How do I want this flight to end?

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mypatchmonkey@gmailcom said:
How do I want this flight to end? Asking this simple question once the emergency has occurred and BEFORE you've committed to anything is a simple, fast technique to assist you in your emergency gameplan development. If you don't, you may find yourself fumbling through checklists, babbling on your ATC freq and maybe even running yourself out of options.

More than likely, you are going to be acutely aware of what's happening right now--you're on fire, you've lost an engine, you've had a birdstrike, etc. If you don't determine how this flight will successfully end, you will have no plan, and probably even less luck. Do I need a 10-mile straight in? A controllability check? A runway with a certain length and type of approach available? What do the last 5 minutes of this flight need to look like? With practice, you can learn to develop a basic gameplan in a few seconds.

Take care of the big ticket items (don't hit the ground or anything else, keep/get some speed on the aircraft, etc.), develop your gamelplan and THEN tell ATC what you need. That will keep your ATC comm from sounding something like this: "Approach...I have an engine fire...uh...standby..." Figure out the last 5 minutes of your flight and how you're going to get there, key the mike and let ATC know your plan: "SOCAL Approach, Hammer 21 emergency aircraft, engine fire 35 miles northeast of Miramar leaving 13 thousand, direct Julian for the Hi-ILS runway 24, 1 soul on board" I can't guarantee you'll make it, but at least you'll sound good!
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^^^^ re-hash of military UPT "EP tabletop". Cute.:rolleyes:

Protip: Usually people use anecdotes to lead into a relevant discussion topic or question, or have questions about a topic themselves. Randomly typing thoughts in quick succession on multiple threads can get you home-on-jamming shot on this board quicker than a Hawaiian Punch drinking Angle-of-Attack-toy salesman. You're probably too new to get the reference.

Oh, and Welcome to POA. ;)
 
LMAO. This thread is better than a lot of Super Bowl commercials.

Can we get some boobs into the mix now. For eman, of course.
 
If you've got an engine fire, I wouldn't be doing the HI-TACAN. I'd get radar vectors for a PAR 24R and save time. Or, considering NKX is rarely IFR (except AMs) just do a visual straight in or set up for a SFO. Also, I wouldn't rattle off all that information to SOCAL. As busy as they are, odds are they won't copy anything other your callsign and you're an emergency.
 
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And where's the picture of the guy 'punching out'? Ride the silk down & talk about it later.
 
Hank S said:
Says the man in the Big City! Me, I'm just happy that there are two dentists here in town. Actually, they're in the next town over, where I work, a somewhat bigger place than this.
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Not in the big city, I'm south of that city.
 
You're not far from Montgomery are you? A lot of dentists there.
 
You all got a good air show coming up at Maxwell in April. I might have to attend that one.
 
Yea it's been a few years since they've had one. Should be a good un!
 
Hank S said:
Tell me more! It's an hour to Maxwell, and Gunter's about half that. Can I fly in???
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Oh probably not. They've got both the Tbirds and the Patrouille de France at the same show. Looks like it'll be a good one.
 
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:lol:

I think I may have peed a little.
 
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