How do you plan the descent in emergency landing practice?

Do you experienced pilots just have a sixth sense about how to get the
aircraft exactly where it needs to be? Is it something you consciously
analyze throughout the descent or just instinctlvely do?

It helps to know the typical field size in your area. Then you could
think "this is my intended touchdown point, I want to be two fields to
a side and three fields behind it, and see it at an angle of, say, 40
degrees".

Mind you, I have never flown power, and I am not exactly experienced
either :-)

Bartek

brtlmj schrieb:

Glider pilots are taught to ignore altimeter during circuit and
landing.

Guess why I suggested the "looks about right" method... ;-)

brtlmj wrote:


Correct. Additionally, altimeter will tend to stick with engine off.

WHAT?

Knowing your power-off descent rate will help. In my plane, I know that
my power off descent rate at best glide speed is about 50% higher than the
500 ft./min rate that I generally use in a normal pattern. If I arrive at 1,
000 ft. AGL abeam of my landing spot. I know that I'll have to make an
abbreviated pattern to make the runway. I also aim for a spot a several
hundred feet down the landing area to prevent landing short. The sight
picture through the windshield on final will tell you where you're going to
go. If you're overshooting, your landing spot will move down. If you're
coming up short, the landing spot will move up in the windshield. I try to
overshoot slightly as I turn final, then adjust the descent rate with a hard
slip to put it down at the near edge of the landing area.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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Correct. Additionally, altimeter will tend to stick with engine off.
WHAT?

Engine off - no vibration - altimeter sticks.

B.

brtlmj wrote:
Correct. Additionally, altimeter will tend to stick with engine off.
WHAT?

Engine off - no vibration - altimeter sticks.

Yet another failure mode for liquid crystal displays I hadn't known about.
;-)

brtlmj wrote:
Correct. Additionally, altimeter will tend to stick with engine off.
WHAT?

Engine off - no vibration - altimeter sticks.

B.

In my one fixed wing engine out that didn't happen. But I could see where it
could.

Engine off - no vibration - altimeter sticks.

In my one fixed wing engine out that didn't happen. But I could see
where it could.

A parked altimeter consistently unmoved by overnight weather changes
could be a tip-off.

- FChE

On Oct 15, 12:57 pm, brtlmj wrote:
Correct. Additionally, altimeter will tend to stick with engine off.
WHAT?

Engine off - no vibration - altimeter sticks.

So what do they do during the IFR cert? Shake the plane around?

-Robert

Engine off - no vibration - altimeter sticks.
So what do they do during the IFR cert? Shake the plane around?

I have no idea. As I said, I do not fly power. Is shutting down an
engine (or all engines) in flight required as a part of any
certification?

Bartek