| 2005/05/10 Playing chicken with a field | |
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2005-05-10 13:23
by Merlin
in Flying
Current Music: Markus Schulz - Global DJ Broadcast - 2004-11-15
Current Mood: Good Just when I was finally getting used to doing intentional stalls without raising my heart beat too much, the next thing my instructors have found to toy with me is to cut power during flight and say "well, you have no more engine, I guess you gotta land somewhere now". This is in itself an interesting excercise which shows that from a reasonable altitude you actually have a fair amount of gliding time before you reach the ground (my instructor actually lost the engine and flew a plane more than 5 miles from stanford/woodside all the way down to palo alto airport, and barely made it to the runway purely on gliding from 3000 feet, impressive...) Anyway, the second time around, we glided to less than 50 feet altitude from a field before he put the power back on. That was an interesting game of chicken... No, I was alert, but I didn't freak out :) |