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N144GP Lancair Super ES
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Date: 7-25-2012
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Number of Hours: 1.29
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Brief Description: Flight #10, engine failure, emergency landing
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Well, not a good day. Lost my engine and had to do an emergency landing at N94-Carlisle (about 20 miles west of KCXY). Complete loss of oil, engine seized, prop stopped. Uneventful emergency landing at N94 thanks to some good training from Colin Ball and most recently Bob Jeffrey, good luck and some help from above. Happened very quickly...running well for about an hour. Was working on max speed TAS tests...about 187 TAS at 6500, WOT, 2500 RPM leaned 100 rich of peak. Was working on some AP and flight director work from PSB-AOO, heading to KTHV. Gauges had been green about 30 minutes prior, although I admit being focused on AP/FD stuff since then. About 1 hour into a 1.29 flight, I got a low oil pressure alarm...at 10 PSI...should be around 50. Immediately turned 080 back to KCXY and checked on with Harrisburg approach. Pressure was low but seemed to be holding, running fine. Turned to NEAREST on Garmin 530.... either N68 (Chambersburg) or N94 Carlisle. Proceeded east still at 5500' and had N94 in mind. Approx 7 minutes after the first alarm the pressure started dropping 9-8-7 over a minute or two. At 1:15 ALT short, running rough, N94 in sight. Started descent. At 1:17:30 into flight, engine shook, prop stopped. Declared emergency with Harrisburg approach, told them I had N94 in sight and was going to glide in there. They told me they would make some calls for help at N94. Power off, dead stick, nice sweeping overhead approach. Had already pulled throttle and mixture back, when engine got rough, fuel off, mags off, door latch open, missed pulling prop back (sorry Bob) A little high and fast at arrival end, but turned, slight slip, flaps down, master off, and dropped down to runway, still a bit fast, but touched down at about 1000' of the 4000' runway. Actually a nice landing. Rolled to the end and pulled to the side. 3 minutes since declaring the emergency and about 14 minutes since the alarrm went off. Must have been losing the oil at a pretty fast rate. No other damage to aircraft or
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