So what do you do when you are on 1/4-mile final and you spot a coyote
or two playing around in the middle of the runway? This has happened to
me repeatedly in Santa Fe and just serves to remind me that I want some
backup power just in case the landing isn't assured. Perhaps you don't
see this where you fly "routinely" but it could always be something else.
I typically pull the throttle all the way back to idle about 1/4 mile
out, Cessna 172.

-david
--
David Gunter
Santa Fe, NM

In Cub Driver wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:56:22 -0800, Ron Garret
wrote:

If you fly final with some amount of power (which I gather most people
do -- I always have) that seems to guarantee that if you lose your
engine on final you will land short, and there's pretty much nothing
you can do about it. Is that true?

Yes, that's true, and it's why the Old Timers taught power-off
landings, and it's why I fly them routinely.

(To tell the truth, I also like the feeling of whooshing down without
that engine blatting away. Perhaps I was a glider pilot in another
life.)


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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