Originally Posted by
EvilGN
to the above post....I have no GA flight experience, but isn't dead sticking a plane with a known good engine a really bad idea? doesn't that kinda go along with the citation pilot doing aerobatic manuevers? "Exericising" a plane sounds like a test pilots job.
And here is the Monday morning quarterback question. What if you had mis- judged the flight profile and landed 50 ft short of the runway? I may be totally missing something here and if I am I apologize for calling you out like this
To intentionally deadstick an airplane is considered bad. If anything goes wrong there would simply be no excuse whatsoever.
The performance characteristics of a light ASEL at idle are very, very similar to a windmilling prop...the only really noticeable difference would be the noise (or lack thereof). The pyschological aspect doesn't really count because the student KNOWS the instructor could (probably) restart the engine.
To get the full benefit of this training manuever, the instructor would have to throw the key out the window too...
