Rick E
Active Member
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2013
- Messages
- 321
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Aircraft
- Cavalon and an MTO Sport
- Total Flight Time
- 2500
A fellow cavalon pilot had an incident a couple of days ago and are looking at possible causes and solutions to the problem.
On a fairly normal day with a light breeze the pilot prerotated normally but on takeoff experienced great difficulty in getting airborne, engine revs were normal for takeoff but lacked the ability to climb normally. At around 1000 feet AGL the machine suffered a severe vibration and not long after everything returned to normal. Onlookers on the ground noted that the gyro didn't sound normal with a distinctly different rotor sound.
We are trying to understand what may have caused this problem and was wondering if the bendix gets stuck up in the ring gear what the result would be and if this may have caused this problem, or would the bendix spin freely.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
On a fairly normal day with a light breeze the pilot prerotated normally but on takeoff experienced great difficulty in getting airborne, engine revs were normal for takeoff but lacked the ability to climb normally. At around 1000 feet AGL the machine suffered a severe vibration and not long after everything returned to normal. Onlookers on the ground noted that the gyro didn't sound normal with a distinctly different rotor sound.
We are trying to understand what may have caused this problem and was wondering if the bendix gets stuck up in the ring gear what the result would be and if this may have caused this problem, or would the bendix spin freely.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.