CFI oral intel

On 2008-05-29, gatt wrote:
A question the examiner asked him: "You're flying cross-country and
trimmed at 110 knots. You die, and the engine quits. At what airspeed
will the aircraft strike the ground?"

CLOSE to 110 knots - factors will be the speed the aircraft will assume
at that trim setting with a windmilling propellor, and how big any
phugoid oscillations in the aircraft type is.

Another was, "You're turning final and you enter a cross-control stall.
Is it better to be in a slip, or a skid?"

Slip, in most aircraft. I actually tried to goad my Cessna 140 into a
spin from a slipped 'base to final' turn at altitude, and all it would
do was shake and mush. In a skidding turn though it'd happily do a spin
entry.

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From the sunny Isle of Man.
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