Rans S-4 ground Loop

90% pleasure, 10% Excitement

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Ultralight
• Rans
• Crash
• Flying
• Airplane
• LSA
• Tailwheel

[Pipcornie]

Engine is fine. Scraped a couple prop tips.. Converting to nosewheel is about $500 for parts.

[tailwheelflier]

oh please,,,,,go back to your cessna 150,,,

[Pipcornie]

The plane and I are flying/landing fine now. New prop, couple of gear pieces, tail cone AND BUNGEES.

More time in Champs,Citabrias, and UL's than any "150"

[apexeon1]

Dude, What happened?? I 've got just enough tailwheel time for the rating and to be scared of one. Did you not use your feet or did you have a control linkage failure?

[Pipcornie]

Actually a bungee failed on the right mains, that's why the left wing went up.

[mas647]

@n5597e You gotta use your feet,I ground looped an Aeronca because I was too slow on reacting to yaw changes. No problems now

[Bravo21]

Ouch...hope that ground strike did not hurt your engine or prop. I love the aircraft, but I am wondering if Would it be possible to convert the Yote to tricycle gear. Can it be done at reasonable cost do you think? 

[straighttailpilot]

you lost control on takeoff? crosswind?

[FlightLevelHeaded]

Always replace your divots!

[born2flyalaska]

That sucks, see you tagged the prop too.

[skyypilot]

dang, that was scary!

[itsumonihon]

@Phantomx1e armchair pilot alert! this is a gear failure from the beginning, read his comments. you can judge from the video that the right main dropping way down while the left main is still on the ground .

[CoonBabble]

so much for NDH