Mike Crowell

Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed in
a GA air crash this week.

http://heraldnet.com/stories/05/07/2...c_pilot001.cfm


A very sad day,
Tony
--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed in
a GA air crash this week.

This is the guy doing the photo shoot in the new Glassair, no?

Very sad. No one knows for sure what happened, but witnesses report that he
got too slow, stalled and spun in.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Hi Jay

Yes, that's him.
A 6000 + hr pilot getting too slow & spinning in?
He hadn't even started the photoshoot - so he wasn't exploring
performance envelopes. I start to question the validity of my own
stall/spin training, when pilots of his level stall/spin. In fact if my
wife even saw this report there would probably be a really nice 172 for
sale.

He was one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet, and one of
the best pilots in mountain/extreme flying - that is what he taught at
Mission Aviation Training Academy.

Kinda makes me feel particularly vulnerable right now.

Tony
C-GICE





In article dmBHe.231980$nG6.203566@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed in
a GA air crash this week.

This is the guy doing the photo shoot in the new Glassair, no?

Very sad. No one knows for sure what happened, but witnesses report that he
got too slow, stalled and spun in.




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article dmBHe.231980$nG6.203566@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed in
a GA air crash this week.

This is the guy doing the photo shoot in the new Glassair, no?

Very sad. No one knows for sure what happened, but witnesses report that he
got too slow, stalled and spun in.




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

From what I've read, the stall speed for the Glassair is 25 or more knots
higher than for the 172, and it sneaks up on you. I'd keep the 172.


"tony roberts" wrote in message
news:nospam-5D0519.21044901082005@shawnews...
Hi Jay

Yes, that's him.
A 6000 + hr pilot getting too slow & spinning in?
He hadn't even started the photoshoot - so he wasn't exploring
performance envelopes. I start to question the validity of my own
stall/spin training, when pilots of his level stall/spin. In fact if my
wife even saw this report there would probably be a really nice 172 for
sale.

He was one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet, and one of
the best pilots in mountain/extreme flying - that is what he taught at
Mission Aviation Training Academy.

Kinda makes me feel particularly vulnerable right now.

Tony
C-GICE





In article dmBHe.231980$nG6.203566@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed
in
a GA air crash this week.

This is the guy doing the photo shoot in the new Glassair, no?

Very sad. No one knows for sure what happened, but witnesses report that
he
got too slow, stalled and spun in.




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article dmBHe.231980$nG6.203566@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed
in
a GA air crash this week.

This is the guy doing the photo shoot in the new Glassair, no?

Very sad. No one knows for sure what happened, but witnesses report that
he
got too slow, stalled and spun in.




--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

This is the accident that happened at Wautoma, about 20 miles from me and
right on the way to OSH. The accounts that I have heard agree with what Jay
has posted.

I'm sure Mike had plenty of experience, I have no idea how many hours in
Glassiars but as a side note, the FSDO Inspector that I took my CFI ride
with gave me an extensive lecture about teaching or flying airplanes that
you have little or no experience in. One comment she made was that the most
common accident at OSH was high time pilots in airplanes that they had
relatively low time in and more precisely small fast slick airplanes that
they had relatively low time in.

Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:dmBHe.231980$nG6.203566@attbi_s22...
Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed in
a GA air crash this week.

This is the guy doing the photo shoot in the new Glassair, no?

Very sad. No one knows for sure what happened, but witnesses report that
he
got too slow, stalled and spun in.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Kinda makes me feel particularly vulnerable right now.

Yeah, you've got to wonder about something so simple sneaking up on a guy
with 6000+ hours.

One moment's distraction can be very costly...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:dmBHe.231980$nG6.203566@attbi_s22...
Mike Crowell who operated Mission Aviation Training Academy, and also
ran the mountain flying forums at the Arlington EAA Fly-In was killed in
a GA air crash this week.

This is the guy doing the photo shoot in the new Glassair, no?

Very sad. No one knows for sure what happened, but witnesses report that he
got too slow, stalled and spun in.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"



Apparently it is all on videotape:

http://www.avweb.com/newswire/11_31a.../190284-1.html

"Two Pilots Killed In Local Crashes

By Mary Grady
Newswriter, Editor

Two pilots who were in the area to participate in AirVenture were killed in two separate crashes during the week.
Richard James, 67, of Fennimore, Wis., died Tuesday in the crash of his North American P-51D. James had taken part in
the warbird show, and was flying in formation with other aircraft and staging for additional maneuvers when his aircraft
went down and crashed in a rural area near Fond du Lac, southeast of Oshkosh, EAA said. No cause for the crash was
immediately apparent. On Wednesday morning, Michael Crowell, 48, of Arlington, Wash., was flying a 2005 Sportsman 2+2, a
Glasair kitplane, en route to a video shoot at nearby Wautoma Municipal Airport, when it crashed into a grassy part of
the airfield and caught fire. The video team was shooting another subject at the time and caught the crash on camera.
The NTSB is reviewing the tape.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:57KHe.213036$_o.207186@attbi_s71...
Kinda makes me feel particularly vulnerable right now.

Yeah, you've got to wonder about something so simple sneaking up on a guy
with 6000+ hours.

One moment's distraction can be very costly...

Yep, and unfortunately, we seem to see at least one stall/spin in the OSH
environment almost every year. The many distractions are always there; the
trick is to fly through all of them, which must be hard.
--
Jim in NC

....not to mention *en-route* mishaps, outbound and inbound. eg. last year.
Not encouraging for an ifr student like myself who wants to wean himself
from the "benign-ness" (read: banality) of a C172.


"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:57KHe.213036$_o.207186@attbi_s71...
Kinda makes me feel particularly vulnerable right now.

Yeah, you've got to wonder about something so simple sneaking up on a guy
with 6000+ hours.

One moment's distraction can be very costly...

Yep, and unfortunately, we seem to see at least one stall/spin in the OSH
environment almost every year. The many distractions are always there;
the
trick is to fly through all of them, which must be hard.
--
Jim in NC

It also happened to be witnessed the local FAA Inspector that just signed
our side window 337. His comments were that Mike was doing a series of low
speed passes for the video ground crew with full flaps, lots of up elevator,
switching from knife edge to knife edge at around 300 feet and finally the
airplane bit him.
Jim