[Oz-mooney] Incident Report

[JChesbrough]

MessageSteve,
What a story!   That will be a good one for your book . . . . 
So pleased to hear you handled it so well
Cheers,
John Chesbrough

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Skinner 
  To: 'Australian Mooney Pilots Assocation List' 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:11 PM
  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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