Does anyone ever use "The Overhead Approach"?
I belive thats what its called. I was reading an artical in Aviation Safety Magazine that was stressing the importance of practicing the overhead approach regularly. They said it would help keep profficient in emergency landings, and possibly someday save your life. I had never heard of the overhead approach prior to this article, so i looked into it afterwards. What i found was shocking, i couldn't belive this artical was printed in a safety magazine! the whole maneuver looks extremely dangerous and to me, a stall would be almost inevetible if something was to distract the pilot or go wrong.
Does anyone practice these approaches? are they even in use today? are they legal at all airports? should i be practicing them? My flight instructor has never really mentioned it to me...Besides, usually when i ask him why we don't do a maneuver somone else does, he has a fairly good reason for it.
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