av8orboy
LAS-FIDOE-MCY-SMOKY
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- Mar 14, 2004
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GVJeff said:With all due respect, I believe you will be able to better answer this when you have 2,000+ hours of multi-engine time. Perhaps you simply do not know any different right now, and that's fine. If you're flying overwater, no matter what your glide distance is if you're far out over the ocean you're going to land in the water. And remember, NO WIND the glide distance is 78 nm. A 100 knot headwind is not unheard of at 27,000 feet. Your 78 nm number just went down the toilet. You can say you'd make a 180 degree turn and take advantage of the tailwind. Fine, but what will that turn do to your glide distance? Think of the loss of lift as you make the 180.
GVJeff said:All I am saying here is remember one engine is one engine. You may have 35,000 hours on the PT-6 at your company but one engine fails (and as you are aware, it HAS happened in the PC-12 series aircraft), and it could get ugly...
Jeff
With all due respect...I don't do AR's. I especially don’t do them now that I have been thru Survival Systems training. Makes you think. I'll trade the one min. turn for a 100kt. tailwind. My logic is the if the engine goes, I'll deal with it. If the wing falls off, I'll deal with it. There are critical time were if something goes wrong we are all screwed, one engein, eight engines, whatever. I believe in the airframe and engine. Our maintenance department and our pilots are on the ball. We understand the risk.
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