NZFF

Saw this in the news this morning,

Forced Landing on Matakana (Tauranga)


They seem to be having a bit of trouble with those Jabirus.

On the plus side, student gained valuable experience with no loss of life or injury, and there are no reports of damage to the aircraft (not that there might not be some, but none noted). Still, it does raise an eyebrow with a possibly-developing trend, no? Anyone else experienced problems with this model? Are they particularly wide-spread in their use in NZ?

IslandBoy77 wrote:

QUOTE (IslandBoy77 @ Nov 11 2010, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

On the plus side, student gained valuable experience with no loss of life or injury, and there are no reports of damage to the aircraft (not that there might not be some, but none noted). Still, it does raise an eyebrow with a possibly-developing trend, no? Anyone else experienced problems with this model? Are they particularly wide-spread in their use in NZ?

this is the 3rd or 4th time i think that the one in tauranga has had problems and had to make a landing, one time was on the beach.
but i have also heard that they have been having problems with them in auzzi to. found a few links around the place.

http://jabirucrash.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGnId9m1JV8...feature=related

Lawsuit agains Jabiru

Engine Failure

CASA 1

Auzzi Transport safty

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Following you Utube link , a very good landing , im sure many have experiences and practice the procedure to the book and i believe if we put any of our flightsim people in the same position they would do the same .

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 10 2010, 02:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Following you Utube link , a very good landing , im sure many have experiences and practice the procedure to the book and i believe if we put any of our flightsim people in the same position they would do the same .

I know the pilot... great guy, very competent...

Grumble wrote:

QUOTE (Grumble @ Nov 11 2010, 02:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I know the pilot... great guy, very competent...

See . I knew it , bet he hung around your place in the evenings practicing on flightsim

still, not a situation that they should be ending up in, obviously not the pilots fault,

Grumble wrote:

QUOTE (Grumble @ Nov 11 2010, 02:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I know the pilot... great guy, very competent...

Actually my first thought was "I wonder if it was anyone we know" - shows how many real life pilots we have here !


Gary

I'm not a pilot myself... just know a few people who are!

Chairman wrote:

QUOTE (Chairman @ Nov 12 2010, 11:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Actually my first thought was "I wonder if it was anyone we know" - shows how many real life pilots we have here !


Gary

Well hes lucky he was over land that he could land on,
I heard that the other Jabiru from Tauranga blew a piston,
im in auzzi at the moment and ive heard alot of pilots calling them skycroaches haha,
anyone know how many hours it had? i think they were saying over 1000 hours on each one after just over a month of having them?