PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - EFATO
Thread: EFATO
View Single Post
Old 18th Jan 2012, 00:07
  #57 (permalink)  
englishal

 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: 75N 16E
Age: 54
Posts: 4,729
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
It'll be different for different situations though so I don't see much value in practicing it. For noise abatement we try to turn ASAP once in the air...certainly below 500', and not far from the runway end. The result is that before 3-500' you have already turned 90 degrees ...but are heading away from the airfield . This could make it easier or harder to get back...Easier because you can turn less than 180 degrees and you are aiming at the airfield, but to line up you need to make another turn wasting more energy.

At these alts I'd either land ahead in one of the fields (depending on whether I have a head or tailwind now), or accept a landing anywhere on the airfield even if it is off runway.
englishal is offline