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04-11-2007 | 08:22 AM

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From: toronto, ON, CANADA

RE: HOW LONG WILL A NEXSTAR FLY FOR ON AVERAGE?

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ORIGINAL: BANJOAIRPLANE

Why is everyone so afraid of a deadstick?Start making deadstick landings as part of your ongoing training so they become second nature.You don't have to be afraid of a flame out.

Program them in on the sim or find out which key will kill the motor just keep flying back to the runway.If you have a flame out in real life at the field,don't panic,keep flying.Your plane is not going to just fall out of the sky just because the engine quits.

I agree with you, a flame out is not that big a deal, just point the nose down, pick up a bit of speed and get her into the wind. I will grant you there are times with it is a problem - one of my flying buddies flamed our over some tall trees and could not pick up enough speed to clear them leaving his duraplane about 70 feet up, but other than that, deadstick is no big deal.

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