Lynn Allen wrote:
One for Dudley, is it possible that he was full of fuel or carrying a lot and what looks like a wet or moist turf as it seems to sit low? Maybe just thick grass, but that would give him a disadvantage on his takeoff roll, like a contaminated runway we also see in the sim at recurrent.
Lynn
Really hard to say. My understanding is that the 19 carries a large fuel load but I would be surprised if it was being flown with full tanks; possible of course.
This one is really strange. Looked to me like he had left rudder applied initially which would be right for a normal Griffon Spit but that tail came up hard and way too soon. The rudder was reversed during the nose over which could easily have been a reactive act.
There could have been a rut in play as well as he seemed to catch the prop prior to the violent swing.
All in all it's really hard to pin it down other to say that there seemed to be a tremendous amount of boost early on bringing that tail up. From that moment on the physics reacted violently with the forces in play possibly aided by parts of the aircraft and the prop making contact with the ground.
It will be interesting to learn what HE says happened.
Dudley Henriques
Thank you, what about the trim not being set right? it would help the nose come up way to easily. It just look right as he started his roll, everything went wrong when he brought the power up.