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.
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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.
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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