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Bad Water Landing - failed checklist item?

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  1. toggie

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    #1 toggie, Aug 1, 2014
    I went looking for a video of a fixed gear plane landing on the water to see how quickly it would flip over.
    I found this video from 2009 instead.
    Hope it isn't a re-post.

    Looks like the guy forgot to retract the wheels on his floats before attempting a water landing.
    Yikes, that had to hurt when the front of those floats caught the water's surface.

    I assume it is a checklist item to verify the wheels are retracted before landing on water, true?

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0DJn6KJGF8]Airplane water crash landing - YouTube[/ame]
     
  2. Bob Parks

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    #2 Bob Parks, Aug 1, 2014
    A guy made a water landing in his new Seabee in my home town and didn't have the gear retracted . Bad ending.
     
  3. Tcar

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    #3 Tcar, Aug 1, 2014
    That's what I assumed would happen to the Piper in the other post...

    Do that and turtle? or land on the beach????

    The question...
     
  4. donv

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    #4 donv, Aug 1, 2014
    Yes, it is. My brother used to have a Cessna 206 on Amphib floats, and it had an audible alert which said something like "Gear is Up-- Water Landing" and "Gear is Down-- Runway Landing."
     

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