First real emergency

Okay got a master done, I'll throw it up on a website for you here in a minute, and since it's Copyright by LiveATC, I tossed a note to Dave Pascoe to let him know I made it from his recordings.

I'll do a quick cut-down to just the highlights, also. Gimme a few minutes to upload the master and chop-chop for the highlight reel. :)
 
Okay, files posted. I stuck 'em on my ham radio club's server. It doesn't have massive bandwidth, so everyone be nice... haha... or more likely, don't whine if everyone overloads the box.

Here's the full "start to finish" LiveATC KAUS feed files merged together in real-time timeline:
http://www.w0cra.org/downloads/Nate-Temporary/DavidWhite_C210_SmokeInCockpit_KAUS_LiveATC_Feeds.mp3

Notes from the full file:

00:00 starts at his checkin with KAUS Approach
03:15 after vectors to San Marcos, requesting lights
04:40 phone number offer/refusal
05:40 request CTAF frequency
09:35 just the callsign?
29:45 Approach talking about David to another aircraft because San Marcos is closed then says you're okay and airport is open.

That's all I caught, if I missed something, someone let me know.

Here's the "highlights" file, with 1 second 440 Hz sine-waves (beeps) between the transmissions, 2 minutes 12 seconds long:

http://www.w0cra.org/downloads/Nate-Temporary/DavidWhite_C210_Smoke_Condensed_From_LiveATC.mp3
 
Thanks Nate! Is there a way I can download those and put them on youtube?
 
Should be able to right-click on them, "Save File As"... if your browser is just playing them instead of downloading them.

If that doesn't work, shoot me a PM with an e-mail address and I'll e-mail 'em to you so you can do whatever you like with them. Technically I haven't heard back from Dave Pascoe at LiveATC yet... so I'm jumping the gun a little bit posting them here, but I think Dave will be okay with anything posted as long as LiveATC.Net is mentioned as the source.
 
Ah ok I see it now. I'll wait till' you hear something from Dave. I can't thank you enough for this
 
Excellent job... you kept your cool, you made all the right decisions and you got yourself safely on the ground. I am impressed-- now you know what you're made of.

Good job. Take care of your hand!
 
Tracey said:
Is that the secret to pilot bravado???? Send me some!!
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Jesse tried to convince me that they were a requirement of a well-balanced diet when working on an IFR ticket in Nebraska. :rofl:

I hear that Red Bull is not considered all that useful.

I mostly mainlined the Starbucks coffee from the automated brewing machine at SilverHawk. It was both for the caffeine content and the heat...
 
Good job David, glad everything went well....also glad to hear things went well on the dog front too!!
 
Holy cow! Just saw this, David. Bravo Zulu for a job really well done.

My only emergency was smoke in the cockpit of a Cessna retract as well, so is the takeaway message, "avoid Cessna retracts?"

Glad all's well!

So why was Jesse with Ted, or are we talking about a different Ted or Jesse?

In any event, I'll fly with you any time! :thumbsup:
 
Wow, you really handled that like a pro. Good for you!!
Dave
 
Just listening to the ATC recordings made my blood pressure go up; great work and outcome.
 
Bravo Zulu!

Excellent write-up of a first-class job. Whoever owns that plane should be very grateful - I can imagine folks deciding that fire-smoke was all the emergency they were willing to deal with and leave the gear in the wells for the landing.
 
The ATC guy and the pilot checking to see if you made a safe landing sounded a whole lot more upset and nervous than you did, LOL. You really kept your cool... good job!
 
I can only wish that I would handle thing that well if I were in the same situation.

"No sir, I need to fly the airplane" - Great response.
 
airguy said:
Just out of curiosity, and so I know for future reference - which airplanes WILL tolerate old hoses and hydraulic leaks? I need to know to make sure I only own one of those...
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Well, you don't want to "tolerate" that at all. For example, you spring a leak on retraction and the gear never raises. The gear pump will keep pumping and pumping trying to get the up limit switches to indicate gear is up. If you don't have a pullable circuit breaker on the gear pump, it'll pump until it burns itself out. Not good.

Ghery said:
Well, hydraulic pressure holds the gear up in an Arrow. Lose pressure and the gear comes down all by itself. Have fun raising it again, however. :D
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The single-engine Commanders are like this as well.
 
Excellent job David! Glad you are OK.

I'm curious how the gear pump handle became so hot it burned your hand. Anybody have any guesses?
 
Glad to hear your ok! I saw the 210 parked at the fuel pumps at 5c1 when I was leaving last night. Must have been just before you left.
 
Terrific job, glad you are OK and managed to get the plane down with all of the paint still intact. I base at 5C1, see that 210 all the time and my dad is taking lessons with Ryan in our plane.

Hope to meet ya someday-
David
 
Great job, David. I'm so glad that everything worked out well.
 
That is the epitome of a professional pilot there. Great job David!
 
Great job David!

Since you're a young guy, make SURE that you hang onto the audio forever. It might make good resume material some day.

Glad you're okay! Take care of the hand.
 
Nice job handling the situation. Nice being able to go back and listen to the tapes as well.
 
Great job dude! This brings up a question for the group. I have small "erosol" fire extinguisher in the passenger front pocket of my plane. The kind that looks like a can of spray paint. I have no idea what legal fire extinguishers are approved for airplanes. I never fly over 9K feet, so i haven't been worried about it blowing up... but I've been meaning to check on the legalities of flying with a fire extinguisher. Does anyone know what they are?
 
KS Arrow Pilot said:
Great job dude! This brings up a question for the group. I have small "erosol" fire extinguisher in the passenger front pocket of my plane. The kind that looks like a can of spray paint. I have no idea what legal fire extinguishers are approved for airplanes. I never fly over 9K feet, so i haven't been worried about it blowing up... but I've been meaning to check on the legalities of flying with a fire extinguisher. Does anyone know what they are?
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I'd make sure it's halon based.
 
Good work! Fire in flight is real bad news. Were you thinking about belly landing it?
 
KS Arrow Pilot said:
Great job dude! This brings up a question for the group. I have small "erosol" fire extinguisher in the passenger front pocket of my plane. The kind that looks like a can of spray paint. I have no idea what legal fire extinguishers are approved for airplanes. I never fly over 9K feet, so i haven't been worried about it blowing up... but I've been meaning to check on the legalities of flying with a fire extinguisher. Does anyone know what they are?
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bartmc said:
I'd make sure it's halon based.
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Most likely it's dry powder.

Huge mess. Choking cloud of dust. But, if you need it, you need it. It might even work (with luck).

It won't blow uhttp://www.kidde.com/utcfs/ws-384/Assets/468128 - Kitchen Extinguish.pdfp This one for example, has 100 PSI in it. A couple PSI difference due to altitude isn't going to make much difference.

Halon is good stuff, but it works best in enclosed places. Your aircraft may or may not qualify...
 
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dell30rb said:
Good work! Fire in flight is real bad news. Were you thinking about belly landing it?
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I thought about it, but the smoke started clearing and I figured I had enough time to do one circle and bring it down manually.
 
redtail said:
David, I was wondering what your first thoughts were about the origin of the smoke? Engine, electrical or what.
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At first I thought electrical so I shut down everything except my #2 comm, but that didn't clear it up so I turned everything back on. I didn't think it was an engine fire because it was running well and everything was in the green.
 
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