After blowing up an engine at night 20 years ago, I was a real Nervous Nelly in
that particular plane at night from there on, but made myself do it anyway,
sweaty palms and all. It didn't seem to bother me in any other plane. I have
always flown with emergency landing sites in the back of my m
I think a good scare is in order every once in a while. I have never flown
the same after I had my engine quite because of a factory caused mag failure
on my VW. Had it quit one other time doing a high speed flyby and pulling to
45 degrees and then banking 90 (uncovered the fuel supply hole). That
4 Feb 2009 3:31 am
Subject: RE: KR> engine out take off
Joe raises a very important point here "keep the wing flying".
As a glider instructor we teach/practice launch failures a lot. The
most
important thing is to get the nose down and maintain a safe speed near
the
ground (1.5 X
quits, you look through the chin bubble and that's where
you are going to land. 38 seconds is an eternity. Enjoy the ride. :)
Todd Thelin
Balad Iraq
-Original Message-
From: joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
To: kr...@mylist.net
Sent: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 1:59 am
Subject: KR> engine
quits, you look through the chin bubble and that's where
you are going to land. 38 seconds is an eternity. Enjoy the ride. :)
Todd Thelin
Balad Iraq
-Original Message-
From: joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
To: kr...@mylist.net
Sent: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 1:59 am
Subject: KR> engine
Joe raises a very important point here "keep the wing flying".
As a glider instructor we teach/practice launch failures a lot. The most
important thing is to get the nose down and maintain a safe speed near the
ground (1.5 X stall speed). Winch launches are truly exhilarating as you can
have arou
I'll always remember what my instructor said to me when I became a bit
stressed after the engine actually died when he cut the throttle at 300 ft
during takeoff on a flight test. He said "come on, you've flown out of here
plenty of times, you should know where you're going to put it down". The
ch
Guys,
All the conversation is great on the subject and everyone is a benefactor of
it. The only thing beyond the knowledge is the ability to process it at the
right time and the fastest possible way. I have one very real engine out on
take off and I consider myself very lucky (I often say I am t
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