X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:08:17 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [66.109.229.7] (HELO relay-2.smtp1.dejazzd.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 949630 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 19 May 2005 07:08:45 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.109.229.7; envelope-from=ed.mccauley@bltinc.com Received: from zd7000 ([66.216.162.160]) by relay-2.smtp1.dejazzd.com with SMTP id <20050519110751.DZM6078.relay-2.smtp1.dejazzd.com@zd7000> for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 07:07:51 -0400 X-Original-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 07:07:38 -0400 From: Ed McCauley Subject: re: [LML] Re: Emergency Landings X-Original-To: LML X-Original-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Bottom Line Technologies Inc. X-Mailer: GoldMine [6.00.30503] Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Barry: You're right. And a good topic to continue upon however, my point was to loose significant altitude (say 5000 feet) in a = controlled and predictable manor after arriving above a suitable landing site. Clearly there are MANY ways of loosing 5000 I = just picked this one because it kept me, at best glide, pretty close over head. Ed McCauley >> On May 13, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Ed McCauley wrote: >> > I even had the altitude lost per standard rate turn at best glide=20 >> > memorized so I could cognizantly bleed off any extra if I was really=20 >> > high (the goal). >> Someone on this list surely knows better than I, so please speak up,=20 >> but I do believe that a standard rate turn will result in a greater=20 >> loss of altitude per degree of turn than a steeper bank turn. For=20 >> example, in my Yak or CJ-6, the most effective bank angle for a power=20 >> out turn back is 45 degrees of bank.... >> Anyone? >> Barry >> -- >> For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net/lists/lml/