It seems like there's really only one thing to train an ASEL pilot
trainsitioning to self launch: if the engine quits on takeoff,
then the extended engine is just a huge airbrake, so your glide
ratio goes to poop and the pitch forces are changed. Recognise this
and make your choice to turn back or
go straight accordingly, not based on regular glide.

I'm not self-launch endorsed, but other than this and the fact your
engine is probably a $10,000 one cylinder chainsaw engine that causes
double vision, I can't figure what is so different...

flame away

In article ,
Steve Hill wrote:
I got the self launch endorsement because my insurance required me to for
operating the DG-400...but it sure strikes me as odd that if you have an
ASEL certificate...and a glider rating...that the combination of the two
would not suffice...add to that a high-performance and taildragger sign
off...and I never have understood what the self launch sign off was intended
to accomplish.

Maybe it's me, but it sure seems silly when you have pilots with both power
and glider ratings. I can see the self launch sign-off if you only have a
Glider certificate...


Steve.






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