When Your Engine Dies And You Land In A Swamp...
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:38 Giveaway
1:30 Backstory
4:04 The Engine Failure
15:39 Debrief
20:16 Why The Engine Failed
23:10 Conclusion - บันเทิง
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Moral of the story? Don't ever fly over anything you wouldn't land on! Or something like that. What are your thoughts on this situation? Would you fly over a Florida swamp? Be sure to get entered into the Parajet/Aviator Paramotor giveaway before February 28th! One lucky winner is going to get a badass paramotor and some professional training! - tuckergott.com/collections/all
The gators and pythons make me think that’s not the best idea
My heart was racing watching this!! I’m glad you landed good! Epic timing on the GoPro!!! I’m glad you didn’t get hurt!!
I am glad you were unhurt and that you didn't land on an alligator! That's a thing in FL.. LOL.. I am not a pilot YET (taking training with Aviator this August in PA, already signed up!) but I think I would have flown high enough so that my glide ratio would carry me either back to the launch point OR the beach. Stay safe man!
why was this comment posted 12 hours ago when the video is on an hour?
Hopefully you didn't see any gators lol
Man I can't believe the amount of duck's the live around that swamp 🦆🦆🦆
And i can tell ya in Germany they aren't that loud...
@@bundnaturschutz2669 I think I can safely say. If that happened to myself, I think 🦆🦆🦆 Would of been alot louder. Especially if you know there are all those crazy animals in there that want you on the lunch menu. I think Tucker did quite well once he knew in his mind he was in that position.
@@dexterdean Truee
Did anyone count the 🦆🦆🦆?
@@bundnaturschutz2669 No I lost count after the 1st 30 seconds 🤣🤣
It's qackers!
Dude, you absolutely nailed that landing! Proof that it’s good to practice dead-sticking!
Thanks man! Some quick thinking and a little bit of luck. 😅
hi I love ur content
How are you here. ._.
@@immobilize3753 thats what i was finna say XD
At least you weren’t over the water when it died.
Yeah I was thinking that that wouldn’t be fun :/
No doubt!
Probably he should wear some kind of vest over water.
All the poisonous snakes was like, oh, it’s Tucker Gott. He looks pissed. Well let him go.
Do you mean "we'll"
@@LatteWiiU ok.
@@LatteWiiU Do you mean ‘we’ll’ ?
Your lucky you didn’t run into Shrek
That would have been awkward.
Wym lucky it would be the best day of his life
@@TuckerGott haha
@@vite3267 that would have been like meeting god himself
Get out me swamp.
Legend has it that he actually forgot to turn on his gopro so he reenacted the whole thing! Haha
Iilumanate Confimed?
i am the 69th like
@@dankdoodie6759 nice
Sounded like an AFLAC commercial. Glad you made it out safely.
This video is the definition of “task failed successfully”
As a land surveyor in the great state of Florida...welcome to my office. If you think the mosquitos were bad now...wait until the summer when they are in full force along with their friends the no-see-ums and the dreaded deer flies. Glad you made it out safe...
Just like Louisiana. Those fuckers are brutal during a hot summer.
Georgia....I can feel the bites already
Ah yes, the southeast as a whole, cause that's Alabama too lol
I thought they were bad down south until i visited canada, northern mosquitos are hugeeee
@@SplendidCoffee0 Mosquito is Louisiana's friggin state bird 😟
I kept telling myself "He got the video out, He's ok.", but man was I cringing on your landing. Perfect spot.
90 lbs. of gear on your back plus your 2 ton balls of steel for walking through that swamp water. Respect!
If 25 years in the entertainment industry taught me one thing, it's never turn the camera off.
You only turn it off if you want something interesting and unbelievable to happen. I turned mine off just as Bigfoot was coming. Twice.
@@Samlol23_drrich I'm gonna quit chasing him your direction if you're gonna just turn the camera off every time...
same as 25 likes :)
Alex is the best, he called me the other day to help diagnose a carb issue and was an absolute champ. Love the service Alex and Aviator give!
We do our best to serve! So glad we could help you!
What this video needed was you finding a volleyball and naming it "Wilson"
My very first powered flight was over the swamps of West Barnstable, Cape Cod. I didn't get more than 200ft up and the engine seized. I wanted to keep going straight so I could land into the wind, but it was all 3ft deep water and 5ft deep mud under that. I decided to make an immediate left hand turn and deal with a downwind landing. If you've ever had to do one, you know they're no fun. I don't think my dog can run that fast ! I made a couple wraps around my hands of the brake lines and prepared for the worst. Well, I made it about 6 steps, then face planted into a ditch of water and mud with gas starting to leak and I freaked. I couldn't get that motor off me fast enough. All ended well, a little sore and a fried left cylinder, it was a 2 cylinder engine back then. It was also my instructors set-up ! Glad you're ok Tucker, well done.
I literally live in a town where the motto is "where the ducks walk on the fish" and I have never heard so many ducks. 😆. Great video.
guess you need a new t-shirt that says "gator bait"
Or "Swamp bait"
"Gator master baiter"
@@DCS026 do swamps eat things? Lmao
Solid reason to keep a little emergency kit for sheltering and a small pistol on you. At least, when flying around wilderness regions.
Yes, alligators dont really respond to pepper spray.
Ok kids, he's dropping the f bomb because he realised he got lucky by landing safely.
Adrenalin makes you swear a lot especially in this situation!
Hey Tucker, you wouldn't believe how many A&P mechanics that can't troubleshoot wiring. Unfortunately, this is very common in our industry and it's not really their fault - they weren't taught how to troubleshoot wiring in A&P school. A&P school teaches you enough to pass your written, oral and practical test to get your license - that's it. I've worked for a few major & minor airlines (pax and cargo) over the years doing line maintenance. You have to troubleshoot on the line. Pilots will either respect you or not based on you giving them a solid fix the first time. I've lost count how many times I've seen guys change part after part and not fix anything and subsequently, pilots don't respect them. First thing I was taught by senior technicians that actually want you to succeed is, not to be a parts changer - always check the wiring first, unless something obvious is broken. Most Aircraft Maintenance Manuals even have you check wiring alot of times, but people get hell bent on changing a physical part. We check for opens in wires, wires grounding out to the airframe or powerplant itself or shorting/touching another wire. Prime example, your wire was grounding out.
Mechanics change parts. Technicians troubleshoot and change parts. Be safe. Can't wait to get a paramotor myself someday.
Perfect!
Part 121 pilot
I can't tell you how many homebuilts and experimentals I inspect which have wires flopping around like loose teeth. Come on people. Let me show you a technique that I like to call "the right way"
It is not only in the aviation industry that electrical issues define whether or not a mechanic is any good at trouble shooting? Someone who fully understands electrical systems are worth their weight in gold. The aviation industry though really puts peoples lives at risk. Bottom line be very careful when routing wires they can rub through cause shorts and even fires. Tucker did a good job of field trouble shooting, knowing his mechanical limitations and prioritizing his escape from the swamp.
Good post. I also work Avionics. 7 in the AF on B1's + 20 years so far now on Helicopters in the GOM. Wiring is always the first thing I check. If it's spittin and sputterin on a paramotor it's usually a bad wire.
@@leeroyholloway4277 They have to be taught it first.
You aren't going to stop flying over places you can't land though! Let's be real! 🚀💯
Never!! I will leave my Gopro on while flying over places I can't land though.
@@TuckerGott that way the people who find your gopro can figure out what happened.
@@peterstockhausen8806 and he becomes famous prob put into multiple documentaries on paramotor sports.
Damn right. Only thing something like this ever did for me was have plans for returning to the original plan... I'd probably be working on it while sitting on the back of that tailgate staring at the engine... "Soon as I beat you back into submission..." Lol
It's good that this happened. Keeps you from getting too complacent. Stirs the tanks. Glad your are okay and made it out safely!
the only danger that I expose myself to at age 68 is a swamp area on a golf course.
I am impressed that you knew so much about the mechanics of your motor. I usually
don't like reality TV but you are an exception. Fun to watch!
The real victory was kiting the wing down to miss the dead tree
Pro tip to avoid wild animals while hiking...make noise! Most animals will avoid you if they hear you coming.
Maybe that was why he was making all those duck calls? 🤔
Yea enough duck calls to let em know he was there
Cotton Mouth Moccasins are stone deaf and that's the most likely hazard in that area.
@@jackbelk8527 will feel the duck calls
lol no
"I've fully committed. I'm just walking through water now". I lost it LMAO!!
and on another note, what a terrific landing my guy!!! stay safe brother.
Moral of the story, re the wire needing to be out of the way: "Tucker should have tucked !"
Great video, Tucker - keep up the good work !
Reminds me of a problem I had with my airplane a few years back. The exciter failure on the magnetos made engine starting really difficult, as soon as it was unplugged the engine ran like a champ. Crazy story you'll tell your kids and students that may possibly save life or injury. Great job sticking that landing. As far as unplanned landings go, I'd take an engine failure there any day over where it could've been.
Tucker Gott's new callsign, "Gator Bait."
The second it backfired out the exhaust I pretty much screamed ignition fault. 2 cycles rarely backfire out the exhaust if they do it is usually caused by the air fuel mix not igniting for a couple of revolutions.
"Lessons learned" is a great skill to develop. Looking back and evaluating what happened and what to check for/avoid in the future. Working for the FAA for the past 13 years, it's what we do as well!
Wanna know what’s crazy? Two years ago I was one of your first subs and your at 1.5mil now. Insane.
Same here
@@crumbuntas hey bud have a wonderful day!
That "crash" landing was great.
Sorry to say this, love your crash videos
Yeah it was a right nice crash indeed... Pretty smooth.
Hey at least it was nice and quiet... Wonder how close to the ground he had to get before he started to hear the mosquitos... 🤔
I know the feeling of walking thru the swamp due to a motor out at Aviator. It is an experience you dont want to repeat. Alex is awesome in fixing the engines. Hoping to see you in the air.
As a Fl Land Surveyor, I felt your pain. (after you landed that is) Glad you are OK.
Two good things to have when flying, airspeed, and ALTITUDE.
Aka energy
Watching you walk knee deep in swamp water gives me second-hand anxiety
They used to use cable ties for wire management in aircraft, but found that they can also cut into insulation after many hours of vibration. You need to put a sleeve over the wires before using cable ties. Then you can watch to see if the cable tie is cutting into the sleeve, and remedy it before you get a short.
Glad you found the short! I had the same problem with my KLR650 and it took me 8 hours of tearing it apart to find the short, I feel your pain.
puts new meaning to "Drain the Swamp". Glad you're okay
That was a nice landing.
The paramotor sully
"We’re unable, we may end up in the swamp."
@@TuckerGott HAHAHAHA!! 😂🤣😂
Amazing story about how being tight and neat with your cabling can help keep you safe. Really glad you found the issue and what a great lesson learned.
Even though I am not a pilot I appreciate your transparency in the sport showing to good and the bad. You are a credit to the sport! Keep them coming!
I sent you an email after this happened to me on Tuesday. I nearly landed on some Thai dancers lol. My springs came off midflight on my exhaust and broke my prop. I managed to land safely. Not bad considered I do this on 2 false legs lol
That’s pretty hilarious not gonna lie lmao did you have the cam on by Any chance?
@@johhnyytwotime510 yes it's actually in my channel. Won't drop it's name... But you can find it in mine
Hey, just a suggestion.
Buy yourself a nice high grade metal whistle you can keep in your pocket and use to call for aid or try and scare off wild animals when flying in the wilderness.
Wow. Glad your ok. Thanks for sharing this experience.
Your situational awareness when things go wrong is excellent.
I kept on hoping for someone to airdrop a wing bag for you. I keep that Aviator vacuum-sealed wing bag in my pocket for that reason...woulda totally air dropped it to you.
That's why we made them!
Ngl that was a beautiful landing
Refreshing to see someone owning a mistake and not jumping to blame equipment or others, props to you and great breakdown of situation, honest and open, brilliant ambassador for the sport, surprised you don’t carry a quick bag/sheet for your canopy
Thanks for your input and your information. I have a issue similar. I will need to check my wire routing.
Wow! Think about the timing, it took 8.6 hrs for the abrasion in the wire to kill the engine. If it were 8.7 hrs, you might have been over a 2 mile stretch of water. You may have been oddly fortunate to go down in that swamp. Yikes. Glad you were safe in the end. - Ben
I was thinking the same thing! If it was a few hours earlier, I would have been in the ocean for sure.
@@TuckerGott Do you trust in your water rescue system? I don‘t know if I could fly such a long distance over water. At least from a low height.
At least you got a good story to tell friends!
Awesome adventure, man! Great job choosing a solid landing spot. Glad you’re all the more prepared for next time.
Thank you for sharing. Very very good advice. Triple check everything. Then check again.
the landing was way smooth then I was expecting, definitely made the best out of a bad situation, could of been worse.
Mistakes are a big part of what we learn by. Don't beat yourself up too much over it, just know you are a bit wiser because of it.
It helps not getting too confident in the air which is good otherwise it can end deadly
But damn! If Tucker's still not learned, what chance do I have?
@@commentatron The way I see it is the day we stop learning is the day we stop living.
Valuable information. Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
Had to watch the whole story----Thanks from Oregon. Great landing sir.
Were you worried about alligators or pythons? U were in prime real estate
That carbon fiber must be fairly conductive. I wonder what the ohm value is from where the wire was contacting the carbon fiber to ground. That was a good find, and we all should put it in our troubleshooting toolkit.
The resistance value is in the Megohm range. And decreases as it heats up. I can tell you of a story of a carbon fiber AW-139 that had a brass pitot static alternate source sw that was mounted by the manufacturer far too close to a buss bar in a circuit breaker panel. Long story short.....I told them it was too close for comfort.....and they didn't believe me. Until they turned on power the week I was off and nearly burnt the Helicopter to the ground.
i think the real lesson would be to give yourself enough altitude to make it too a safe place to land, good thing you were over land not water, i see too many vids of people low over water, glad your safe :)
I love how you show us your mistakes so we don't make them, thank you!
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP!?"
That was almost exactly 30 seconds from when the motor died till you touched the ground. Thirty seconds to figure out what to do.
@Rusty Cuyler, That 30 seconds included carrying out his plan too.
Well, glad you kept a clear head and used it! I live on the Texas Gulf Coast and have been covered up black with mosquitos while fishing down in Baffin Bay. If you would have had to spend the night in the swamp, it would not have been pretty. Three things come to mind of things I would carry for surviving, mosquito repellent, a substantial knife and external cell phone battery with cord. But, hey you did a hell of job!
Great video & sharing session. many important lessons learnt here by the viewers! Thanks
I like his thoughts, after this “let’s take a selfie”
Sorry that happened Tucker, but I gotta ask... "What are you doing in muh swamp!?"
As a youtuber, rule one is NEVER shut off the GoPro!! It's not like you are wasting film. Picking the spot with the trail(s) (tire tracks?) was smart. At least you know someone made it in there before.
Keep flyin' great channel!
Great job, great analysis. 👍, Tucker.
I didn't know they allow flying over Washington DC in a paramotor?
: )
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Cunninghams Law, That was good !
It's a wonder he didn't get caught up in all the Razor Wire !
@@wingrovedl, Walls are bad though, I thought ? Lol.
"When the engine quit I had that sinking feeling...." haha
Pit of the stomach is held up by the buzz of the engine... This is necessary because it falls faster than the rest of you.
very nice vid... liked seeing your engine check and thought process
That was a really nice landing given the circumstances! Glad no harm was done.
Ok also your face at 21:04 when the engine starts is priceless.
Glad your ok!
In the FPV World, we have a rule with new gear: Test it someplace safe... It sounds like this was your first flight with the new gear. Lesson learned?
Tucker, I had my kill switch on my old Quicksilver somehow move to “OFF” on take-off in Balersfield, Ca. Just cleared the low tension power lines across the street. I always am mindful of that switch and wiring after that! Great video.
This is the exact reason I discourage anyone from wiring in additional "kill" switches. If you think about it, the kill sw is more of a circuit for emergency use or convenience use only. It's not absolutely needed or necessary for flight. But the motor running to clear a 50 foot obstacle is. So why add in more possibility of a fault in the circuit? The more wires you add and splice in, the more chances you have of those wires going bad and causing an engine out. I say keep it simple, have one kill sw on the throttle recessed in a cavity that won't get bumped on launch or normal flight by accident, and check it on every preflight run up. Glad you didn't get caught up in the lines...
well done. worth watching all the way to the end. thanks.
Engine quits.
Normal pilot: How do I get outta here?
Tucker Gott:
I hope my gopro's on.
my mechanics: I make a new one!
You could've done a crossover youtube series with the guy who hunts giant pythons in Florida swamps!
Lmao
Good on ya mate. These are my favourite videos where you reflect on mistakes made and make your sport safer.
My "coulda, shoulda, woulda" list. Don't leave over territory without the tools to land there. Some real boots (a minor foot issue makes this much worse), a bag for the chute, a modicum of survival gear, a minor weapon, a small EPIRB(phones die). There is a lesson in realizing that hiking is extraordinarily tough with your gear. Great clear head on the recovery, even if the flight plan was sketchy. Here's to 10 million views.
I am watching him from his fling to MacDonald video (title may be wrong)❤
And don't forget all the deadly snakes in the swamp
Some of the best stories are born in moments like these. You told the story well!
Great work landing there, i knew you were good, but that was reaaaaly good. Looked like only 1 acceptable place to land and you hit it!
Your totally fine with a .7mi hike with 80lbs, everyone in the army has to do 10k with 80lbs :)
Tell me about it..lol 11b
ya well i where socks when i walk to my bed take that army LOL
Even we airmen do that.
"I'm literally on a trail that will take me out..." Also a trail that Jaguars use every day!!!
I wrote the above comment before I watched Tucker hump it out. I'm pretty sure I saw "Big Cat" paw prints in the mud.
YIKES!!!
Glad you landed without injury ! That's about 5 miles from my house, off Gasparilla Rd in Placida.. That subdivision is a great for what your doing.. Just watch out for the Learjet's coming and going out of Coral Creek Airport.. That's where all the rich folk fly into. LOL. Be safe ! Cheers !!
Love your videos. I always learn something from them. I’m an A&P and if I noticed those wires, it would be the first thing I would look at. Very important to properly sheath and route exposed wiring, especially on a machine that vibrates so much. All of the tangibles should be perfect. For real, if you can see it and touch it, make sure it’s perfect...no reason not to. Props for coming clean and owning it. No better education than killing your motor and landing in a swamp I suppose!
It's not the swamp you have to be afraid of, it's just Port Charlotte in general.
Facts
LOL
Me:I want to get into this sport
Also me: but I’m 9
You can, later though
I am an overlander and we have a saying..."the adventure starts when the problems begin !". I love your channel, your energy and how thoughtful you are for such a young man. In the next swamp adventure may I suggest a portable mosquito repellent ? ;) Keep up the great work. Cheers from Chile.
Good learning lesson. I had a similar issue a couple years ago except that the exposed wire only occasionally made a weak connection causing the engine to sputter more than die in a very inconsistent way. Glad you got it figured out! The one suggestion I would have is to invest in a small emergency stuff sack and keep it in your side-pouch pocket with the tools. Tony (NCPPGpilot) makes the one I got, but there are others...even a heavy-duty trashbag can be of help when you gotta hike with the wing.
Item of note: Carbon fiber is electrically conductive.
Add waterproof bootees and a machete to the Mandatory Equipment List.
when you unvoluntarily end up on naked and afraid with a paramotor: wait what who are these people with cameras and why are they naked
Great video. Glad you made it out safely.
Dude, that was gnarly!! Glad you figured it out!