multi-engine-rated pilot in existence is trained in its usefulness.
The pilots of United Flight 232 (a DC-10 en route to Sioux Falls) used differential thrust for both yaw and pitch control after their in-tail engine came apart in flight and disabled both the elevator and rudder controls.
They only half regained control and the landing impact was so hard the empennage broke of and ~2/5ths of the pax died in the ensuing break-up, but not a blessed one of them would have lived had the pilots not thought outside the box to fly the plane using differential thrust. It probably would have landed even harder, and probably somewhere besides a prepared runway.
The rudder of the 310 is operated by a pair of cables working in opposition. If the rudder had been stuck or one cable broken/unattached on the ground, this should have been obvious to the pilot thru if not preflight then through pedal feel on taxi and especially take-off.
NASCAR version!
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