Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
If you believe that gaining 5000’ classes as ‘quite some altitude’ then by all means please consider your pudding to be egged to a satisfactory, but not excessive, level.
If you had started at LL that means 10 miles of gliding until the aircraft will impact the ground. Since we usually plan to eject before we get too low (let’s say about 1-2000’ minimum) that gives about 6 or 7 miles of useful gliding range which equates to approximately 2 minutes of flying time.
Of course if the engine failure happens at a higher altitude you can add the numbers on (although your zoom potential will be lessened and you will be less likely to have been traveling at such a high IAS).
Despite all of this I still know precisely nothing about the circumstances surrounding last weeks crash.
BV
I’m really not sure what your point is. I have flown single engined military jets, albeit before the Hawk was in service. I was simply making the point that FR24 isn’t a reliable flight recorder, for more than one reason.