Originally Posted by Sirecks

My most "puckered" approach came in the first half of an attempt to land.


We start thinking about options. Fly out towards the water .... track the loc inbound and trust the radar altimeter and try to land .... get ready to ditch by having everyone get their chutes on .... this is where this approach became my scariest one. Looking around with no landing field around and running out of gas and time. Seriously talking to our crew about bailing out made it pretty real. Then we think about Dover AFB, on the coast in DE. It isn't that far and maybe being near the water it has a better cloud cover. Also, it's by the water so if we have to ditch, we can do it in the Delaware Bay there.




That's my story.