Rear Control Stick caught in front seat shoulder harness
I had a really close call on a take off attempt. On the take off roll, when I pushed the stick forward to raise the tail it became caught in my shoulder harness behind my seat. As I gained speed and started to apply back pressure the stick wouldn’t come back. The plane came off of the ground a few feet and it took a couple of seconds for me to decide to abort. I pulled the throttle back and the plane settled back to the ground in the wheel landing configuration. I couldn’t get the stick back to get the tail wheel on the ground for tail wheel steering so, as most of the runway was behind me it was very difficult to go straight and get stopped before hitting the fence. I did manage though.
Have any of you experienced anything like this?
I think I’ll install keepers for the shoulder straps in such a way as to prevent this from happening again.
Advice?
I had a really close call on a take off attempt. On the take off roll, when I pushed the stick forward to raise the tail it became caught in my shoulder harness behind my seat. As I gained speed and started to apply back pressure the stick wouldn’t come back. The plane came off of the ground a few feet and it took a couple of seconds for me to decide to abort. I pulled the throttle back and the plane settled back to the ground in the wheel landing configuration. I couldn’t get the stick back to get the tail wheel on the ground for tail wheel steering so, as most of the runway was behind me it was very difficult to go straight and get stopped before hitting the fence. I did manage though.
Have any of you experienced anything like this?
I think I’ll install keepers for the shoulder straps in such a way as to prevent this from happening again.
Advice?