Originally Posted by
EXDAC
But why put yourself in that position? Who can make a good case for dragged in approaches that have no safe options if the fan stops? Even when forced to make a "two counties" circuit because of other (usually student) traffic I maintain traffic pattern altitude until I have an engine fail glide to the runway.
As a humble light aircraft pilot, I totally agree that a glide approach is ideal. Yet I notice that heavy aircraft routinely drag in, often for many miles, and we're told that anything nearer to a glide approach is inconceivable. Of course that's completely different, isn't it: those have two or more fans, and two fans
never stop at the same time – except when they do, notoriously the 777 whose pilot only just made it over the fence (and a very busy road, and an ILS antenna) onto the grass at Heathrow in 2018.