Cobra Daytona Coupe CSX2286

[Daytona Dek]

Originally Posted by Harpoon PV2

It's not the 90 hrs, in type that got him, it's the 23,000 arrogant hours that got him! At the height of BOB, pilots had as little as five hours in the Spit, and they didn't do such a rookie mistake! Cheers, Dennis

Agree. In a modern jet liner there would be all sorts of audible and visual warnings to prevent this sort of thing happening. In the Spit to get a reading from the fuselage tank a button has to be pressed (which wasnt). It can’t give a live reading all the time because it burns the filament out apparently. It might be unfair criticism but had he landed not so far down the grass strip he wouldn’t have damaged the plane by going into the hedge. Main thing though was that the pilot and passenger weren’t injured.