Originally Posted by
kiwi chick
Slim Slag
Spinny thing stopped spinning about 200 ft AGL during go round. EFATO practice.
That would grab your attention, no choice but to prepare to land ahead, and not much time to decide where.
I cannot find a reference to my 'about five seconds' which would stand up in the court of PPrune. I'm sure I read it somewhere on a simulator study done on how to properly conduct a turn back. Anyway, I did find that the authorities require a two seconds reaction time for airline pilots to add to their calculations when working out runway speeds. So as there are two of them, and they are trained to concentrate on these things, I cannot see a PPL doing better - on average.
Though I do think pushing the stick hard forward is probably instinctive when things go wrong as it is drummed into you with stalls practice. Whether that is the correct thing to do at 200ft AGL when the engine stops? Will have to think about that....