PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - EFATO
Thread: EFATO
View Single Post
Old 18th Jan 2012, 09:51
  #65 (permalink)  
'India-Mike
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Genghis - in principle yes. Currently at 0 Chipmunks though due to wind damage. The flight mechanics, I think, is probably only 50% of the turn back problem. The rest is operational, environmental and human factors. I've flown perhaps half a dozen turn backs in the last three years either in FI training or club standardization flights with our FIE. Although pretty straightforward to fly success is not determined exclusively by ability or aerodynamics.

But one has to start somewhere