Just curious

Ramapriya wrote:

Wanted to know if you guys occasionally practice, at a safe altitude
with not too many passengers on board, stuff that *might* come in handy
should something dreadful happens - for example, shutting off an engine
or both and trying to judge, from the aircraft's rate of descent and
distance covered between two altitudes, how far ahead it can possibly
reach before reaching the ground, etc. Just to get a feel of things
real-time.

Yes, we practice dealing with emergencies. The most common emergency those of us
flying small planes practice is engine failure. Most of us do not actually turn
the engine off, however. We either reduce power as far as we can or we lean the
mixture out all the way.

Or is all of this restricted strictly to simulators?

Emergency procedures on large aircraft are practiced in simulators.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Ramapriya wrote:
Wanted to know if you guys occasionally practice, at a safe altitude
with not too many passengers on board, stuff that *might* come in
handy should something dreadful happens - for example, shutting off
an engine or both and trying to judge, from the aircraft's rate of
descent and distance covered between two altitudes, how far ahead it
can possibly reach before reaching the ground, etc. Just to get a
feel of things real-time.

This is required knowledge and skill, and you have to prove to the examiner
that you can do it before he will hand you your license. Actually a real
landing without power is one of the examination tasks.

Or is all of this restricted strictly to simulators?

Simulators? Who has simulators?

jue

On 7 Jan 2005 04:19:40 -0800, "Ramapriya" wrote:

Wanted to know if you guys occasionally practice, at a safe altitude
with not too many passengers on board, stuff t

Yes, certainly. I call it doing my school figures.

Landings, most often. Stalls and turns around a point. Power-off
landings and (once or twice) turning back to the field while climbing
out from takeoff.

I wouldn't do any of this while I had a pax on board, though to be
clear I seldom carry passengers, and I'm not qualified to do it for
hire.


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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:14:04 GMT, Bob Moore
wrote:

Hmmmm... where does it say that? I do it all the time.

Here's a photo of a guy who liked to start his Piper Cub while
airborne: http://www.pipercubforum.com/handprop.htm



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