On Mar 25, 10:51*am, soartech wrote:
I almost snickered a bit after watching this "real life" story about
how a pilot had to land his plane after loosing engine power at 500
feet. After 35 years of flying gliders this looks normal to me. Maybe
power planes are really hard to fly. This guy has 4700 hours and he
overshot his turn onto the runway and lands way left of the center
line.
I think the solution is that every new power pilot should be required
to have 20 flights in gliders before even stepping into a plane with
an engine.http://flash.aopa.org/asf/pilotstori...turn/index.cfm

Too bad the AOPA site did not point out the obvious error that the
pilot could have made a 270 degree left turn onto the cross runway and
been much safer than the 360 degree turns required to go back to the
same runway.