By my reckoning Bloggs, if your machine descends the cabin at 300fpm and assuming an 8000' cabin, you would need to descend 27 minutes prior to landing ( into an SL A/D ), even @ average GS 300, that's still 130 odd miles TOD. ( and I happen to know that your machine doesnt have excess diff to play with )
I would have thought that a wee bit too far away when crzing 28000.