dear sir , I have had the pleasure of landing a chipmunk with jammed controls .I am about to publish the story. What I would like to propose, is that your organisation might like to try and re-enact the events that I experienced over the mountains in South Africa. Not for one minute am I suggesting that you do this in flight but , what you could do ,is go through the process of proving that this could happen again .
In doing a straight roll , with inverted plumbing , the wooden seat insert in the rear seat, dislodged it self from under the seat belts and got jammed between the control stick and the cockpit side wall.
This particular wooden insert , was shaped like a double TT . The pilots bottom rested on the top of the double TT.
It took all my strength to squeeze the jammed seat insert up the rear cockpit stick , to enable me to level the wings,when I tried to flick the stick to unjam the control stick . The seat insert slid back down the stick once again jamming the stick in the full roll position. If you are interested in the full story ,I would be happy to share it with you when it is published .
In the mean time one of your members with access to a Chipmunk that still has the wooden plywood insert that replaces the parachute , might want to try to re-enact my prediciment. Casey Wilford tel no + 27834568188
