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!”
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He really did a good job.. Kept his head and brought his plane to a smooth landing!!! Outstanding!!
If he was a student pilot, why was he flying solo?
Flying Volkswagen!
A last resort—remove the wings and tow away.
I got to fly a B-58 simulator once, landed in the POL dump.
Excellent dead stick landing. The student is “Cool Hand Luke”
and a fine example.
His instructor deserves a pat on the back.My guess is that instructor is retired military.
Having flown many a C-150’s they are so light ( look up wing-in-ground effect ) that every landing is basically done power off.
Solo is a requirement.
The C-150 has an incredible glide ratio.
Agreed, but for a student solo pilot.....nerve wracking.
Sure it was easy, but he was trained to be cool.
The best take away: “ I am going to set her down in a corn field” which he over shot by a few hundred yards into a pasture.
ya... I was sitting on the edge of my seat!!
My instructor told me that a C-150 is so stable that if the engine quits at night and all you did was slow down to 60 KIAS, leveled the wings and did nothing else but shut your eyes and pray that you had a 90% chance of survival.
Power lines, water bodies. residences with aviation fuel burn..., your instructor is not retired military.
He flew F-4s in Vietnam.
I was thinking more of hitting rough terrain, ie surface, not going into trees.
But yeah, hit a hickory tree trunk or major limb, that’d stop you right there.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. If you can re-use the equipment, it’s a great landing. ;-)
My FIL and I used to dink around in his Aeronca Champ, and go for the shortest landing rolls we could produce.
He won. Always. He also used to fly a Maule Rocket STOL for the Louisiana Forest service.
Landed on runway 16 into a SW 10-15 kt breeze, hot Louisiana afternoon, serious ground effect. He SAID he got it down to 38 KIAS floating in the ground effect before it kinda plopped onto the runway, … and rolled what we estimated to be less than 30 feet +/-
So I am guessing maybe 20 mph on the runway when he touched down, max.
Well good for him. But what pilot wouold say just decrease speed for glide and let it land where it wants? LOL.
Must have been a thud pilot.
As a pilot we train for this kind of event but to do so as a low time pilot?
This guy did a great job.
Grass runways should be no big deal to him now. Way back when, my CFI was big on grass/turf runways for students. We had one in the area, and when it was dry, we used it at least once during every lesson. I had a 172, and when I found out the Cub guys at my local airport were taking off and landing on the grass next to the asphalt, I also started using it when I was low on fuel and not carrying any weight. It kinda pissed them off because they considered it to be their own private runway LOL!
If the plane is still aloft, it's moving fast enough that if it hits a large obstacle, the pilot can easily be hurt.
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