Howdy James, I can kinda relate, I had one side (port) go weak on me earlier this year. I was landing in a pretty healthy crosswind and popped the brakes on touchdown and things did get a little squirrley there for a few seconds. Seems the PO's mechanic had no idea how to bleed the goodyear brakes... Anyway, if your setup is like mine (1 pedal and a handle) then that handle is not exactly an emergency brake, rather it is a setup that just pushes the brake pedal down and locks it in a down position giving you a parking brake...
--- In [email protected], "jamesrgarner" <jamesrgar...@...> wrote: > > I landed today at a little airport that has a 3,000 foot runway with tress on > one end and a lake on the other. I landed a little hot and got down on my > brakes pretty hard to stop as quickly as possible; about 3/4 down the runway > the brake pedal collapsed. My emergency brake doesn't work well which really > left me in pickle. I pulled the emergency brake as hard as I could while > doing my best turn to the plane before running off the end of the runway in > to some very big and old pine trees; after making a 180 at the very end of > the runway I was able to stop. Upon inspection I found that the "stem" that > holds the brake pedal had broken; it looks like it was a poor casting. > > I'll order a new one tomorrow and will wait until it's installed before I fly > again. The scare now gives me all the reason I need to make sure that I have > my emergency brake adjusted so that it will actually bring the plane to a > stop. >
