Posted on 07/21/2021 6:12:29 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Right. My instructor would just reach over, pull the throttle back to idle and say, “Pick out and show me the place where you’re going to land”. Another interesting time was when he reached in the back, pulled out the hood, put it over my head and talked me in to a landing by me able to see the instruments only.
I said survive and not walk away without a scratch.
He did a good landing, but his instructor failed to teach him to put fuel in the tanks.
Yeah but where’s the fun in that? Rocket assisted take off is the way to go. 😁
For something that big, I’d want several engines so I’d be less likely to test the glide ratio.
— require all pilots to first obtain their glider rating”
Not a pilot, but recall about the famous Gimli Glider.
Thankfully the Pilot in Command was also a glider pilot!
I was reading this on the train as it arrived at my stop, had to finish on the platform, and reread it when I was home.
A GREAT write-up from the WSJ 1984.
http://www.eaa67.org/Archives/1985/Airliner%20out%20of%20fuel%20-%20WSJ%2012-12-1984.pdf
And the fatal problem with the pitot tube, Rio-Paris...
—”flap your arms outside the windows.”
But, I’ve always heard, if you jump up just prior to impact you will be OK??
Yes, the timing may be tricky.
I used to work for a guy that had a single and small twin salvage place. In situations like this we fueled up or repaired the plane if he could fly it out. He would have put enough fuel to get it out and we would walk the path to find a safe line. Otherwise pull the wings and put it on a trailer.
He was one of those guys that, if it could be done, he could do it.
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