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Old 06-17-2007 | 07:50 PM
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felixone
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Default RE: It had to happen eventually

It is not in the runway, it is actually 15-20' or so feet back from the flight line. The plane just went that far off track. I have gone over it many times since it happened, I really don't know what I could have done outside of stopping as soon as I noticed it was tracking off at low speed. However our runway is pretty rough and I generally have to do slight corrections until I get close to take off speed. Everything was going pretty well, I had gone almost 25' going nearly dead straight before it veered almost 90 degrees to the left. I killed everything as quickly as I could, so much so that it was going just barely over taxi speed when it hit. Even if it had been a person I hit I doubt it would have hurt. It just happened to hit at just the right spot.

I know this though, before the plane goes in the air again I will be doing quite a bit of taxiing around the runway to make sure I have resolved the front wheel issue.