Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Flight Engineer
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 15; Flight Crew Total 23040; Flight Crew Type 350
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Aircraft Equipment Problem Dissipated; Flight Crew Landed As Precaution; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Emergency landing using dry lake bed inside a Wilderness Area. Hinge pin on left side engine cowling became distended toward propeller. Re-set pin and continued to destination.
A pilot landed his Experimental Bearhawk off airport to reset a left side engine cowling hinge pin which was working it was toward the propeller then departed for his destination.