My first two engine failures... In the same flight!
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Jim, spent more reading comments.....so found out that you were the ferry pilot for this wee gal, not the owner.
I was tickled pink to find that you are a believer, and yes indeed you were being watched over!!! Besides the obvious flying lessons I have learned from you and this video, you have encouraged me to be active in my prayers before each lesson. I have stopped doing that, as it made my instructors a bit uncomfortable, so that is now going to be a part of every flight, and they will just have to respect my beliefs. Thanks for the encouragement, to put Him first! Caroline
You're welcome. Remember that it's ok to be discrete with your prayers and keep them private :-)
Very helpful video, along with the linked story and images. Thanks so much for sharing!
You're very welcome. Thanks for the positive feedback!
Hey Jim.....what a great video!! I am from a wee airport in Canada and just the radio work was overwhelming for me, let alone my wee Ercoupe having engine troubles!! Well done, and CALM, CALM CALM was all I saw and heard, despite what was going on!! Just in the midst of getting my PPL, just honing skills for the flight test, then the written, then I get to fly my girl.
Do you still own yours?? As this video looks to be 5 years ago already. Caroline in High River, Alberta.....look it up!! Sleepy town, Class E aerodrome, so no tower, no ATC....
Hi Caroline. Glad you enjoyed the video. It wasn't my Ercoupe. You can read the full story at: docs.google.com/document/d/12jLA-V_PKUDkdEbetBEtlreQ1oJIOX7XUYPK44o9QrM/
"nope but were definitely done for today" lol
My engine stopped on my down wind leg as I was landing on my solo flight. It didn't scare me as I thought I could make the
runway. Found out latter from my instructor no way. He about had a heart attack watching me. Got it started again and made the landing and didn't know why everyone was so upset. Now I do.
Wow! Glad you made it down safe Larry.
...Had that happen to me right after rotation, made a long slow turn over mud flats to get back.....It was a problem with the wire terminals at the ignition switch arching.......Separated the terminals and it was cured,....one terminal had been bent towards the other somehow........
Wow! Glad everything worked out okay 👍
Wise move to request full-length. Glad the outcome was uneventful.
As an ex radio tech and current HAM I think you need some RF suppression on your spark plug and other HV wires. If you have alternator the same can be said about that.
Yes, indeed. If it was my plane or I was planning to record more than this one flight, I definitely would have done that. Thanks for watching :-)
Miss my Ercoupe sometimes! Was a fun little plane and the semi-open cockpit is something I wish I still had.
Some one should start building updated version of the ercoupe.
It's a neat airplane, but I would not recommend it for primary training. Pilots should first learn to fly with rudders before moving to the Ercoupe.
Bigger engine 👍
@@FlywithJim What about a ercoupe that has had rudder pedals fitted?
The fuel pump on mine had a diaphragm leak putting gas into crankcase after climb out. As soon as I saw oil pressure dropping I turned back and landed. Could have been really bad if I was not paying attention.
Great job watching the gauges William!
wow, thanks for sharing this - very informative!
Trade a plane
Haha! 😂
Thank God for the long runway!
Yes. I thank Him often :-)
water in the gas
Nope. The video description has a link to a document with all of the details.
Wow nice job on getting it back down both times! I fly out of DVT and it is quite nice having that long runway on 7R / 25L I guess it's a good thing you were not on the North runway. Did you find out what it was? I have a guess but wont Monday morning QB on here :-)
Chris, the culprit had to include the carburetor float, which works much like a toilet tank float to control fuel flow into the carburetor. If it was sticking or punctured then changing the attitude of the plane would interrupt or overflow carburetor fuel causing the engine to quit. So the engine failures would have likely continued on every pitch-up / rotation until repaired. (Or until the system failed altogether.)
Most carburetors have been updated in recent years with floats that are either filled with foam or are a solid floating block, to prevent the float from ever sinking. But given the age of this airplane, and the presumably long time since the engine was last overhauled, it makes sense that this would’ve been an old style soldered-brass hollow float.
Yeah a friend of mine who is a pilot and mechanic out at DVT said they were the ones who worked on it. He said The first thing we checked was contamination in the fuel but found none. Jim ran the engine for about 15 to 20 minuets it seemed ok. Our next suspect was what Dean offered, the primer was not locked during takeoff. Jim said it was locked when he ran it.
The next thing we did was pull the carburetor and send it out. The shop that rebuilt the carburetor told us that someone had taken it apart and reassembled it incorrectly.
They think that the float was hanging up rubbing the side of the bowl restricting fuel flow to a the bowl. I’m amazed that the problem didn’t show up earlier during his trip.
The shop rebuilt the carb, we put it on and have not heard of any more problems.
That's very helpful, Chris. Thanks!
Thanks for the additional insights Chris! I do remember the mechanic asking me on the phone if I was sure the primer was in and locked. Even though I was confident, it was reassuring to be able to go back to my video and see myself check that it was indeed locked in. I definitely feel God's protection was over me and the new owner. It all could have been much worse, but turned out so well.
@@FlywithJim If its gonna quit on take off , it was at the right place and the right time --- a looong runway ! .
The airstrips I operated out of would wrecked the airplane .
Looks like a magneto problem from yhe static that its giving out.
Nope. It was the carburetor. You can read more about it at: docs.google.com/document/d/12jLA-V_PKUDkdEbetBEtlreQ1oJIOX7XUYPK44o9QrM/edit
Should've stayed down on the first aborted takeoff, pilot error again, luckily he made it.
Magneto problems don't result in a list of power like that.
Mags don’t sound like that but alternators sure do.
I had a similar problem with my Cherokee 140 once. After take off, the power dropped from 3000 to about 2000 RPM. I was able to maintain the 200 feet where this happened but was unable to climb. Flew around the pattern and landed safely. The problem was caused by the internal muffler failure, partially blocking the exhaust pipe. Here's an article on aircraft muffler failures medium.com/faa/aircraft-mufflers-the-hidden-danger-you-need-to-know-eee7d57f3ef0
Wow! Great job handling that emergency 👍
Gotta run em straight headers/downpipe like the cessnas