traffic in the rice lake practice area beach musketeer foxtrot golf romeo romeo
is currently 4 000 feet approximately two miles south of gore's landing
and we'll be conducting a forced approach simulated forced approach
to a farmer's field just on the south side of rice lake from 4000 feet
foxtrot golf romeo romeo hi welcome to the channel
it's a really gorgeous september evening
it's cooling off a little bit it's my type of weather
and just out enjoying the musketeer i thought this would be a great
opportunity to talk about the forced approach
obviously engine failure and flight is something that none of us
would ever want to deal with but you know fortune favors the prepared
so if we're well practiced and rehearsed we're gonna have a much better chance of
conducting one successfully now if you're well disciplined with your
flying in general by that i mean landing on a specific
spot at the airport on the runway and not
just sort of you know touching down somewhere on your
runway you're going to have a much better
chance of successfully conducting the forced approach
you want to know what your best glide speed is and if possible you want to
practice these a few times a year and maybe even get out with a qualified
experienced instructor and get a little bit of assistance with
them the aim of the forced approach is to land the airplane safely
and more simply than that to survive landing the airplane off field so if you
can get it down on the ground and and live that's
mission accomplished there's lots of other things we can do
for the forced approach to aid in search and rescue and
brief passengers and stuff like that but it's all sort of the cherry on the cake
as it were if you get so engrossed in cockpit checks and dealing with
passengers and trying to make radio calls that you
lose track of where you are and what's happening
it it won't matter if you can't make that landing
so it really is an important thing to keep in mind so
engine failure first things establish best glide this airplane at gross weight
it's 90 miles an hour right now we're around the
2000 pound mark so it's 84 miles an hour pick somewhere to land aim and fly the
airplane to that point altitude depending you can then
once you're aiming towards your field make your plan of how you're going to
land then you can make a mayday call sorry
then you can do a cause check you know if you get the engine restarted
obviously the engine the emergency is over
if the engine doesn't restart make a mayday call
brief your passengers secure the engine so let's go ahead and give one a try and
see how it all works out so we're flying along in cruise here i'll pull the
carb heat hot first and i'll gradually bring the power back
here for the simulated engine failure okay so simulated engine failure and i'm
establishing my best glide speed of 84 miles an hour and trimming the nose up
to maintain that i'm going to do an engine warming every
500 feet okay we're taking a look around for a field i've got bush all out in
front of me and a fair bit to the south got a pretty
good field just off my left wing tip here i am guessing it's
probably 2500 feet long a few bales on the outside but the
center section looks really good all right upper winds definitely coming
out of the south i can feel that in the turn here
so i'm going to go ahead and get ready for my
approach so it's a thousand foot elevation here i'm going to do the 360
method with a planned southbound landing so i want double my descent rate which
right now is about uh 700 feet a minute so i want 1400 feet
plus 200
so that's 1600 plus the ground elevation that's a thousand it's 2600
in the direction of landing over the field i missed my first engine warming
i'll go ahead and do that now okay let's do the cause check and then
keeping a good eye on the field so mags both left right cycle if it runs on one
position leave it there i could have a mag problem that's caused
that been there for real and done that fuel pump we'll bring that on carb heat hot
mixture rich fuel maybe we need to change tanks or if we've just changed
tanks perhaps change back if the propeller is wind milling
go ahead and oh sorry if the propeller is not windmilling you can try a restart
with the starter if it's still windmilling and it hasn't started again
you're kind of out of luck so mayday call simulated
mayday mayday mayday foxtrot golf romeo romeo foxtrot golf romeo romeo foxtrot
golf romeo romeo conducting a forced approach due to
engine failure approximately four miles to the southeast of
Gores landing landing in a farmer's field
if you've got your lat long from a gps i don't have anything on right now you
could use that as well coming up on my next 500 foot
warming
we're going to do one more after this so i'm a little on the low side now for my
field i'm 2500 and the fields ahead of me i
wanted 2 600. so i've got my low-key off to the side
there that's what i'm going to kind of aim for
and assuming that i am still going to be descending around
700 feet a minute i want to be over there about 1900 feet so i'm going to
try a real shallow bank here bring us over to that point
i'm feeling a lot of wind pushing me over so got to be careful of
that don't get pushed too far downwind i'm going to have to fight a headwind
coming back so i'm going to keep this turn pretty tight
so i've got altitude to come back to the field okay briefing passengers if i had
them all right guys stay calm it's an engine
failure we've practiced for this it's just a
landing but this time on a field not at an actual airport go ahead and
push your seat all the way aft make sure it's locked
and bring your seat belts secure take off any sunglasses or sharp objects
remove them from you okay and once we
are down we'll exit the aircraft in orderly fashion first aid kit is in the
back fire extinguishers up front here we'll
meet behind the aircraft secure the engine mixture idle cut off
fuel pump off fuel valve off and mags off leave the master now you're
going to want some radio calls all right i'm applying my approach here
so i've 1900 looking for 1600ft on my final key
here's final key so i've made that work really nice
now i'm just paying attention to my field four miles an hour slow i'm gonna
lower the nose a bit just coming in very shallow bank here
because of the wind okay it's good long field definitely
going to make it let's go first notch of flaps go second
notch of flaps
very happy with this approach very happy indeed
that's looking really sharp and as i said the main thing is to get a nice
landing so i'd be more than happy with that so let's go for the overshoot
reduce the first notch
climbing nicely im above 80 miles an hour reduced
to no flaps keep it coordinated all right now if your aircraft has an
elt with a switch you'd want to switch that on
sooner rather than later that's always a really great idea
um other aircraft are going to have a couple of neat features
or characteristics i should say that will need a bit of attention as well so
if this was bonanza for example glide speed is 105
knots with the gear up flaps up we don't want to be landing 105 knots
that's for sure so somewhere in that approach we got to slow down
us 84 landing with full flaps is 79 miles an hour it's only a five mile an
hour change in the glide speed teaching students in the bonanza
gear down flaps full if you come over the threshold at 105 knots with a
10 knot headwind you need like 1500 feet of
room just for the hold off after you flare
before you touch down that's how long it takes to get rid of the energy from 105
knots so something to consider there constant
speed propellers uh on a single engine application they're
going to use oil pressure to bring the prop to course
if the airplane is still engine is still wind milling
and there's oil pressure you can pull the prop control to full course
and that will drastically reduce your drag which will increase
your glide range and everything else so that could be a really great feature as
well i hope you found that helpful that was
definitely good practice for me and i was very happy with how that
turned out there
get out there get practiced make sure you know your emergency drills your
briefs make sure you know the air speeds that
you're looking for and get these things practiced because
again hopefully you're never ever going to have to use it
but if you know what you're doing the outcome is likely to be much better
so stay safe happy tailwinds like if you enjoyed the
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