Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site poseidon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!poseidon!brent From: brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: DC3 Problems Message-ID: <1294@poseidon.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 17:03:55 EDT Article-I.D.: poseidon.1294 Posted: Mon Sep 30 17:03:55 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 07:47:33 EDT References: <41800036@hpcvlo.UUCP> <41800039@hpcvlo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 28 Ken's experience with a flakey DC3 engine brought to mind an incident at Z-hills some years ago. We were climbing out in 40-Tango and I was sitting near the door. At about 4 grand I noticed black smoke streaming back from under the wing. We watched the smoke for a minute or two, the engines sounded fine. When it got real black and we could smell it, someone went forward to inform the pilot. The pilot shut down the engine and turned for home. We were quite a few miles from the airport out over the swamps and with 40+ on board, we were losing altitude. We really weren't too sure whether we would make it back, or have to exit over the swamp (yecchh!). We made it back with 2000 feet to spare. The pilot send back a message saying he would make two runs across the airport for everyone to exit. I suppose 30 got out on the first pass and 10 on the second. After a safe landing in the packing area, we watched 40-Tango come in for a nice single-engine landing. Jim Hooper refunded our tickets and got on the phone to order a new engine. -- Made in New Zealand --> Brent Callaghan AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ {ihnp4|mtuxo|pegasus}!poseidon!brent (201) 576-3475 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com