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If you lost power, the glide ratio is that of a chrome crowbar! Needs a builtin parachute! but a problem there is, a parachute isn't much help at 100 to 200 feet, (dead zone)! I want something with wings! :encouragement:
 

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If you lost power, the glide ratio is that of a chrome crowbar! Needs a builtin parachute! but a problem there is, a parachute isn't much help at 100 to 200 feet, (dead zone)! I want something with wings! :encouragement:

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Glide ratio of a BRICK! And a zero-zero seat wouldn't do much good either. It'd be "an equal and opposite reaction".
 
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“Some” built in safety.... there are eight motors. If one fails the software reconfigures for stable flight.
A couple of years ago WHILE I HAD AN FAA EXAMINER in the back seat for my biannual flight review I had to release at 210 feet due to an emergency with the tow plane.
While towing me up the tow plane lost an engine mount :scared:
We both landed safely and the examiner took me back up for my review flight.
As a side note: The examiner passed me but noted that I should have released earlier. Geez, at 200 feet there’s not much to work with!
 
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Elliot said:
Geez, at 200 feet there’s not much to work with!


Oft referred to as "high pucker territory"!

Examiner shoulda passed ya based on the fact that you got him on the floor uninjured! :thumbsup:

 
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Oft referred to as "high pucker territory"!

Examiner shoulda passed ya based on the fact that you got him on the floor uninjured! :thumbsup:

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The examiner was a “her”... I just said thank you :rolleye:
 
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Looks like an Indy or F1 car with rotors for wheels. :smile:
 

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The Stig flies!!!

(On a safety note, I’m surprise they flew in what seems to be a rather constricted area – versus out in the middle of a large field.)
 
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Elliot - where did you fly out of?
On that particular day I had flown out of a small glierport in PA.
When I lived in NY, I used to fly out of Teterboro. I would often fly up to a glider port in Wurtsboro, NY.
I did make one nerve-racking landing at Danbury.... thread the needle through the mountains.
 

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I only flew once - out of Wurtsboro, NY, with an ex-carrier pilot and former test pilot friend. I learned about adverse yaw that day. The Archer felt like a sports car when I flew back to Bridgeport.
 

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Never gave this much thought, but when I had my commercial check ride in a glider, which was given by a 777 pilot, on the way back he told me to land on the grass next to the paved runway. No big deal until half way on final I noticed a tractor in the grass mowing, I shot back over the asphalt and landed as if it was supposed to be that way. He never touched the controls, but he never said a word until we stopped on a taxiway. He got out, walked back to the hanger and when I got there he had my signed ticket, shook my hand, said thank you and walked to his car! I figured he was ok with it! :highly_amused:
 
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