I was reading the engine out advice and granted,,,practice help's ,,but we have
to keep in mind,,the windmilling prop of an idling engine is going to decrease
your glide ratio,,so for the stopped prop,,,you might overshoot your intended
touchdown by quite a bit. In flying ultralight's and exp.
I did a flight test in my KR2S a few weeks ago to check the facts on
windmilling props and glide ratio. Two tests from 10,000' (one with engine
on, one with it off) proved to me that there is no appreciable difference in
glide rate between engine idling and engine off. Engine off in a VW or
Co
I know my VW stopped as well after quitting,,because of high compression and
short prop,,,same as ultralight's,,two cycle engine's with reduction drive,,and
low speed stop's the prop,,,I was implying practicing dead stick landing's with
pulling throttle,,therefore, the prop is still spinning. J
Mark:
That glide ratio informationis valuable to me and gixes me some idea as to what
I can expect. It seems to me if my memory serves me right that the glide ratio
is lower than the 172 or the early 150/160 hp 177s(Cardinals) and very much a
"Brick" compared to the 150's. The 182s & up of cours
The site at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide_ratio says the glide ratio of
a Cessna 150 is about 7:1. It took about 15 seconds to type that into
Google to find two sources that corroborate that.
Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
emai
yssen
Cairns, Australia
k...@bigpond.com
http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2/kr2.htm
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From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf
Of Mark Langford
Sent: Monday, 22 May 2006 5:02 AM
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Subject: Re: KR> engine outs
I did a flight test
In my prior email I had the the following note in which I said 400' and
that should have been 4000':
NOTE: Any manoeuvres near the ground, especially tight turns, require good
airspeed. What I did was a classic way to spin in as pilots will see the
ground rushing up at them in the steep turn and
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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: KR> engine o
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