Quandumphone Senior Heliman Location: Yuma, AZ
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Torque and P-Factor would make it go left, not right. Also, look at the smoke after the crash. The crosswind is very apparent. One last note, the pilot was probably using soft-field technique, which would partly explain the high nose at rotation. What's supposed to happen after that is the aircraft remaining low over the runway in ground effect while it gains more speed. So, once the wheels were off the ground, the nose should have been lowered to stay a few feet above the runway. All bets were off once he veered to the right.
That said, with all the crap they put in the back, the plane was probably tail heavy and overloaded. |