Ian Anderson
Lifetime Supporter
Great event and I take my hat off to the participants.
Ian
Ian
Anyone following the Dakar this year?
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Jim Craik
Lifetime Supporter
I have followed the Dakar for years!
The dunes in Patagonia are unbelieveable.
The race is really only just begining, as they are three days into an almost two week race.
Its being shown for 1/2 hour each night, in the US its on the same channel that does the F1 races. I strongly recomend checking out this fabulous rally!
The dunes in Patagonia are unbelieveable.
The race is really only just begining, as they are three days into an almost two week race.
Its being shown for 1/2 hour each night, in the US its on the same channel that does the F1 races. I strongly recomend checking out this fabulous rally!
Jim Rosenthal
Supporter
I read that this race was won by Jacky Ickx, one of my favorite drivers, in the 80s, driving a Mercedes Gwagen.....
David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
I was deeply interested in the very first Paris - Dakar and was asked by Thierry Sabine to supply support aeroplanes. One was a Britten Norman Piston Islander and was flown by a French man from Cherbourg'. I gave him detailed instruction on how 'not' to bring it back after the event had finished in Dakar as I never ever wanted to see it again.
The plonker brought it back and it ended up as a wreck in a field in Guernsey being flown by a Jerseyman. He landed in a field and took it through a gate snapping the wings off and luckily went up a lane opposite the gate. His only problem was he had about eight passengers on board.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19810918-2
The plonker brought it back and it ended up as a wreck in a field in Guernsey being flown by a Jerseyman. He landed in a field and took it through a gate snapping the wings off and luckily went up a lane opposite the gate. His only problem was he had about eight passengers on board.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19810918-2
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Interesting report, seems he did a pretty good job landing it. But not so good at managing the fuel.
David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
There were mitigating reasons but in essence, you are correct. I took a load of photos
on the fuel panel about 2 hours post crash and had them developed (pre digital) straight away. I took the pics to the hospital to show the pilot and he just said how stupid and simply said 'My mistake Boss'. The aeroplane had done two Guernseys with another pilot and then lost both its engines on this flight. If you look at the amount of fuel in the tip tanks that would be correct ie Jersey to Guersey twice and then the tips would only to another 15 minutes if you were lucky. In fact he was lucky as it happened over land. The previous pilot had half moon glasses and proved to be as blind as a bat on anything overhead - where these switches actually were. Without doubt, and the CAA said the same thing - that the switches were operated by a previous pilot. When I dug a bit deeper , I found the 'previous pilot' had done something similar on a similar aeroplane in the Indian Ocean when flying for the local airline. In Jersey, when he cooked two Starter Generators on a Bandeirante I just asked for his headset and ID card. He attempted to take me to an Industrial Tribunal which was so funny it beggared belief. ( He accepted that he made a huge mistake and came into my office to say he would pay for the brushes in the generator [obviously he didn't understand how they work] and if I put the bill in his mail drop he'd give me a cheque.) We lost that aeroplane for two days service, we night stopped 20 passengers in Jersey and the bill for the spares was £38,000 plus the stripping and fitting.
I was pleased to terminate him.
on the fuel panel about 2 hours post crash and had them developed (pre digital) straight away. I took the pics to the hospital to show the pilot and he just said how stupid and simply said 'My mistake Boss'. The aeroplane had done two Guernseys with another pilot and then lost both its engines on this flight. If you look at the amount of fuel in the tip tanks that would be correct ie Jersey to Guersey twice and then the tips would only to another 15 minutes if you were lucky. In fact he was lucky as it happened over land. The previous pilot had half moon glasses and proved to be as blind as a bat on anything overhead - where these switches actually were. Without doubt, and the CAA said the same thing - that the switches were operated by a previous pilot. When I dug a bit deeper , I found the 'previous pilot' had done something similar on a similar aeroplane in the Indian Ocean when flying for the local airline. In Jersey, when he cooked two Starter Generators on a Bandeirante I just asked for his headset and ID card. He attempted to take me to an Industrial Tribunal which was so funny it beggared belief. ( He accepted that he made a huge mistake and came into my office to say he would pay for the brushes in the generator [obviously he didn't understand how they work] and if I put the bill in his mail drop he'd give me a cheque.) We lost that aeroplane for two days service, we night stopped 20 passengers in Jersey and the bill for the spares was £38,000 plus the stripping and fitting.
I was pleased to terminate him.
