On 05 Oct 2003 04:02 AM, Barnyard BOb -- posted the following:

"RSwanson" wrote:

Final line of the report:
"The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed which resulted in
an inadvertent stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's
lack of experience in this type of airplane." And THAT has something
to do with his engine choice?????????
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You don't comprehend the TOTAL scenario for beans, do you?
This is a tragic comedy of errors.. not jerror.

You can't cherry pick a last line and expect to learn squat
or argue in an intelligent manner.

To begin with... the prop/engine combo could not pull the plane
though the air with sufficient airspeed above a stall. The
pilot-builder committed a number of errors before, during and
after take off that doomed him.

If the nuances and details of the report escape you , sorry.
The loss is yours.

The report says that his prop was adjusted incorrectly. Is it your
position that it is impossible to have an incorrectly adjusted prop on a
Lycoming, or that somebody smart enough to install a lycoming would not
have adjusted it incorrectly?

Either way I don't see how the choice of engine had anything to do with
it, only the installation. Even the auto-conversion advocates will tell
you that everything depends on the quality of the installation.

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