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Hey everyone, Jason Schappert here of MzeroA.com, holding short
runway 23, at the Xray-60 airport, and I want to demonstrate
the impossible turn, I'm going to do a normal take off
I'm going to climb up to 500 feet, I'm going to
simulate and fail the engine, I'm going to give it 2-3 seconds for the
hey what just happened factor, and then I'm going to "attempt" a
turn back to the runway, it's going to be a left hand turn, I'm going to do roughly 45
degrees of bank, I don't want to exceed that, I don't want to get crazy,
and I have two options, I can come back to 5-23, and I also have the grass
18-36 you've seen me do some operations on, that's an option,
as well. We're going to simulate, how realistic this is, I have full fuel
it's just myself on board here, well within weight & balance tolerances,
it's a warmish Florida day, above standard for sure,
and we're going to kind of see how the airplane performs, let's go ahead and do it here together.
And Williston traffic skyhawk 23MZ is departing runway 23
staying in the pattern, Williston traffic, alright
and I'll obviously I'll recover and discontinue if anything becomes too unsafe, double checking
everything one last time before takeoff, using every bit of runway
just like I would in a real scenario here, everything is set,
looking good, 23 a nice long runway,
as well, and let's go ahead and roll
just like we normally would. Smoothly applying full power, heels hitting the floor, toes at the bottom
of the pedals, airspeed confirmed alive, maintaining the centerline, verify engine gauges
all green, engine gauges all green, coming
on up, here goes my rotation speed, a 1,000 feet of runway gone, took off in
about in 900-1,000 feet and climbing on up, I'm going to do
it at 500 feet MSL, MSL AGL is almost one in the same,
here in Florida, just climbing on out, a nice Vy climb,
as you can see, just like I normally would, not exaggerating anything knowing that I have
an impending engine failure, just trying to make it as realistic as possible.
here, pass through 160 feet, climbinng
on out, I also have 14-32 going across, my point is
I have a lot of options here at the airport, but it's called the
impossible turn for a reason here, let's go ahead and figure it out, I'm at
400 feet, I'm tracking centerline right on out you can see,
coming up 480, 500 smoothly bringing the power back to idle,
I'm going to do carb heat too, just because I'm a neurotic aircraft owner, one, two
three, and let's attempt a turn back here, I got get down to Vg I'm a little bit slow already,
here, I'm 45 degrees of bank,
and I got to slow here down to Vg, here she is, slowing down to Vg,
I'm about 700, 800 feet per minute, coming around,
I've got the grass strip out here, I don't actually see the
grass strip, I know where it should be, but there is no chance of making it back to that. Williston traffic, 23MZ,
simulated engine failure, coming back to 23 at Williston,
I've got 14-32 that I've just lost underneath of me here, I'm passing through
300 feet, I'm trying to make a turn back to 23,
I've got some super tall trees here, there's no chance I'm going to
make that, I'm going to go ahead and discontinue, full power, carb heat, going around.
And 23 MZ's going around, at Williston,
Alright, and I'm going to fly that out on the upwind here,
absolutely no chance from 500 feet, full fuel,
just Jason on board, a relatively calm day, I was going to make that. I was
someone was going to be picking me out of a tree no doubt in that case,
could I have made the turn more aggressive, sure, but I just lost my
primary means of thrust, I'm descending 700 feet
800 feet per minute, the last thing I want to do, what does a turn do to lift?
Right, it decreases lift almost exponentially, I don't
want to just crank this thing around, this is why I teach,
below 1,000 feet, I'm going straight ahead.
Realisticly, I can go about 30 degrees to my left, 30 degrees to my right, you have a 60 degree window,
in front of me I have all these amazing fields, these farmer
fields where I would have ended up going in that case, it's called the impossible turn
for a reason, don't attempt it. Okay? I
had 14-32, I had 18-36 my grass runway, I was so low,
I couldn't even see the grass runway because the trees were obscuring it here, obviously, every
airport is very different, but I'm telling you, we don't want to attempt the
impossible turn, listen, I can't wait to read your comments below,
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