Single Engine Go Around
10-14-2011, 08:55 AM
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Single Engine Go Around
Hey Guys,
On a single engine approach in a Piper Seminole. If you had to do a go around and full flaps and gear were down. Airplane was at max gross weight on a standard day. What would you retract first and why?
Best Regards,
-Ken
On a single engine approach in a Piper Seminole. If you had to do a go around and full flaps and gear were down. Airplane was at max gross weight on a standard day. What would you retract first and why?
Best Regards,
-Ken
10-14-2011, 09:36 AM
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You would want to retract full flaps first because the drag is greater for them than the gear being down. Approximate drag factors for full flaps is -275 fpm, while gear down is onle -250 fpm (from the piper Seminole POH).
10-14-2011, 09:57 AM
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There is no such thing as a single engine go around in a low-powered light twin because it is equal to a death sentence. If you were a great pilot, ready for the clean up and everything, you are talking a few hundred feet per minute climb rate at best. If you are going 100 knots, that's more than 1.5 miles per minute for 5 minutes, about 8 miles before you get back to safe altitude. You shouldn't turn either because that robs climb rate. No sane instructor teaches S-E go arounds in a low-powered twin. Not even for practice, because we do not want anyone to establish bad habits.
10-14-2011, 11:18 AM
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In jets we do SE approaches and landings with partial flaps. I don't know why we didn't do that in light twins but it would be a good idea. Why not do the approach and landing with 5 or 10 degrees instead of full flaps?
10-14-2011, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Laxrox43
... I used to do/teach "flaps, gear, flaps, flaps."
Does a Seminole have manual flaps? If so there's obviously no load on the electrical system for the flaps...I'd yank a notch and pull the gear up back to back.
10-14-2011, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by skypimp92
Hey Guys,
On a single engine approach in a Piper Seminole. If you had to do a go around and full flaps and gear were down. Airplane was at max gross weight on a standard day. What would you retract first and why?
Best Regards,
-Ken
On a single engine approach in a Piper Seminole. If you had to do a go around and full flaps and gear were down. Airplane was at max gross weight on a standard day. What would you retract first and why?
Best Regards,
-Ken
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