Originally Posted by
airpolice
I am confused about how you do a wide circuit, but are out of glide range, without thinking at some point, what if.......
Please can someone explain to be the serious concern some people have about not flying the downwind leg out of gliding range of the airfield, when the entire en-route section of the flight has just been performed outside gliding range of any airfield? What do they think the engine knows about being in the circuit that will upset it?