"Dave S" wrote in message
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JJS wrote:
The SQ2000 guy was flying a rotary (mazda derivative) engine that had what
the rotary community believes was an intermittent fuel supply program and
was in flight test at the time. The aircraft had made one dead-stick due
to what the community assumed was a vapor lock. This was a fairly low
altitude turn back and landing on-field but off-runway. After some re-work
on the fuel system he went up again, and on one of the subsequent flights
weeks later lost power very low, and tried to make another low turn back
to the runway. He ended up in trees.

Same tactic killed Wiley Post and Will Rogers. Don't fly myself, but in a
lifetime of reading
I've seen several references to crashes occuring from pilots trying to turn
back to a runway
when they had a reasonably flat bit of terrain in front of them. It's been
said that Post knew better, but had the family fortune tied up in the plane
he and Will were traveling in and just let that drive his decision making.
What do some of you actual pilots think?

Harold
KD5SAK