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Gentlemen
Someone asked about total ivp crashes. Siince no one more knowlegeable
responded here's what I've been told by people at Lancair. When I asked
there had been five fatal accidents: one involved a nose tire and wheel
that caught fire on an airplane that had no firewall gear shield; another
involved low manuevering in Mexico and potentially out of w&b; another
involved an iced up intake opening on the old style cowl in heavy snow in
Idaho; another was during the first test flight where the pilot was flying
out of a short field; and the other in the hills of n. Ca. cause unknown
mabe stall/spin. The most recent two in Albuquerque and Kissimmee have been
discussed here. This is an unpleasant subject which none of us like to
discuss. I think we all worry a bit to some degree at some level. But there
are obvious lessons to be learned. One is: We have very sophisticated
airplanes which need to flown with great respect and discipline. These
crashes remind me of that. I've tried to look at every one to figure out
what discipline or proceedure I need to adopt to reduce the risk of a
similar mishap. We don't seem to have any basic design problems. We seem to
have what every other model of airplane has: pilot error. Cheers
Bob Evans IVP N4TQ

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