Emergency Descent To Landing (Practice Only)

[Shepherd]

I decided to do a practice "emergency descent" .
I wish I had the GoPro hooked up to the comm. The instructor in the Cherokee was priceless as I went past.
Nothing I can type in here, unfortunately.

 

[steingar]

Reminds me of a little game I used to play in the Cherokee. I'd place myself several thousand feet over a runway and pull the power. The rule was I had to land full flaps in a full stall within the first fifteen hundred feet of the runway. If I didn't I'd have to go up and do it again.

I should really start doing that in the Mooney. Really teaches you how to manage energy.

 

[wilkersk]

That's a normal power off approach for me. In the land infinite Cessnas and "noise abatement procedures" I have to keep some power on till short final, or I won't make the runway.

 

[RoscoeT]

The instructor in the Cherokee was priceless as I went past.

Did he yell slow the sumbitch down it's a Cub!

 

[Shepherd]

That's a normal power off approach for me. In the land infinite Cessnas and "noise abatement procedures" I have to keep some power on till short final, or I won't make the runway.

Yes, but I'm going almost as fast as the plane will fly all the way to the ground.
Noise abatement rules, according to a study I read in a science journal not too log ago, serve no useful purpose, and put pilots at risk.
But you can't tell that to politicians or rich home owners.

 

[Shepherd]

Did he yell slow the sumbitch down it's a Cub!

Ummm, let's just say it was MUCH more colorful than a man of the cloth should repeat.
I did admonish him for language and taking the Lord's name in vain, which drew a huge laugh from someone on the frequency.

 

[DanWilkins]

Why go fast? Slip that cub sideways and you’ll get her down safely and much quicker than the video shows.