Originally Posted by
WideScreen
While not perfect, this does not sound bad at all.
In a minute, one easily descends through a 1000 ft cloud layer, with the spiral dive development at the end.
Maybe, next time, you can give it some variations:
- What happens, when minimal wings-level corrections are made, just based on counteracting the airplane turning shown on the gyro compass ?
- What happens, when with full flaps ?
Appoligies to all, as I am temporally coming out of retirement on this.
You have the right idea, right attitude and could be the right stuff.
There is a lot of left hand spirals, in examples given.Reduce the power some what. As an increased power, the more the twisted slipstream from the propeller S/E.will strike the port vertical surfaces. Not to mention engine torque. Hence when power is applied right rudder is needed to maintain balance and vice versa. On all American built piston engines.
Yes in Vmc, experiment with flap etc. The ldea of a little power is to try and keep the engine warm. Full idle power power would even be better. Unfortunately you may not have much power when you need it again. Clearing the engine at say every 1000 feet will upset the equilibrium. Don't attempt it.
Remember you are going to pick up a lot of carb ice in cloud. It's a trade off.
The reason for reduced speed is this. If the cloud your desperate situate dictates you descend through, is on the deck, you would hopefully be under control when ground contact was made. The slower the better. This gives person in this desperate situation some chance of survival. That is reason I threw in the EFATO scenario, on a previous post. Land ahead!!
The two who perished in the accident to which this thread is based, had no chance, in the situation into which confronted them.
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