Just putting this out there, because it's happened to me.C.W.E. wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 7:39 amThe split second it takes you to move your hand from the control wheel to the throttles can be the difference between saving a landing when the wind suddenly changes in the flare or driving the gear through the wings.
And that is why I fly them with one hand on the wheel and the other hand on the throttle's.
I have yet to fly an airplane that had controls so hard to move I needed two hands to move them
Isn't it possible that this could have happened with an incorrectly indicating airspeed indicator. One that indicated, but hung before 40 knots, or was slow rising up to that?
Back in 87, I bought an A-26 Onmark conversion as an investment. It was situated at West Houston airport and I'd had a guy who was to be the training pilot for the type rating come and check it out as he was also an A&P. We had to take it to Lakefront in N.O. to get some work done on the gill mechanism. We both arrive there, me from La Jolla and this guy from Covington, GA, get in and taxi to the end, runups, everything. Line up, do the takeoff briefing, I think V1 was 140 mph. 4000 feet of runway. We add power, all normal, full power, airspeed alive, but it is slowing around 70 mph and if we reject, we're through a cow fence and into a pasture. So the guy says, "something's wrong, we got speed, rotate" And I did, and we had lots of speed. We go to Lakefront at max indicated around 140, and land.
First thing they do the next day is go into the airspeed system. They find some kind of big larvae blocking the pitot line.
So, in this instance, is it possible that the pilot never saw 40 knots, never tried to raise the tail, and was caught by surprise by the liftoff?