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mxt180 · Post by **mxt180** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:29 am

A friend of mine was landing his C-180 last week after a pleasure flight with a first-time passenger in the right seat. After an uneventful touchdown on asphalt he applied the brakes and the plane veered suddenly to the left, off the runway and was heavily damaged complete with a prop strike - probably a total loss. Fortunately, everyone is okay.

Turns out the right brake worked fine - the passenger had his foot behind the right rudder pedal.

crbnunit · Post by **crbnunit** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:48 pm

Mountain Doctor · Post by **Mountain Doctor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:04 pm

I pay attention to the floor mats for the same reason.

I have a very large friend with very big feet.

I'll keep an eye on him for sure.

Mauleguywanab · Post by **Mauleguywanab** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:46 pm

This is so sad!!!! Everyone will feel bad about this one for a while:-(( Thanks for the tip and I will be sure to add that one to the list. My wife is an excellent co-pilot so I do not stay in the habbit of double checking new passengers. I will now.

LT4247 · Post by **LT4247** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:20 am

Good idea!

Landing checklist: Passenger feet back and flat on floor - CHECK

Lowflybye · Post by **Lowflybye** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:57 am

http://youtu.be/gmYH9dEhFvs

After this incident we made sure to include "feet on the floor" to the pre-landing brief when we take riders in the Stearman. It's a good idea to visually check the passenger's feet in the Maule as well.

In this case the front seater was a news cameraman and he used the rudder pedals to push himself higher in the seat for a better video of the landing just about the time they were touching down...too late for the pilot to do anything about it and the rest is history.

There was some video of this "landing" from the front seat cameraman as well, but I can't seem to find it.

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