[Oz-mooney] Incident Report

[Gary McKernan]

Steve,
 
Glad to hear you managed the situation well.  Maybe we should do a bulk
purchase of Smoke Hoods.  
 
Teresa and I left Cairns for Parafield via Longreach, and had an "incident"
ourselves on mid final at Longreach where we intended to refuel.  We were
about 2 miles from touchdown on RWY 22 when an RV4 cut in front of us by
turning early base abeam the threshold and landed in front of us. Very
unprofessional.
 
 
Cheers
 
 
Gary McKernan
 
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From: oz-mooney-bounces at mooney.org.au
[mailto:oz-mooney-bounces at mooney.org.au] On Behalf Of Steve Skinner
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:12 PM
To: 'Australian Mooney Pilots Assocation List'
Subject: [Oz-mooney] Incident Report
 
 
Firstly thank you all. We had a great time at Airlie Beach and met some
really nice people - An experience we hope to repeat at other flyins
As you know Chris Wrightson and I went to Undara for the night and I flew on
to Longreach on Tuesday. Wehad a great time - took all day at the Qantas
museum and missed Hall of Fame
Departed YLRE at 0703 and climbed to F130. At 1900 10 miles south of Roma
Brigid said "I can smell smoke"
The head sets then went US and then there was a big cloud of smoke and
smell from the instrument panel followed by a loud bang.
Now I'm all for analasis and problem solving but now is not the time.
I took off the auto pilot and headed for the ground. I had Brigid searching
ERSA for deck height of Roma and ctaf
Called atc for pal frequency. Couldn't get the lights on now and atc was
telling me I was trying to make it happen on there frequency - no I said
must be com 2 failure   so I dialled up pal on com 1 eventually. I did the
decent and approach to down wind without looking out the cockpit using my
efis to get me to a downwind position  as the ground is very sparce in the
area of Roma I had started my decent on instruments and felt comfortable
staying that way.    
All this time the smell was stressing us both somewhat awaiting the
potential flames.
Landed safely went to pub
This morning with the aid of mobile phone and technician we worked out that
the audio panel has blown up and cooked itself (never seen it before
apparently) so I pulled the breaker and flew home.  But not before the duty
manager had me fill in the Incident report which no doubt will appear in
print somewhere along the line  
I was surprised that Brigid was happy to get back in the plane with me after
last night - so that was a good bonus.
Lesson of the day I think, is to land immediately if there is smoke in the
cabin (I had set up a decent rate of 2000 ft a minute there for a while with
an angle of bank approching 90 degrees - seemed to work well and didn't
exceed vne.
Bye all See you at the next flyin
Steve and Brigid Skinner 
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