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Old 12th January 2002 | 02:40
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Genghis the Engineer
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Yes, the best write up I've seen on it was by a chap called John Stewart-Smith in Flight Safety Bulletin, about a year ago. Personally I'm a big fan of the constant aspect method and practice it regularly.

The basic principle is that you mentally establish your "runway" in a field, and pick a point about 1/3 into it. Then you fly a constant turn (even if it's more than 360°) keeping that point at the same slant angle continuously below the horizon. Flown correctly it allows you to correct for drift naturally, and in my experience gives a very accurate touchdown engine-off.

I'm not even going to try and explain it in more detail than that, it needs diagrams. Either you need to go and look up FSB, or maybe somebody here knows a website that explains it well?

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