jesse
Touchdown! Greaser!
I had a right brake fail today on a C152 while taxing - the pedal completely went flat.
A very early in training student was taxing at the moment and it became obvious he was suddenly having some sort of control issue. I came on the controls to discover they were jammed full right rudder. Not a big deal - just meant we were going to be doing a circle for awhile.
Since the rudder depressed more then normal it caught underneath some type of lip on the right side of the floor. Wish I had a picture. It took some messing around before I was able to get it to unjam and decided taking flight was a poor idea so called it a day. Going around in a circle on the ramp gets old.
Something to watch out for. A brake going out on you is one thing - having the damn thing cause your rudder to jam full deflection is a whole additional set of concern. Seems like a serious design or installation flaw. Anyone encounter this?
(They seemed to have failed while we were taxing because there was no braking or control issue initially)
Makes me wonder if this could have been a contributing factor with some of them they had spin into the ground. Not sure they ever truly determined what the problem was other then issuing that tail AD.
A very early in training student was taxing at the moment and it became obvious he was suddenly having some sort of control issue. I came on the controls to discover they were jammed full right rudder. Not a big deal - just meant we were going to be doing a circle for awhile.
Since the rudder depressed more then normal it caught underneath some type of lip on the right side of the floor. Wish I had a picture. It took some messing around before I was able to get it to unjam and decided taking flight was a poor idea so called it a day. Going around in a circle on the ramp gets old.
Something to watch out for. A brake going out on you is one thing - having the damn thing cause your rudder to jam full deflection is a whole additional set of concern. Seems like a serious design or installation flaw. Anyone encounter this?
(They seemed to have failed while we were taxing because there was no braking or control issue initially)
Makes me wonder if this could have been a contributing factor with some of them they had spin into the ground. Not sure they ever truly determined what the problem was other then issuing that tail AD.
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