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Touchdown! Greaser!
Some observations:
1. “Shaffer-Ray made the comment the right rudder input on the ground was delayed and felt different than when we were at KGAI.” The student tells me the rudder doesn’t seem right, I am checking it out. Yet the CFI doesn’t determine if there was a problem. Then the pilots observe a flap selection issue with the plane and ignore that too. Airplanes will give you warnings if you will listen. Was this a mechanical issue? Maybe. Rule 1, don’t take a sick plane into the sky. Rule 2, discontinue the flight when a mechanical issue occurs.
2. The CFI could have added some risk management and margin of safety to this maneuver by having the student land at the aim point vs the end of the runway - at least for this pilot’s first attempt. Did the CFI first demonstrate this manuver and had this pilot ever did a power off 180?
3. The CFI let a simulated emergency decay and turn into a real one.
4. The 600 hour CFI is extremely shocked this event happened considering his whooping 600 hours total time and now he is willing to get further training. (Please FAA give me a 709 and don’t take certificate action)
While some may argue this was a crap happened flight - in my view the CFI is responsible for this accident.
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