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The lesson here is who is going to be at
fault when an accident occurs. The controller cleared the Cirrus to land. He didn’t
clear him number two after the other Cirrus. He also cleared him to land long,
so it was perfectly logical for the pilot to turn base immediately. Sure, he
would probably have lived if he had turned right and landed long and the other
Cirrus had landed on the numbers, but he didn’t have the other plane in sight
and didn’t know where he was so he tried to climb and turn away from the
airport and in his panic, did so too aggressively.
The controller was the total cause of the
accident but everything in the piece turns it back to the pilot.
Just keep in mind that your pilot license
is in the hands of the controller, but your LIFE is in YOUR hands!
Bill
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of George Wehrung
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014
11:28 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: LOBO eNews --
January 2014
Very nice job on the LOBO News!
The accident of the cirrus was a huge eye opener. I was wondering
what I would do if were the 2nd plane coming in. With both runways busy
and the other guy coming in from the right, I would not expect that guy to turn
towards me and climb as he just took out my escape routes: climb out on an
early go-around or do a right 360˚ to put in more time for the first guy to land
and clear. However, both of those options may have endangered me. I
guess slowing would have helped depending on what my configuration was at that
point in time.
Anyhow, my point to the above was to look at it from another angle as
in “what would you do as the guy on the one-mile final?”
Thanks again for a great and informative product.
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Andy & Sam Werback's Grand Champion Legacy
at AirVenture 2012
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 FROM
THE PRESIDENT
by jeff edwards
Happy New Year and welcome! And thanks for reading the January
2014 issue of LOBO eNews. We are kicking off the year with some
changes our members asked for, and a few the LOBO Board has been
planning for some time.
A
New Look
First, you may notice the format of our
newsletter has changed. Instead of a pdf document transmitted to
you with the look of a published magazine we have elected to go
with a more modern ezine-style, web-based design. This is the
second edition of LOBO eNews, and the LOBO Board is very happy
with the time savings it represents for the volunteers who
publish it for you. Now that we've decided to increase our use of
the website you won't see entire articles in the newsletter any
longer. Instead, you'll see a brief intro, and a link to the full
article on the site. This should be a familiar format to anyone
who is on an email newsletter list. Please let us know what you
think!
There are some advantages to doing things this way. One is that
we can publish and post articles as we get them without waiting
for a newsletter deadline. Also, we don’t have to invest tons of
time formatting the pdf document you are familiar with. Bottom
line: same great stuff, lower cost and faster service. I like
fast! Thanks to Mark Sletten,
our volunteer editor, for his help in this project.
Site
Upgrades
Another change we have made is in the
membership arena. We are victims of our own success. We are now
approaching 400 members. Success is good but it comes with a
cost. The cost to us as volunteer Board members is we have to
manage the information of some 400 members. When we were smaller
it was not a huge time investment; Jennifer Ashley, our
Membership VP, was easily able to keep our membership data
sorted. But as we've grown, and especially as we began organizing
more events like Oshkosh AirVenture and the annual LOBO/Lancair
Landings, the workload has increased exponentially. We now must
accurately manage hundreds of separate registrations and
financial transactions, not only for membership tracking, but
also for each event. We simply don’t have the volunteer manpower
or other resources to manage things as we have in the past. So,
based on recommendations from a few smart people who know what
they're doing, we have made some significant upgrades to the
website. They include some new features you've asked for that
will only be available to members, and an online membership
management system.
In addition to making it much easier for you find information
about LOBO, our new online tools will significantly reduce the
workload on your all-volunteer LOBO Board. The only drawback for
you is you must fill out the new online registration form this
year when you renew so we can validate our membership database.
We
Need Your Help
Please take the time to accurately fill out
the registration form in its entirety: aircraft data, hours
flown, total time, training, etc. It will only take you
fifteen minutes to find your logbooks and fill out the
information we need to help all of us make improvements in
aviation safety. We use this data to show the FAA, NTSB and
insurance industry that we are a better risk than non-member
pilots. We will safeguard your flight data—only using aggregate
statistical data in our discussions. Our initial look at this
over a year ago revealed significant differences with
respect to training and hours flown between our members and
the pilots involved in accidents.
We have begun to bend the Lancair accident rate downwards, and we
were rewarded with better insurance coverage this year as
announced at the Greenville Landing. But there is still a lot of
room to improve. LOBO members have proven their commitment
to safety and professionalism, and we'll need that commitment to
further improve. Thank you for your help!
Join
or Renew Today!
There is much more information below and on
the site about our exciting new membership management system.
Please take the time to read through the instructions and join
LOBO or renew your membership today. And let us know what you
think about the online registration experience. The more you tell
us the better we can make it.
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2014 LOBO
Membership Registration
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LOBO is converting to a web-based membership
management model and we need your help to make it work. The
system will save time for everyone: no more paper-based
applications, envelopes and snail mail for you, and a largely
automated online membership management system for us. Help LOBO
join the 21st century today! Click here to read more...
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Find
Fellow LOBO Members!
LOBO has a new service--a Google Map Member
Locator! The locator is available in the new Member's area of our
website and shows the location and basic contact information for
members who gave us permission to post it. If you would like to
appear on the Member Locator make sure you opt in on the online
registration form. To see the Member Locator you must register or renew today!
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Reusing
Self-Locking Nuts--Safe or Stupid?
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Do you know when it’s safe to reuse
self-locking nuts with nylon or fiber inserts? The answer is
you shouldn't. Not unless, that is, you are following
procedures in approved maintenance documents for the aircraft in
question or other FAA publications. The NTSB has implicated the
improper reuse of self-locking nuts in several fatal accidents. Click here to read more...
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Continental
Motors Engine Maintenance Clinic Update
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Continental Motors has invited the Lancair
Owners and Builders Organization to an engine maintenance clinic
and facility tour from 20 to 22 March, 2014. The two-day event will
include presentations and hands-on demonstrations of important
set-up, maintenance and tuning requirements of Continental aircraft
engines at their Fairhope, AL operating area, as well as a tour of
their manufacturing facility in Mobile. We need a minimum of
25 pilots/owners to make this feasible. Click here to read more...
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Communication
Breakdown
On February 29, 2012, a Cirrus SR22 plunged
to the ground just seconds before what would have been a normal
landing at Melbourne,
Florida. In this
video, AOPA reconnects the links of the accident chain, and
searches for lessons in the tragedy. Click here to watch...
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Airport
Markings for Dummies
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What do the markings in the photo at right
mean and what would make two very highly experienced commercial
pilots, on two separate occasions, think it was OK to walk across
them without asking permission or even talking to
anyone? That’s exactly what happened, twice, within three
weeks! Click here to read more...
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