This happened at my son's flight school.
Experienced student was performing solo flight (not his first). Came in for landing, veered off the right side of the runway into the grass. hmmm... all is well. He decided to pull himself out of the grass to get back on the runway, ran into a dip and the prop hit the dirt.
He kept going, thinking nothing was wrong. Taxied all the way back to the flight school apron (about a mile from the turn out). When he shut the engine down, both prop tips were bent. The plane sits with the rest of them sans engine for a complete tear down. Kinda weird seeing a cherokee with no prop on it. Plus it's kinda 'nose high'. :???:
I guess they don't go into details during training of... 'don't do this thing'.
This is just strange, I flew in this same plane back seat in December. I think this thing may be cursed! Heh, that flight in December, the cfi was unfamiliar with the plane and when putting the big sun shade tarp thing on it (gimme a break now folks! I dunno!), there was this small pocket on it to fit over some glass thing (?) on top of the cockpit.
He missed that thing and broke it!
I have no idea what it was, but my youngest son and I had removed and reinstalled that cover ourselves a week earlier, and I was very careful... I forget what that thing was, but it was pretty obvious to the casual observer to watch out for it.
Experienced student was performing solo flight (not his first). Came in for landing, veered off the right side of the runway into the grass. hmmm... all is well. He decided to pull himself out of the grass to get back on the runway, ran into a dip and the prop hit the dirt.
He kept going, thinking nothing was wrong. Taxied all the way back to the flight school apron (about a mile from the turn out). When he shut the engine down, both prop tips were bent. The plane sits with the rest of them sans engine for a complete tear down. Kinda weird seeing a cherokee with no prop on it. Plus it's kinda 'nose high'. :???:
I guess they don't go into details during training of... 'don't do this thing'.
This is just strange, I flew in this same plane back seat in December. I think this thing may be cursed! Heh, that flight in December, the cfi was unfamiliar with the plane and when putting the big sun shade tarp thing on it (gimme a break now folks! I dunno!), there was this small pocket on it to fit over some glass thing (?) on top of the cockpit.
He missed that thing and broke it!
I have no idea what it was, but my youngest son and I had removed and reinstalled that cover ourselves a week earlier, and I was very careful... I forget what that thing was, but it was pretty obvious to the casual observer to watch out for it.
