jesse
Touchdown! Greaser!
At my home airport. After running the numbers of my takeoff distance, climbout speed, and climb rate. There is no way I can possibly do a 180 turn back to the runway if I lose the engine on takeoff. It doesn't matter what altitude I try it at there is no way I'm going to make it back to the runway (3200 ft runway) Give me a 5000 ft runway and it wouldn't be an issue. My climb out distance is longer than my glide distance back. Of course with a strong headwind this would be different. But that's too many variables to even consider it.
After figuring this all out I tried it in Flight Sim and touched down pretty much about where I predicited I would.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAQgXd8uwq0
Satalite image of airport:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=crystal,+mn&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=45.061882,-93.351903&spn=0.021431,0.054245&t=k&om=1
Video of what you see at night:
http://www.jesseangell.com/downloads/crystal.wmv
So. Based on what I've calculated and that video. If I lose the engine on takeoff in the day I'll have a chance at going for a road or maybe that lake. If I lose an engine on takeoff at night. I'm dead.
How much thought have you put towards engine failures on takeoff?
After figuring this all out I tried it in Flight Sim and touched down pretty much about where I predicited I would.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAQgXd8uwq0
Satalite image of airport:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=crystal,+mn&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=45.061882,-93.351903&spn=0.021431,0.054245&t=k&om=1
Video of what you see at night:
http://www.jesseangell.com/downloads/crystal.wmv
So. Based on what I've calculated and that video. If I lose the engine on takeoff in the day I'll have a chance at going for a road or maybe that lake. If I lose an engine on takeoff at night. I'm dead.
How much thought have you put towards engine failures on takeoff?
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