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Ok, so I just had my PPL checkride and was feeling pretty good. Everything had gone great during the summer and my friends all knew I was becoming a pilot so it was the plan we would go flying before we all went to college. One of our friends was already at college in LEX so we were going to take a day trip down. The friend I was taking was visibally a little nervous and so was I for some reason.....But I explained to him what was going on as I did my preflight, how the headphones worked etc...Everything relaxed and it felt like it had every other flight, leaving the same FBO and my CFI waving goodbye. After talking to the tower, taxiing into position and hold and then a nice smooth takeoff climbout was going great. My great felt calm and was enjoying himself and the airplane was preforming nicely. Just as I was going to mention to him to look out the right side and see a famous local landmark, I noticed the A/C started to vibrate, more and more. I could feel as well as the VSI indicated we stopped climbing, and I looked at the RPM seeing it drop through 2000 going down, it should have been at 2500. I started a right turn and for a split second thought this cant be happening....Two seconds later the RPM was passing through 1500 and the engine was making this violent backfireing high pitch kind of noise....Not the normal humm. So I calmy told my buddy, because he had no idea nothing was wrong that we would be returning to Lunken and then called Lunken's tower and said "Lunken tower cessna ....29H is expieriencing and engine failure need to return now" The ATC were great, She cleared me to land on a runway facing the way we took off, then told the other planes essentially to watch out. From here I pitched for 60kts but we were already a little high considering we were almost on top of the field and were really in a great position to land. Lowered the flaps, put the throttle to idle and actually had really good power off landing....And we were able to make the first high speed turn off. I stopped the A/C there becsause it was backfiring crazy and reving from no power in short bursts. Shut the airplane down and got a tow in. As the mx investigated, after takeoff a "cap" or "gasgit"? blew causing the engine to lose 3 of four cylinders, so not a complete engine failure I guess.....
But needless to say we drove to LEX instead!
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wow, nice job. ever get that guy to go back up with you?
[/ QUOTE ] I obviously don't have much expierience flying pax, hence the only pax i had was in the air for 60 seconds and we had an emergency landing. But when this happened He was so oblivious to the emergency that was going on he doesn't have a problem flying again. Actually he wants to go up, so were flying in about a month. Does anyone have expierence with emergencies and pax and how they respond and stuff?
wes