engine failure
Hi All,
The above has been some interesting reading, so I thought I'd add my pint of petrol to the fire.
Been flying for many many years and I always practice "forced landings". So.
I would be bimbling around, see a nice field, and on with the carb heat, throttle back, go thru the necessary motions and line up with said field and think "ok I'll get into there" and then continue with my flight. So far so good.
Then, one day it happened, engine stops. Plane sinks like a brick, no big convenient fields, managed to land ok no harm to plane , crew(me) or passenger
(but I'd aged ten years) Conclusion,nice big fields are never around when you need them, so, practice practice practice and work on your skills of side-slipping.