Sounds like a spell on your hangar, and not a good one… ;-)
The television news carried images from mobile phones taken by people on the beach.
There was a swell and he put it down far enough away from the beach so as not to endanger bathers.
The aircraft sank quite quickly leaving just the tail above the water. Rescuers/lifeguards got to them pretty quickly. All three of them.had injuries but not life threatening.
gallois wrote:
The aircraft sank quite quickly leaving just the tail above the water
Most high-wingers will sink quickly until the wings are on the surface, it seemed to remain afloat quite long from that point on.
Report+interview (in French)
T7-SAR
That registration is like asking for a ditching (with ensuing search and rescue).
From here
aart wrote:
Obviously, over water I am always going to pull the chute.
I recently asked about the cost of having a BRS fitted to a homebuilt (organisation doing all the work…not me) and was given an indicative price of €12K+VAT. The type wasn’t an RV. But it’s worth thinking about.
Unless you build the home-build yourself, you’re putting a significant amount of faith in the builder. So a BRS, in addition to the ditching scenario, gives you a way out if the builder didn’t do their job very well.
Off topic, but with 3 ditchings at least in the past month (2 being Cessnas) I am beginning to think that there is another safety measure which could come in handy and that is one of those loud air horns.
If you are out at sea and you ditch even with a parachute, you habe probably manouvered towards the nearest boat. But how do you attract their attention? There is likely to be no engine noise to do it.
And if you want to ditch near a beach you need to be out of the way of bathers and lilos. And again with no engine noise how do you attract attention.
Sorry Peter🙃
Regarding the equipment…
Just example of one real ad hoc SAR flight in Dubrovnik (LDDU) area, end of 2022.
Life west + high visibility cover, emergency torch (visible)
+ (not visible) => emergency floating smoke can, small axe, PLB, Spare Air, additional air band radio packed in water prof container.
& the pilot is scuba diver, which can help too.
2 days of 450 km of low level flights along the shore line of Dubrovnik and islands in front, with some special VFR conditions.
Total 7,5 h with ferry flights.
Here picture of preparation for take off from LDSH
One of search patterns on known SW
dublinpilot wrote:
I recently asked about the cost of having a BRS fitted to a homebuilt (organisation doing all the work…not me) and was given an indicative price of €12K+VAT.
That’s sounds very reasonable. What aircraft was that?
LeSving wrote:
That’s sounds very reasonable. What aircraft was that?
It was for a Dyn Aero MCR4S.
