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
Well, I can tell you I had no intent of doing this when I took off. Just the bright idea of a fellow instructor. Things worked out ok and we purposely stayed high but I totally agree that a good engine is best left running. Not something I ever intend to do again unless I have to.