lstorm2003
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Guys,
I was wondering how you all feel about this... Let me set the scene for you...
You are making a single engine approach to land at an airport with an elevation of 50ft MSL. Density altitude is about 900. Your aircraft is at about 250 pounds under max gross weight and the failed engine is feathered.
Unfourtunatly the runway is only 2500 feet with no over-run and there is a body of water when the runway ends. The gear is down, the flaps are extended, you are at about 100 feet when you cross the runway threshold, you think you have the runway made, but then suddenly the wind shears from a negligible headwind to a 15 knot tailwind. Your aircraft initially descends but now you are using runway fast, since your ground speed has increased! You are now at about 40 feet AGL, 85 knots IAS, with a little less than 1/4 of the available runway behind you.
Do you attempt to force the aircraft onto the ground with this tailwind? Or do you attempt a single engine go-around?
Comments?
I was wondering how you all feel about this... Let me set the scene for you...
You are making a single engine approach to land at an airport with an elevation of 50ft MSL. Density altitude is about 900. Your aircraft is at about 250 pounds under max gross weight and the failed engine is feathered.
Unfourtunatly the runway is only 2500 feet with no over-run and there is a body of water when the runway ends. The gear is down, the flaps are extended, you are at about 100 feet when you cross the runway threshold, you think you have the runway made, but then suddenly the wind shears from a negligible headwind to a 15 knot tailwind. Your aircraft initially descends but now you are using runway fast, since your ground speed has increased! You are now at about 40 feet AGL, 85 knots IAS, with a little less than 1/4 of the available runway behind you.
Do you attempt to force the aircraft onto the ground with this tailwind? Or do you attempt a single engine go-around?
Comments?