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flight control failures
Not a flight control failure per se but another 'loose'
item jamming a control. Years ago a friend of mine purchased a used Diamant HBV. He had let me fly it on several occasions and one day I was flying in especially turbulent air (lots of rotor). The release knob, wood and slightly larger than a golf ball, was on a cable that, for some reason, was very long and there was probably a foot of slack between the release 'ball' and the end of the tube that the cable came out of. Sometime during the flight that 'ball' and cable managed to wrap itself around the base of the spoiler handle rather tightly. I did not notice this until in the pattern to land (800ft AGL) and was unable to pull the spoiler handle out of the detent (yes, I had 'coasted' down to that altitude without using the spoilers). Being in an almost completely prone position and flying with a side stick (on the right, spoiler handle and release knob on the left) it was not going to be a simple matter to untanlge the release cable/knob from the spoiler handle in the time I had available. I made a no-spoilers landing which was a non-event, especially with a 7500ft runway available. Needless to say, the release cable-to-ball slack was remedied before the next flight. JLH |
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