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here you're coming through on your last
path literally your last path to go into
the overhead yep and and do what we call
the breakout and land yes so you're you
were telling me you were you in the
middle of an echelon move so which is
for the for the sake of our audience as
you're in the turn and you're going to
the breakout the lead has moved you to
the other side of the formation right
yeah so you're moving from the left side
you're in this move to the right side of
the formation in a number three position
and then well obviously there's a
certain amount of throttle movement to
stabilize in the formation and as I was
pulling up next to the number two
airplane the engine quit
and then it started again so I think
like Moloch was have been something so I
started to move back up again and this
one again they quit again this time a
lot longer and I realized pretty much at
that point hey you could have to deal
with this
so I'm now kind of regressing to
patterns of behavior which I've been
green over over years yeah so I'm
getting airplay in the right speed I
crank the canopy open because obviously
they wanna can't be shutting me home and
put the airplane down and I'm thinking
okay this is not my best day but I'm
actually in a good position I'm an in
low key position for a good field and
then the engine started
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this is not an engine failure this is a
intermittent partial engine family and I
think you know we talked about this this
is probably much more dangerous than a
straight engine quitting yeah I was
maybe four or five hundred feet 150
miles now the engine running came
intermittently and I've got maybe I've
gotta go sew down the second half of the
downwind leg I've got a turn based base
to final but I'm thinking here might be
able to make this and then I made
another mistake at that point the tire
could see they'd heard my call I was
kind of an approaching base leg and they
start to shout at me your gears knock
down your gears not down so I put the
gear down yeah at which point the engine
started to run down again so I've got
drag and I've got it I've got a hundred
eighty degrees of turn to go and that
was a dumb thing to do
clearly it's gonna be an off fair people
there for landing pulled the gear up
dumped over at remaining flat rolled the
wings level and continued to flight
this is the key thing Richard fly the
airplane as far into the crash as you
can and that's gonna in the back of my
head
trees down and safe it was a nice
thought unfortunately antennas under the
wing and that was snapped off their back
so they didn't hear it yeah but no I'm
thinking of my buddies yeah that's right
yeah it was a good it was a good thing
to think about
you wrote a great article mark that you
shared with me on it and in that you
sort of summarized the things that you
are happy with of how you did and the
things that you would do differently and
the first thing is I just appreciated
that that's the way you think then you
come out of this thing and and you were
able to save yourself and cause no
damage to any other people the airplane
will be fixed and yet and just talking
through you I can still three see you
thinking through the next time this
happens this is what I would do
differently which to me is such an
important piece of our culture and
aviation that's how we get safer and
safer so we're not afraid to put it on
the table and say these were the facts
this is what I would do differently if I
can do it again
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