Airplane try’s to cross over a mountain, and it ain’t happening. (Cessna)

[Orange Juice]

Oh Fuuuuccccckkkkkkk,

Hikers record plane nearly crashing into Continental Divide in Colorado on Fourth of July (with video)

On July 4, while hiking to Devil’s Thumb, Jason and Tyler Dunn saw what appeared to be a plane almost crashing into the ground below. The father and son are both hoping that the video...

www.skyhinews.com

Hope it not vin’s airplane,

 

[JDKRXW]

Dude didn't do his preflight density altitude calculation ... or wasn't watching the OAT when he tried to get through that saddle.
Judging by what the hikers were wearing - it looked warm.
I don't know if it was skill or dumb luck that saved his bacon.

 

[Orange Juice]

Dude didn't do his preflight density altitude calculation ... or wasn't watching the OAT when he tried to get through that saddle.
Judging by what the hikers were wearing - it looked warm.
I don't know if it was skill or dumb luck that saved his bacon.

I’m a pilot. I feel comfortably doing a one turn spin, that would take everything I had @ Density Altitude. Dumb luck for sure

 

[Sleek-Jet]

Just based on the video that almost looks intentional. If so, the pilot is one hell of a stick and rudder man, if not he's damn lucky. Either way not the best judgement.

My flight instructor showed me how to turn an airplane around in just a little over its own wingspan by doing what is essentially a shallow angle wingover. Probably looks a lot like that video from the ground. The key is to do the maneuver before you get within a couple hundred feet of the ground, and not get yourself in that situation to need the skill in the first place.

 

[paradise]

No way that was intentional. If the picture at the bottom of the article is the same plane it looks like it was a 152 and had no business being there. That was a stall spin and he got fucking lucky (Regardless of any proper spin recovery technique)

 

[Orange Juice]

Just based on the video that almost looks intentional. If so, the pilot is one hell of a stick and rudder man, if not he's damn lucky. Either way not the best judgement.

My flight instructor showed me how to turn an airplane around in just a little over its own wingspan by doing what is essentially a shallow angle wingover. Probably looks a lot like that video from the ground. The key is to do the maneuver before you get within a couple hundred feet of the ground, and not get yourself in that situation to need the skill in the first place.

If it was intentional, Steve tried the same maneuver.
Steve Fossett
— A day after discovering the wreckage of the plane flown by the millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett when he disappeared 13 months ago, investigators said Thursday that they had found remains at the crash site, a rugged and lonely mountainside in the Sierra Nevada of east-central California.

 

[nameisbond]

Mountain flying can be dangerous.

 

[mesquito_creek]

The tree line on the continental divide is 11-12,000 feet. They are above that… which is somewhere any 152/172 never should be in the summer. Probably somewhere anything without HP and a turbo doesn’t belong in the summer

 

[Sleek-Jet]

If it was intentional, Steve tried the same maneuver.
Steve Fossett
— A day after discovering the wreckage of the plane flown by the millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett when he disappeared 13 months ago, investigators said Thursday that they had found remains at the crash site, a rugged and lonely mountainside in the Sierra Nevada of east-central California.

This guy keeps it up he'll end up just like Fossett.

 

[RiverDave]

That’s about as close as close gets..

 

[jetboatperformance]

Time for a Pants poop check ?

 

[2Driver]

yep

 

[GreenEnergy28]

That's a big no thanks for me pal!

 

[hallett21]

Absolutely not lol

 

[Deano]

Not many planes are able to climb in that leeward wind position. By the looks of that guys clothes the wind is blowing probably 40-50kts over the ridge.
He got caught in a direct mountain wave and was extemely lucky to pull off that turn without getting slammed into the ground.
Mountain flying is no joke and needs special training.

 

[TimeBandit]

I did some float training in a Cessna 185 with manual flaps.

you could really turn it tight when you pulled a hand full of flaps at the same time you banked it.

Alaska shit. Dead end canyons, density altitude, no thanks.

 

[coolchange]

I think he touched his shadow at one point.

 

[Orange Juice]

Not many planes are able to climb in that leeward wind position. By the looks of that guys clothes the wind is blowing probably 40-50kts over the ridge.
He got caught in a direct mountain wave and was extemely lucky to pull off that turn without getting slammed into the ground.
Mountain flying is no joke and needs special training.

I wonder if the airplane was on satellite transponder?

I’m sure that had a lot to play into this situation. Those down drafts on the Leeward side, and the turbulent winds.

 

[nameisbond]

My Dad bought a Piper Saratoga II SP new in 1987. We took her to our Tahoe place a few times. Even with the turbo, took lots of the runway at Truckee to get off the ground in summer. Winter we flew commercial into Reno.

 

[Racey]

Not many planes are able to climb in that leeward wind position. By the looks of that guys clothes the wind is blowing probably 40-50kts over the ridge.
He got caught in a direct mountain wave and was extemely lucky to pull off that turn without getting slammed into the ground.
Mountain flying is no joke and needs special training.

Yep, when soaring you NEVER want to end up on the lee side of a mountain, the air rushing over the peak follows the surface and pulls you down with it. By contrast you glide for as long as your bladder will allow on the windward side

 

[Cobalt232]

Check out the horizontal elevator position just after the plane began the spin. That's a good example of the saying "Push on the yoke, houses get bigger. Pull on the yoke, houses get smaller. Pull even more, houses get bigger quickly."

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He got sooo lucky that air started flowing over the aero surfaces about then.

 

[mesquito_creek]

My Dad bought a Piper Saratoga II SP new in 1987. We took her to our Tahoe place a few times. Even with the turbo, took lots of the runway at Truckee to get off the ground in summer. Winter we flew commercial into Reno.

Cruising at 15-16 thousand feet at 180-200 miles an hour in a turbo Saratoga gives you a lot of options in mountain flying… I would be comfortable in that plane!

My buddy flys one out of mammoth all summer

 

[mesquito_creek]

I am flight planning a trip from p19 to mammoth next month in my Sundowner… and that flight plan has me landing in Bishop and renting a car. Taking off out of Bishop at no later than 7 am on the return flight! Lol

 

[rrrr]

My Dad bought a Piper Saratoga II SP new in 1987. We took her to our Tahoe place a few times. Even with the turbo, took lots of the runway at Truckee to get off the ground in summer. Winter we flew commercial into Reno.

Those are great airplanes.