HD Yak 50 Engine Failure, April 2010, UK

[Splitter]

WOW! Awesome video.

I found myself trying to turn my TrakIR head to check for landing areas lol.

Just curious....why not try wheels down? Fields too short for a roll out?

Splitter

[JVM]

I think he had the wheels down...and he left them behind him at touch down...look at the last images when he look at the trail made by the Yak..

[JG52Uther]

Wheels down landing could be fatal if he turned over.

[Azimech]

I had a genuine feeling of joy when I saw he stepped out, and really wanted a cigarette!

[Skoshi Tiger]

Thanks for sharing that video. It was interesting to see how much time he had to weigh up his options.

Good to see all that forced landing practice done during training actually works. Although, from memory, it was a lot less dramatic when you could push the throttle forward and climb away on final approach!


Cheers!

[rakinroll]

Wow!

[Fltlt_HardBall]

Yak-50s have semi-retractable undercarriage (like an IL-2!), which IIRC is designed for just such a situation - the ability to do a belly landing with minimal damage to the aircraft. That helmet cam was great, wasn't it? Very immersive

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by Fltlt_HardBall

That helmet cam was great, wasn't it? Very immersive

Indeed - 6DOF at its best

Very interesting video, thanks for sharing it!

[Fliegenpilz]

Sorry if I might sound a bit harsh... Just my 2cent...

This was NOT a "perfect" landing in one simple way: The Pilot did not fly a traffic pattern before landing, and made steep turns right above the ground! Surely he was lucky not to stall in that 45° turn, but he nearly had a fatal crash with that stonewall - just because from the beginning on he had no clue where to land, and constantly changed his mind right up to the end...

If I did a no-motor-practice-landing like this during my flight training, my flight instructor would have torn my head off!

Of course this is quite theoretical, and bearing in mind how stressfull such a situation can be (especially when there aren't such big flat fields like here in northern Germany ), the pilot did an excellent job! The wheel-up-decision was the best he could have made, and "every landing you can walk away from is a good landing", so: Well done!

Just wanted to relativise the "couldnt be better landing"-posts

Greetings, Fliegenpilz