On the Wrong Side of the Drag Curve
This discussion contains extracts from the SACAA’s accident report. It is compiled in the interest of promoting of aviation safety and not to establish legal liability.
Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.
Aiming to make safer pilots of us, here veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official CAA Accident Reports from his homeland of South Africa and analyses why things went wrong and how we may all avoid making similar mistakes.
Date of accident: 21 October 2008
Time of accident: 0609Z
Aircraft registration: ZS-JZF
Type of aircraft: Piper Lance PA32R-300
Pilot licence: PPL
Licence valid: Yes
Pilot age: 56
Total flying hours: 297
Hours on type: 176
Rand Aerodrome (FAGM) Gauteng.
