ORIGINAL: Flytoolow
Has anyone here besides me had an emergency?
I had an emergency landing, after the engine shut down during a solo X-Country before i had my private ticket. The mixture cable broke, the carb went to full lean. The engine shut down, i did my checklists, declared an emergency, and landed in a field next to a quarry, next to a silo, over a ditch, and under power lines. Once on the ground, i called my instructor, and talked to the FAA. A mechanic came out that day and replaced the Mixture Cable. Once it was fixed, my instructor flew the plane back to K-_T.
Well done on your landing. I am also doing x country solo's and am always worried as to how well I would perform should something like that happen.
A question to all the airplane mechanices Regarding the mixture cable. Wouldn't it make more sense to have it fail in full rich so that the engine would still be running? The throttle is like that isn't it?