Chuck wrote:

Well I did not make it to Arlington. I was over the Grand Canyon at 12000

ft when the engine suddenly started shaking and RPM

dropped to 3900. . . . GPS reported nearest airport was Marble Canyon 21

miles away. Set up best glide, headed for

Marble Canyon, looked at EGT and rotor #1 (rear rotor in RV6, front rotor

in car) was showing <400F. 12 minutes later, Marble

Canyon was 1 1/2 miles out but could not reach it so I set up approach on

Highway 89A.

Thomas Parkes wrote:

Chuck:  Like everyone else, I was sorry to hear of your engine failure, but
very happy that you came through unscratched.  As they say, any landing you
can walk away from . .. . .

I drive that stretch of 89A every few months to visit relatives, and have
flown into Marble Canyon many times.  Did you land west of the Colorado
River or on the east side?  If you were coming from the southwest
paralleling 89A, you may have overflown the dirt strip at Cliff Dwellers
Lodge about five miles before Marble Canyon.  Admittedly its not much of an
airport, and isn't in any GPS data base I'm familiar with, but any port in a
storm . . . .

Tom Parkes

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