Plane Crash In Bonita Springs, FL (1/22/18) (Daniel Bernath / aka danielabernath)

pretty much the only surprising thing in that report to me is that there's an rv with Vno of 108? I thought those things were lil rocket ships....
 
Hmmm.... Interesting. Seems like the plane would have been in the 45 degree dive and roll to the right before the wing departed, yet the report indicates that the breakup is what caused the crash. So what cause the dive?

The detailed report found no fuel anywhere. Did he run out of gas, as on a previous flight?

I’m also perplexed by this sentence:

It would have been the pilot's responsibility to report any medical deficiency that would interfere with the safe performance of sport pilot operations to the FAA; however, he did not do so.​

What responsibility does a SP have to report a medical deficiency? Self ground, yes. But report? That’s news to me.
 
eman1200 said:
pretty much the only surprising thing in that report to me is that there's an rv with Vno of 108? I thought those things were lil rocket ships....
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RV 9 VNO is around 118 or so knots and RV12 is 108 - you must be either thinking about VNE or 6Gs RV models (6,7 and 8)
 
eman1200 said:
pretty much the only surprising thing in that report to me is that there's an rv with Vno of 108? I thought those things were lil rocket ships....
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Probably had to fit within the definition of light sport aircraft, i.e., unable to exceed 120 knots in level flight.

That report... What a freaking train wreck. Seemed like there were at least a dozen reasons that guy shouldn't have been in a cockpit before you even get to his obviously poor judgement, and he took a perfectly good airplane on a nice day and managed to wreck it.
 
Bill said:
Wow, effin clueless.
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Probably, but he was also taking a stew of pharmaceuticals, and if he were suicidal as well his attention was probably a bit distracted.

Also, as I wrote in post #117,
Playing on FF a bit with his route gives a little insight to the radio comms. The pilot hears or misunderstands the heading from ATC as 120 rather than 170 a couple of times. 120 is close to a direct heading but would have gone through the innermost part of the RSW class C. 170 would probably have avoided it. ​
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I suspect he might have punched direct to X01 into his gps and seen 120, and was then confused by hearing ATC tell him to fly 170.​
 
TCABM said:
I couldn’t get past the train wreck of a flight following request.
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I had to keep listening just to see how bad it could get. And it got worse. It took departure SIX TRIES to finally get across a heading and an altitude, both of which he blew anyway.

Sluggo63 said:
That's what the subtitles say, but what he actually says is "pulling back the power down to 2,500."
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Jeez. Did he think they were telling him a power setting?

In any case, the guy did not belong in any airplane, even a fully fueled one.
 
Wasn't this the guy arguing that his iPad was sufficient for air speed because it gave him groundspeed?
 
Salty said:
Oh, now I remember why the name was familiar.
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I don't know the whole story, but in RV-land, I was basically warned in private to be very careful dealing with him. Disbarred attorney, stolen valor, all sorts of bizarre issues with his aircraft. Lots of red flags.
 
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