Prop Strikes

Anyone else here ever experience one? How did yours happen?
Mine have been ag related and hit ground, rocks, birds, and ?
Ever throw off a piece of the prop blade? I lost a piece during
climbout of a jungle strip in the Amazon in a C-185. Managed to dead
stick it back without any further damage but it took nearly two months
to get a replacement. IN the meantime, I used a field expedient and cut
off an equal amount from the other blade. We were about 200 miles from
civilization on the Rio Curaray.
Ah the fun old days....
Ol S&B

On 25 Jan 2005 16:11:39 -0800, wrote in
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Anyone else here ever experience one?

Sort of.

How did yours happen?

After a buffalo burger on Santa Catalina Island, I telephoned SoCal
TRACON and filed IFR back to the mainland. After performing a walk
around inspection I got into the aircraft, and my flight instructor
pulled the aircraft out of the rough onto the asphalt, and climbed in
behind me (PA28).

We went through the prestart checklist, and I engaged the starter only
to hear a loud clunk as the first blade went by. He had left the tow
bar on the front gear leg. He was a little chagrined, but there
was no damage, so we released within our time window for an uneventful
flight home.

We went through the prestart checklist, and I engaged the starter only
to hear a loud clunk as the first blade went by. He had left the tow
bar on the front gear leg.

I saw a guy do that once.

Hitting the tow bar may not damage the prop, but it sure would damage
whatever the tow bar hit. In the case I witnessed, the prop whipped the tow
bar into the adjacent hangar wall with surprising force. It was only luck
that kept it from hitting a car or bystander.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:43:35 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in q0OJd.29738$EG1.8340@attbi_s53::

We went through the prestart checklist, and I engaged the starter only
to hear a loud clunk as the first blade went by. He had left the tow
bar on the front gear leg.

I saw a guy do that once.

Hitting the tow bar may not damage the prop, but it sure would damage
whatever the tow bar hit.

We were fortunate. The tow bar remained attached to the gear leg. I
presume this meant that the cylinder failed to fire in the first 180
degrees of prop rotation.

wrote:

Anyone else here ever experience one?

Not yet.

George Patterson
He who marries for money earns every penny of it.

George Patterson ) wrote:

wrote:

Anyone else here ever experience one?

Not yet.

Two types of pilots, those that have and those that will??

--
Peter






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"Peter R." wrote:

Two types of pilots, those that have and those that will??

I certainly hope not.

George Patterson
He who marries for money earns every penny of it.

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:10:02 -0500, Peter R.
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George Patterson ) wrote:

wrote:

Anyone else here ever experience one?

Not yet.

Two types of pilots, those that have and those that will??

Thats more true with retract pilots than with the tow bar!

Scott D

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:10:02 -0500, Peter R.
wrote:

George Patterson ) wrote:

wrote:

Anyone else here ever experience one?

Not yet.

Two types of pilots, those that have and those that will??

Thats more true with retract pilots than with the tow bar!

Scott D

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I think we could safely say that the person that lands gear up will simultaneously experience a prop strike...

"Blueskies" wrote in message
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I think we could safely say that the person that lands gear up will
simultaneously experience a prop strike...


What if it was a Twin Commander?

;-)