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I can't really judge distance
accurately in terms of miles anyway, so the bottom line is that I probably
won't even be thinking about all this stuff. Rather, I'll
be "eyeballing" my landing site and sizing up my glide by visual
reference the same way we judge our approach to a runway
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Tim,
Thanks for
that.
I was afraid there was
something seriously wrong with my not thinking about using all the numbers the
others have been discussing. My head just does not work that way. I would pick
an off field landing site immediately and go for it using the usual power
off landing sight picture (it changes due to your referenced wind, turb, etc
factors) which I have practiced many times at the airport.
Here in the
Sierras of Northern California there is no time to pull out the old calculator
and use the info being discussed. Of
course, when we depart the runway, we are already twice as high as some of these
guys cruise.
Unlike my C-172, my Coupe seems to have only one thing on her mind when I pull
the throttle....DOWN!!!
Bob
1946 415E w/O-200
N3047H "HONEY"
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