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I've been paying close attention to the recent stuff on car gas and
hadn'nt had any problems of my own. I pretty much wrote it off to
"hype".. I live in the northeast. When I gassed up two weeks ago, it was
36 degrees out. I scheduled my plane 1958 Forney F1 for its annual. The
first opportunity to fly again was yesterday afternoon at a temperature of
86 degrees. 1-1/2 minutes into the flight, past the runway, at 200 AGL,
the RPM dropped to 1000 and wouldn't budge. I did the scan, radioed to
the field I was going down and was lucky enough, God was in my right seat)
to land in a small farmers field. No injury, no damage to the plane. As
it was, there were 8 or 10 people at the airport doing some hangar flying.
In less than twenty minutes a force was organized and trailer made
available to get the plane out of the field and back to the airport. I'm
a new pilot and I'm still learning, but the response was awe inspiring and
the results were good, complete and darn near miraculous.
Two lessons learned I want to share
Vapor lock caused the incident and I've permanently switched to 100LL.
President Bush was right. With the cooperative spirit and automatic
response we have to help each other (all out when neccesary) are what
make this country a place to be proud of and part of.
N7526C, Sidney NY
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