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N4WG Emergency Landing at Sarasota Bradenton
Looks like all are safe. Kudos to the Pilots for a great job. (wfla.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Question: If you know you have no wheel, just the bare gear on one side, wouldn't it make more sense to land a little off the runway centerline, since the drag from that gear is going to pull you in that direction? Watching the video and seeing the aircraft being pulled to the left by the gear until the gear went off the runway and hit the grass, spinning the aircraft, made me afraid they would ground loop. I think I would have wanted to land towards the right edge of the runway and avoid having the gear hit the grass like that.
Personally, I'd go for the centerline because after touchdown, what follows is a whole series of unpredictable events. My guess is that I'd be planning to stop the thing ASAP, hoping the door still works and that there are no flames. If I can achieve that, then everything else is all good.
Additionally, the drag from the brake application after touchdown will only affect the side with a wheel, somewhat mitigating the problem.
Okay, that makes sense to me. Are the braking systems completely separate so that a hydraulic leak on one does not affect the other, or do they use a common fluid reservoir? I'm wondering if losing the left wheel might have also taken or the brakes on the right.
The salient questions are when/where/why/how did it loose a wheel. Its a 41 year-old airplane certificated through 2019. I suppose FAA/NTSB are going to have a keen interest in the maintenance logs.
He had a pretty gusty right crosswind that also helped him off the left side. Another thought would be to have landed toward the left edge tracking to the right so as to take a little crosswind away and have the drag of the missing wheel help maintain centerline instead of pull you off it.