The Pitt’s or about any bi-plane, has a glide ratio like beating a falling brick to the ground. Good decision not to try to make it back to the airport.
I am not an aircraft mechanic, but if the plane was being was being flown in such cold weather, I would suspect the carburetor was jetted to warm weather and may have been running lean in such cold dense air. Or as someone else mentioned, there could have been an icing condition inside the carburetor. The puffs of white smoke coming from the engine upon landing suggest a lean fuel mixture could have blown a cylinder.
Aircraft have a mixture control that allows you to adjust fuel mixture on the fly. The first step in most "rough running" emergency checklists is to push the control into the Full Rich position, followed by Carb heat to ON to melt any ice formed in the carb/intake.
Piston aircraft engines don't have a fuel filter in the traditional sense. They have a metal fuel strainer and Gascolator that are tested as part of your preflight. Basically, you pull a knob and fuel pours out of the drain. Into cup of course. The fuel strainer is a fine wire mesh with no filter medium involved.
No he was correct. Find a mechanic. We are rapidly running out of A&P mechanics due to a wave of retirements and very few people getting into the profession.
@JustaPilot1 I have no doubt you're partially correct, but I still maintain that he should already have a mechanic "taking care of" his plane, not _after_ it developed a problem. .... Even when I buy _a car,_ the first thing I do is find a mechanic to inspect it and take care of it.
They’re not supposed to. I’m doubting this was the situation being he lost power at 3K. There are endless options no matter what city you’re in from that altitude unless you’re in the mountains. But I’m not referring to this flight in specific. This seems to be happening somewhere weekly. At some point, the FAA will make things harder for everyone if we keep endangering the general public. Stay off highways. It’s a selfish act.
@@BEvans-sb3lp Nonsense. It is recommended in pilot training to land on a highway in an emergency if it is the safest option. The Pitts is a taildragger with a poor glide ratio, and the highway was obviously the safest option. If this bothers you, write to the FAA and recommend they change their pilot training recommendations.
@ No need to get internet Snarky headdown1. It’s not a good look in our community. These are my opinions and I’m not changing them. If you have 3K feet to make a decision, a road shouldn’t make the top 3 list. Extremely Selfish.
@@BEvans-sb3lp Have whatever opinions you want. But that is what they are. Opinions. If you are a pilot then you know the importance of considering all the factors involved in an emergency landing. Like the fact that it is a tail dragger and he might not have had all that much time on it. We don't know what the terrain was..treed? Towns? Kinda hard to second guess him without knowing a whole lot more than what we do. Maybe YOU have the experience to put a taildragger down in a really tight emergency landing. Maybe he wasn't comfortable with that himself, but WAS comfortable putting it down on a seemingly empty highway? Again, pilots are taught that a highway is a good alternative to a crash beside the highway, IF it can be done safely. Obviously in this case it could.
I heard this happen live and immediately sent off a message to my FAAsTeam field office. Crazy but, at least he's ok. He must of bought that plane probably a year or so ago. Pretty sure the previous oner sold it.
Owner. Sorry for the typo. RUclips won't let me edit it for some reason. A few hours after the crash, a few pilots saw this plane on a flatbed and one commented that the plane was Dan's old one. Whoever Dan is.
I assume you called emergency services before rushing to notify the feds? You know… make sure the wellbeing of the involved parties was being taken care of. That would be my priority before messaging the Feds. Messaging the Feds for an incident involving an aircraft you have no knowledge of seems like a busybody move.
@ police were already involved. My contact is also a friend of mine. So I had reached out simply out of a common courtesy. Plus, I am a part of the FAA Safety Team.
Another episode of 'Let me improve my odds of survival by endangering the lives of others'. Another arrogant pilot convinced that his life is somehow more important than the completely innocent people just trying to get home for the holidays.
Another arrogant armchair pilot who doesn't know his a__ from a hole in the ground. As if you would have crashed it into the trees rather than do a safe emegency landing on the interstate. He did exactly what a pilot is trained to do in an emergency - land on a highway if it is the safest option, and in this case it obviously was. If this emergency procedure bothers you, pehaps you can write to the FAA and tell them to update their training procedures to recommend that pilots just crashs into trees in an emergency, even if a safe landing on a highway is possible. Not that you would ever actually fly anything other than your keyboard.
@@headdown1 No pilots are not taught to land on occupied roadways and put other peoples lives in danger. Only certain types of people willfully choose to endanger others to increase their own odds. I suspect you're one of them.
Great debrief! Thanks for posting!
Juan is everywhere
Waiting for Juan’s channel to cover this one😊 Merry Christmas sir!
A good friend of mine has an S2B Pitts. He told me that in a Pitts “You are ALWAYS directly over your emergency field”. :)
The Pitt’s or about any bi-plane, has a glide ratio like beating a falling brick to the ground. Good decision not to try to make it back to the airport.
He lucked out on a road landing. No cars, no power lines
Proving once again that "any landing you can walk away from is a good one."
That’s a terrible saying that needs to go away. This was a great landing because he actually landed well without damaging the aircraft at all.
Looks like everything went textbook, thankfully.
A gradual loss of power sounds like carburetor Ice?
Kudos to this pilot, he did a wonderful job! A Pitts isn't an aircraft for beginners; definitely not an easy one to force land in such a tight spot.
Good call by the pilot. The puffs of smoke coming from the exhaust indicate all is not good with the engine.
Looks like a pitts special. Those planes are notoriously hard to land when they’re operating at 100%! Hats off to the pilot.
Sure are a lot of planes landing on highways lately. Almost like its a dare.
Maybe it’s the latest Tic Tok challenge??
Trains as well.
Way to save that Pitts!
Appears these type of incidents are happening more frequent then they use to.
Nah.
Too many fools who think they can fly.
It's happening with trains as well. Almost every other day, you hear about a train derailment in some part of the country.
@@danielfoster3642 I agree
The number one rule in any aviation emergency is *_FLY THE AIRPLANE!!!_*
True Pilot , always Ready
Beautiful aircraft.
I am not an aircraft mechanic, but if the plane was being was being flown in such cold weather, I would suspect the carburetor was jetted to warm weather and may have been running lean in such cold dense air. Or as someone else mentioned, there could have been an icing condition inside the carburetor. The puffs of white smoke coming from the engine upon landing suggest a lean fuel mixture could have blown a cylinder.
Aircraft have a mixture control that allows you to adjust fuel mixture on the fly. The first step in most "rough running" emergency checklists is to push the control into the Full Rich position, followed by Carb heat to ON to melt any ice formed in the carb/intake.
Looks like oil all over the ground. 1:34 The big puffs of smoke as he was bringing it to a stop weren’t good either.
Carby heat?
I am glad he is okay.
He must've REALLY needed to stop at that rest area.
😂😂😂
Yep I’m sure he is only talking to KDKA.
Typical overexaggeration of holiday traffic.
Pitts special not very forgiving when the engine quits. Only good thing the wings are short.
I'm betting water in the gas tank. My dad had a similar incident. All it takes is a thimble full.
Might have been a clogged fuel filter or debris in the fuel system, good there was light traffic.
Piston aircraft engines don't have a fuel filter in the traditional sense. They have a metal fuel strainer and Gascolator that are tested as part of your preflight. Basically, you pull a knob and fuel pours out of the drain. Into cup of course. The fuel strainer is a fine wire mesh with no filter medium involved.
Nicely done.
The FAA needs to crackdown on general aviation. Too many people who think they can fly, endangering others lives by landing on highways.
Carb ice
About a year ago I heard a plane sputtering overhead in Ohio. The engine sounded horrible. He didn't make it
Was that in mid Ohio ?
@@arthurbrumagem3844 Around the Urbana/Springfield area
Your Controls...!!!!
Was he wabbit hunting?
...BLAME IT ON THE DRONES...
News drones
Smaill single engine planes with poor maintenance always are involved in such incidents
Jesus, Take The Wheel.
Wow!
@@danielfoster3642 maybe a wow for you but to me that only makes sense that he would land it safely after flying for years
@Speedyskull15 You have pretty much summed it all up perfectly. Thank you.
"Now he needs to find a mechanic"? ... Sounds like this plane might have been under-maintained. 🤔
Or perhaps the plane was in bad shape?
@danielfoster3642 That's kinda what I was hinting at, that maybe he should have already _had_ a mechanic. 🤔
Or.... things just break.
No he was correct. Find a mechanic. We are rapidly running out of A&P mechanics due to a wave of retirements and very few people getting into the profession.
@JustaPilot1 I have no doubt you're partially correct, but I still maintain that he should already have a mechanic "taking care of" his plane, not _after_ it developed a problem. .... Even when I buy _a car,_ the first thing I do is find a mechanic to inspect it and take care of it.
Carburetor ice ?
We gotta stop landing on highways pilots!!! Things are gonna get far more restrictive and expensive soon if we keep this up!
This was a last resort. Pilots don't land on highways by choice unless its all they have left as an option.
They’re not supposed to. I’m doubting this was the situation being he lost power at 3K. There are endless options no matter what city you’re in from that altitude unless you’re in the mountains. But I’m not referring to this flight in specific. This seems to be happening somewhere weekly. At some point, the FAA will make things harder for everyone if we keep endangering the general public. Stay off highways. It’s a selfish act.
@@BEvans-sb3lp Nonsense. It is recommended in pilot training to land on a highway in an emergency if it is the safest option. The Pitts is a taildragger with a poor glide ratio, and the highway was obviously the safest option. If this bothers you, write to the FAA and recommend they change their pilot training recommendations.
@ No need to get internet Snarky headdown1. It’s not a good look in our community. These are my opinions and I’m not changing them. If you have 3K feet to make a decision, a road shouldn’t make the top 3 list. Extremely Selfish.
@@BEvans-sb3lp Have whatever opinions you want. But that is what they are. Opinions. If you are a pilot then you know the importance of considering all the factors involved in an emergency landing. Like the fact that it is a tail dragger and he might not have had all that much time on it. We don't know what the terrain was..treed? Towns? Kinda hard to second guess him without knowing a whole lot more than what we do.
Maybe YOU have the experience to put a taildragger down in a really tight emergency landing. Maybe he wasn't comfortable with that himself, but WAS comfortable putting it down on a seemingly empty highway?
Again, pilots are taught that a highway is a good alternative to a crash beside the highway, IF it can be done safely. Obviously in this case it could.
I heard this happen live and immediately sent off a message to my FAAsTeam field office.
Crazy but, at least he's ok.
He must of bought that plane probably a year or so ago. Pretty sure the previous oner sold it.
Owner.
Sorry for the typo. RUclips won't let me edit it for some reason.
A few hours after the crash, a few pilots saw this plane on a flatbed and one commented that the plane was Dan's old one.
Whoever Dan is.
I assume you called emergency services before rushing to notify the feds? You know… make sure the wellbeing of the involved parties was being taken care of. That would be my priority before messaging the Feds.
Messaging the Feds for an incident involving an aircraft you have no knowledge of seems like a busybody move.
@@SocalJetTechwell said. Be a neighbor, not a board member of the HOA.
@ police were already involved. My contact is also a friend of mine. So I had reached out simply out of a common courtesy.
Plus, I am a part of the FAA Safety Team.
Several things could have caused the engine problem: Democrats, Russians, Trump, UFOs, Drones.
Oil leak, poor visibility, loss of power, carburetor ice, news drones, poor maintenance
Thank You, JESUS !!!
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Another episode of 'Let me improve my odds of survival by endangering the lives of others'. Another arrogant pilot convinced that his life is somehow more important than the completely innocent people just trying to get home for the holidays.
Another arrogant armchair pilot who doesn't know his a__ from a hole in the ground. As if you would have crashed it into the trees rather than do a safe emegency landing on the interstate. He did exactly what a pilot is trained to do in an emergency - land on a highway if it is the safest option, and in this case it obviously was. If this emergency procedure bothers you, pehaps you can write to the FAA and tell them to update their training procedures to recommend that pilots just crashs into trees in an emergency, even if a safe landing on a highway is possible.
Not that you would ever actually fly anything other than your keyboard.
@@headdown1 No pilots are not taught to land on occupied roadways and put other peoples lives in danger. Only certain types of people willfully choose to endanger others to increase their own odds. I suspect you're one of them.
@@headdown1 Pilots are NOT taught to land on occupied roadways and endanger the lives of others. They just feel entitled to do so.
Such ignorance, spoken with such confidence.
@@headdown1 You of course have the option of providing evidence that would contradict my statement. Should I wait while you go fetch that?
Reporting for fake new, sensationalizing, etc. He did not die!
Who said that the pilot died?