Originally Posted by
rgburrill
At 400' on landing a two=engine "heavy" is about 30 seconds from touchdown. And most likely still on autoland. So with losing thrust on one side the pilot has 30 seconds to figure out what the problem is, take control of the aircraft which is already yawing and losing altitude, determine where he is with respect to the end of the runway and correct everything and land safely. All the while you are having fun with your little toy.
On a 3 degree Glide Slop and a 1000' touch down past thresh hold the
distance from the runway end would be 7632.454' - 1000' = 6632.5' from
the run way end (Threshold) or 1.256 miles from the runway end at 400'.
Don't forget that the 5 mile radius is figured from the geographical center of
the airport that can be over another mile of two father than the 1.256 miles
from the runway end. i.e. U should allow at least 1.5 miles + the 1.25 to be
certain to below all aircraft at 400'.
This is the other problem flying near air ports with instrument approaches.
Now don't for get on a circle to land after the instrument approach could be
even lower than 600' AGL as far out as 5 miles visibility permuting.
U can see that flying any where with in the 5 mile radius from an air port is
a bad idea especially under IFR conditions when U won't see a plane till it pops out
of the bottom of the clouds.
Last edited by HoundDog; 05-23-2015 at 11:00 AM.