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MauleMechanic · Post by **MauleMechanic** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 3:42 pm

Watch the yoke movement in this landing. He initiates left input, the right wing goes up and if it had been a taildragger...bye bye.

http://youtu.be/e7zFPkyzb6Q?t=1m10s

more
http://youtu.be/WO0gpT31YIE?t=1m37s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vglejdWwsk

http://youtu.be/Xwc552bHw8s?t=1m43s

Njacko · Post by **Njacko** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:02 pm

Hey Brian, we've got the message - you want to get us all frit so we'll come and trade our nasty spiteful Maules for the pile of sweet docile CessPipas which you just happen to have in back of your hangar/paddling pool? Nice try.

Now, probably clutching at straws, but do the Maule stats look any better when filtered for fatal/non-fatal? I mean, statistically we're all crap at landing, but are we any better at avoiding PUI, stall/spin and CFIT? And before we do FIT, do we mostly have the presence of mind to grab some flap and slow down so it won't hurt too bad?

ATB, Peter

MauleMechanic · Post by **MauleMechanic** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:08 pm

Njacko wrote:Hey Brian, we've got the message - you want to get us all frit so we'll come and trade our nasty spiteful Maules for the pile of sweet docile CessPipas which you just happen to have in back of your hangar/paddling pool? Nice try.

Now, probably clutching at straws, but do the Maule stats look any better when filtered for fatal/non-fatal? I mean, statistically we're all crap at landing, but are we any better at avoiding PUI, stall/spin and CFIT? And before we do FIT, do we mostly have the presence of mind to grab some flap and slow down so it won't hurt too bad?

ATB, Peter

lol

Not sure how to filter that. I can take a look.

Maulehigh · Post by **Maulehigh** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:17 pm

crbnunit wrote:Maulehigh; I can attest to the ruggedness of these aircraft. I have flipped it (my shortest landing to date!) and walked away with only a bruise. I have hammered some landings in really nasty places that would have rendered a Cessna a recycle item. The Maule shrugs it off and flies like it is just another day. Some of the accidents I have seen up here support my thoughts. These things are very safe.

Hence my initial scepticism of Brian's statement "as a matter of fact if a guy or girl is going to crash as cessna during landing or a Piper Cherokee during landing he shall kill himself in a maule with the same conditions"!

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:39 pm

Guys!!! there are a couple of realities involved in flying a Maule.
1. It takes attention to detail, you have to pay attention
2. preferably you should have your finger out your arse when you land the plane
3. she is a handful in a x wind
4. you have to be rudder literate.

if you dont adhere to these rules in a Cessna/piper/whatever you might be forgiven, but not in a Maule.
adhere to the rules and you will do things and go places the sofa planes can only dream off.

my particular plane has its own personality, i.e. be careful of the stall, she drops the left wing violently, and so has each Maule its own personality, even when flying the same model. That is why I fly one, I enjoy the adventure

MauleMechanic · Post by **MauleMechanic** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:41 am

Maulehigh wrote:
crbnunit wrote:Maulehigh; I can attest to the ruggedness of these aircraft. I have flipped it (my shortest landing to date!) and walked away with only a bruise. I have hammered some landings in really nasty places that would have rendered a Cessna a recycle item. The Maule shrugs it off and flies like it is just another day. Some of the accidents I have seen up here support my thoughts. These things are very safe.
Hence my initial scepticism of Brian's statement "as a matter of fact if a guy or girl is going to crash as cessna during landing or a Piper Cherokee during landing he shall kill himself in a maule with the same conditions"!

You better wake up David

Brenton C · Post by **Brenton C** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:16 am

It seems to me, at least in part, the disagreement is because 2 different but related things are being discussed as one.

One issue is the relative safety of the Maule where it crashes with the same force as another brand.

The other issue is point that if flown and landed the same way as the Docile-aire brand competition, the Maule is less forgiving, and more prone to crack up.

Correct me if wrong, but I think Brian's contributions regarding the 2nd point are sometime being also heard as arguing against the first point.

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:29 am

I ground looped the Maule spectacularly and walked away
I crashed a Cessna spectacularly and walked away
I crashed a Chieftain spectacularly and walked away.

I think all these planes appears to be equally safe in a crash

MauleMechanic · Post by **MauleMechanic** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:37 am

David I see your point what I'm trying to say is that if you wreck a Cessna then you're really going to wreck a maule in the same or less conditions. Statistically from what I can find there are more deaths in the maule crashes than in Cessna crashes.however those deaths are normally the results of a catastrophic crash. What I could not find is injury statistics for a given severity of crash.

LT4247 · Post by **LT4247** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:31 am

DANG! 5 pages and 69 posts?! You have a knack for stirring things up.

MauleMechanic wrote:Stop breaking your airplanes....I have Maules coming out of my ears! I need a vacation!

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:34 am

Spot on LT, but it shows the passion pilots have for their maules

Hottshot · Post by **Hottshot** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:39 am

MauleMechanic wrote:Watch the yoke movement in this landing. He initiates left input, the right wing goes up and if it had been a taildragger...bye bye.

http://youtu.be/e7zFPkyzb6Q?t=1m10s

more
http://youtu.be/WO0gpT31YIE?t=1m37s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vglejdWwsk

http://youtu.be/Xwc552bHw8s?t=1m43s

Thanks Brian, I just wasted the last hour watching Hot young female pilots fly airplanes.. ... hell Im done for the day....

chris erasmus · Post by **chris erasmus** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:58 am

Share the links to the hot young female pilots!!

MauleMechanic · Post by **MauleMechanic** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:53 pm

BillB · Post by **BillB** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:24 pm

Before I bought my Maule a few years ago, I went through the NTSB database. What I recall, most Maule accidents were runway excursions on landing. Of the reports that specified, all the excursions were to the left.
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