Cappy wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2014 at 3:57am:

Well pop in for a chat when you are around windy. Are you still flying? Lou Dutch roll (minus the ham and cheese) Ever experience this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky3gB0VOph0

Cappy - thats not a dutch roll on video

Here is russian news episode about this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNrrDTBMLd8
That was Tu - 154 owned by army, and she sat on the ground for quite a long time. some say almost 10 years, some say about 6 years. Then pilots got the order to ferry it to Samara (600km from Moscow where it all took place) with only a crew onboard. They took off only to understand that plane uncontrollable. Aelerons and the rudder moves, but who knows how and by what law :) They used diffrential thrust to control bank angle. They landed from 2 attempt. Pretty hard landing, plane jumped several times, but crew was alright.

This is teh 3rd part of that vid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L6ZXhXyVNU

There is a LOT of "F" words in that vids, i only can guess what poor CVR heard that day :)))

I tried to pull some info from the MAK (russian NTSB), but since that plane was owned by army - no info on that.


As for me - unfortunately i cant fly anymore. A year ago i logged 1 hour of touch and go's in 2 days - i was happy! But then i was busy, winter passed and last spring guys crashed. They was at about 600 feet above the field in a BRM Aero NG4, and Pilot did high banked turn pulling too much G's. They stalled and crashed. Pilot and a tourist guy - both killed. Since then - No flights here. One day clouds will disapear, and i'll fly again! We have new airfield opened last summer, and they got Auto-gyros(who knows how that thing flies!!!) and some delta wing trikes. I'll get there as soon as i have time) I'd preffer light planes, but not much of a choice here now. And we got a coooold winters, and that stuff got an open cockpits!!! So if they'll dont get normal planes - probably im grounded till next spring :)

I realized that whatever we do - we still guests in the sky. Behave well - there will be a pleasure to spend time there. Behave bad - there will be a severe punishment.

I fly in sim, but for the last year, in light aircrafts only. Learning the basics of flight :) I couldnt do a stabilized approach in airliner, first time i felt how it should be, - that was in real plane! After that it started to happen in sim)

I surely miss heavy jets, and i'll get my 707, 727 into the air soon ;) But for now its fun to learn how to fly turns, fly lazy 8s, chandelles,... how to plan approach and landing. That i do in light planes :)

There is one pilot here, who said to me a while ago that best way to get perfect flying skills - is to fly a glider! That was 2 years ago. Only now i really starting to realize what he meant :) All that energy management, coordinated flight, smoothnes of control inputs, clearly realizing what and how you want to do in the plane)