This is "dead stick"...
http://www.workflow.as/jogrini/video/ava.wmv
Hilsen Jojo www.grini.no
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 06:27:36 -0600 From: "Pat McCleave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RCSE" <soaring@airage.com> Subject: Re: [RCSE] Dead stick landings Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Chuck and all,
Several years ago, my OFB Dave Beardsley and I went out to fly some gliders.
He just happened to have one of his power planes in the car as well and
decided to get it out and let me fly it a couple of times. I had been
flying gliders for 20+ years at that time so did not figure the plane would
be that hard to fly. He fired it up, took off and handed my the controls.
I am flying around having a good time and talking to Dave when I realize he
is not answering me anymore. I look over and Dave is back at the car
putting together his SuperV. I hollered at Dave and said how do you land
this thing? He hollered back if you can't land you can't fly and kept on
putting together his plane. I flew a little while longer, shooting a couple
trial approaches and then decided to heck with it I would just fly the plane
until the engine stopped and land it like a glider. A couple of minutes
later the engine died and so I just brought back around made my normal
glider approach and landed with it rolling up within about 3 feet from my
feet. My first take-off was a whole another story.
See Ya,
Pat
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