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Video: Student Pilot Loses Engine In Cessna 150: What Happens Next Is Riveting
Plane & Pilot ^
| 20 July 2021
| Plane & Pilot
Posted on 07/21/2021 6:12:29 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Learning to fly is hard enough. Learning to fly in a plane that becomes a glider is just not fair! But see the landing spot he picks out!
A student pilot was out on a routine training flight when the engine on the Cessna 150 training plane he was flying started acting up before going dead altogether. Things started going haywire shortly after he called the Concord tower inbound at 2,200 MSL (about 1,500 feet above ground level) nine miles southeast of the airport for a full-stop landing.
And before we go, let us just say, “Great job, dude!”
(Excerpt) Read more at planeandpilotmag.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: glider
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"I'd rather be lucky than good."
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:12:29 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:18:41 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Haywire...?
I know what means. Just haven’t seen or heard used in a serious context in decades.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:19:47 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: G Larry
BFD. He followed his training. Kudos to his CFI.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:20:08 PM PDT
by
SandwicheGuy
("It's the butter that makes the CPU run faster...")
To: DUMBGRUNT
That’s a great headline:
Loses engine, what happens next is RIVETING!”
To: DUMBGRUNT
150 lands at like 35 mph if into a decent headwind.
You could crash the dang thing an walk away bruised.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:27:05 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
To: DUMBGRUNT
What does “MSL” stand for? Some unit of altitude?
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:29:07 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: beethovenfan
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:30:31 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: beethovenfan
Mean sea level - the altitude above the edge between water and land, on average.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:30:55 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
To: lee martell
You can never have enough rivets.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:34:25 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
WOW.....outstanding he kept his cool all the way down.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Very impressive landing.
I wonder how he is going to get his plane out of that field.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:41:38 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I’ve done that many times on flight simulator, I’ll bet it’s scary as hell in real life.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:43:32 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Looks like he ran out of fuel. Both gauges are on E.
To: TChad
Put some fuel in it and take off!
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:48:36 PM PDT
by
bitt
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To: US_MilitaryRules
Put some fuel in it and take off! Really? From the middle of a crop-filled field? What happens if a wheel hits a pothole? Maybe you are right, but it sounds risky.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:55:11 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
To: Blueflag
—”You could crash the dang thing an walk away bruised.”
This is North Carolina, with many hickory trees.
Not some weeping willow.
Hit a hickory tree and it will damn sure be a hard landing.
35MPH ~ 50 Feet per Second. Much faster than it might sound.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:55:41 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Wow! He did a good job landing on that field.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:56:39 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(War Eagle!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Beautiful dead stick landing in a grass field. Perfect.
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posted on
07/21/2021 6:59:40 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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