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Old 6th Nov 2021, 10:39
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ShyTorque

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I doubt that many instructors are very experienced at downwind, real engine out landings. Seems to me that she did the job very adequately, even if it wasn’t a “text book” approach to a point 1/3rd of the way up the runway. The site was surrounded by tall trees so there possibly was no option other than to make the landing downwind.

I recall my fixed wing CPL flight test (over 25 years ago, with Dai Heather-Hayes). During the PFL, being far more used to helicopter glide angles, I arrived over the runway with a lot of extra height, but managed to lose it using an S turn and side slipping and made a decent landing. I was a bit embarrassed because I was very aware, but in the debrief Dai simply said that I had arrived “in a very advantageous way”.
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