Aircraft aborted takeoff due to a tail strike.
Phoenix East Aviation
Date: 02-NOV-21
Time: 18:35:00Z
Regis#: JED146
Aircraft Make: CESSNA
Aircraft Model: 172
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: INSTRUCTION
Flight Phase: TAKEOFF (TOF)
Operation: 91
City: DAYTONA BEACH
State: FLORIDA
Flight school. It takes a BIG pull on the yoke of a 172 to tail strike during rotation speed. Whoever the student is I hope he/she considers another career. Real world flying is not like Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-Plane.
ReplyDeleteReal world flying is very much like the flight sims. They can be a valuable tool in helping pilots be more proficient when not getting real air time.
Delete"Real world flying is very much like the flight sims. They can be a valuable tool in helping pilots be more proficient when not getting real air time."
DeleteAsk old school flight instructors that question about a pilot learning on a computer based flight simulator before getting in the real thing and you'll get a far different answer. The ones I knew dating back to the 1990s and 2000s when Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and up came out hated hearing their students were proud of using MSFS before getting in the real thing.
Why? They had to unlearn bad habits of unrealistic flying. Specifically around the yaw/roll control (rudder). It is a good supplement but NEVER a tool to learn in before ever stepping feet on the rudder pedals and putting hands in the yoke of a real aircraft. And I've been a flight simmer since 1998 and GA pilot since 1987 so I speak from experience in both aspects.
A mis-handled student soft field technique can easily drag the tail in a cessna 172. Nothing to get excited about. Smart call to abort and inspect the tail controls.
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