"Alright lets start our turn to final. Nice, good turn, watch that bank. Okay we overshot a little bit lets just work our way back to centerline nice and easy now. Good job, back on centerline. Okay, we are a little bit high, lower the nose. Still high lower the nose. Keep it coming down, lower the nose a little bit. Watch your airspeed, getting a little slow, no don't pull it back push it forward....push it forward. Okay good back on glide slope, good job.....getting a little high, push it forward, forward, forward. Alright good, start your roundout, nice, hold that flare, hold it off. Good, brakes."
An interesting thing that I've noticed flying with pilots who have zero time or even very little time is their tendency to want to stay up in the air and not aim the airplane at the ground. It actually takes some forcing the student to do it until they get used to pointing the nose of the aircraft at the ground when your only a few hundred feet off the ground.
This got me to thinking, in an emergency such as an engine failure, as trained pilots we try and stay in the air as long as possible. Get to best glide speed and stay up as long as possible trying to exhaust all possible options and restart the engine. Is this a natural human tendency or is it just a little bit of fear the first few times?
next to come...scariest moment?
Friday, February 6, 2009
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