"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote in message
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If you are faced with a full blown emergency such as an engine
failure, what are you going to do?

Let's see. Carb heat and/or switching tanks worked a couple times. Landing
straight ahead on the runway worked too. I've never had to make an
off-airport landing. (Unlike my little sister who ran out of gas on her
student cross country solo - "I told them to fill the tanks, but I guess I
forgot to check..." No damage, but she made the local small town paper.)

Had an "important looking" part fall out from behind the panel once. We
thought it might be a bushing from the control system so we (my brother and
I) made our way to the nearest airport with the absolute minimum of control
action - notified the traffic via CTAF, and made a straight in approach. It
turned out to be part of a radio mount...

Anyone want to hazard a guess at the major number of engine failure
causes?

1 -Fuel starvation.

2 - Carb Ice.

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Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
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