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Old 14th January 2012 | 08:09
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Genghis the Engineer
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I sort of agree Mark.

PFLs / glide approaches to an airfield have training value in practicing judging the glide and going through the procedures, but they are nowhere near as busy as trying to position for a field, the identity of which you didn't know when the throttle was pulled, on uncertain terrain, and with numerous obstructions to take into account.

Similarly the post above by our American friend n5296s; who thinks that EFATO is about "just land straight ahead". Well maybe in Kansas where it's all huge flat fields, or on a huge war-surplus runway with an extra mile in front of you after take-off. But, at most European GA airfields, or quite a few in places like Alaska or Florida, where at very low heights you have to pick a field in front of you, convert a climb very quickly to a glide, finely judge your positioning, and set up for a landing in that one just-about-big-enough field 29.5 degrees off the runway centreline without hitting the trees, drystone walls, or power lines that inevitably surround it. All in not very many seconds. That can be really quite demanding.

The turnback (which the Americans call the impossible turn) is of course one way of dealing with that, if you're practiced enough, if you're high enough, and if conditions are in your favour. But it's still an EFATO.

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