X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from outbound-mail-356.bluehost.com ([66.147.249.250] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.13) with SMTP id 3580602 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:00:49 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.147.249.250; envelope-from=jslade@canardaviation.com Received: (qmail 17181 invoked by uid 0); 14 Apr 2009 15:54:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host296.hostmonster.com) (66.147.240.96) by outboundproxy7.bluehost.com.bluehost.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2009 15:54:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=canardaviation.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=cZzFWystNi6bz9N1xwsaFDTxvAu08WFXr5Y4lH/nMRDfKbbwaJ/OW92qbj8R+wN8E9zfiQ/A5bcZ4DzXEeeJlOnF9sIS5a6k3dk9jF+qDlH0ErLYa+ys3tjBt8Vq3kHH; Received: from adsl-75-27-144-161.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net ([75.27.144.161] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by host296.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ltl3V-0000nC-1E for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:00:13 -0600 Message-ID: <49E4B307.2000805@canardaviation.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:00:07 -0400 From: John Slade User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Windows/20071210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: forced landings References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {3339:host296.hostmonster.com:instanu1:canardaviation.com} {sentby:smtp auth 75.27.144.161 authed with jslade+canardaviation.com} Gary Casey wrote: >There seems to be a tendency to keep going in spite of inflight problems. I don't believe that's true. In case that was partially in response to my "aircraft flown to home base" after the turbo blew, understand that this was during flight testing. My standard test routine was to fly over a triangle of airports 35 miles from point to point. This triangle was chosen such that from 11,000 feet I could glide to an airport from the midpoint of any one side. As it happens, the turbo blew at 11,500', 5 miles from the least attractive airport in terms of facilities, and 30 miles from home base. At reduced power and always within glide distance of the field below, I was able to maintain altitude to the midpoint and was then assured of a safe return to home base. John