On 13/06/2008, at 17:55 , Mike Borgelt wrote:
At 04:04 PM 13/06/2008, you wrote:
>
> Practising sideslips can be a good idea in case one's airbrakes are
> jammed for whatever reason. There are many anecdotes of people
> forgetting to remove the tape from airbrakes after leaving them
taped up
> overnight...
So we forget to do a proper daily inspection AND don't do a proper
control check before takeoff for this to happen. We don't fly in
cloud so icing is unlikely. Seems nothing has been learned since the
Libelle accident back in about 1979 in WA.
So explain the incident I am aware of when a DG500 flew through a
shower shortly before contacting wave, airbrakes froze up and couldn't
be opened.
Fortunately, after a well judged sideslip, the flexing in the wings on
landing cracked the ice and they were able to use the wheel brake on
what was quite a short strip after the inevitable long float before
landing. Ok, this was in Scotland, but I can see the same situation as
possible at a number of sites here.
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