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jgalban@hotmail.com wrote:

["where would I land if the engine died now?" game]
> The only drawback to this game is that there is a small percentage of > the time when you are not within gliding range of anything suitable 
> (parts of Central Idaho and Western Montana come to mind;-)).

Heh.  Shoot many instrument approaches, John?  I would say a large
percentage of the time while shooting instrument approaches at
urban airports, there isn't anything particularly suitable within
gliding range.  Houses, highways, and trees.

Ditto on approach to very busy airports; assigned altitudes and
vectors (or the flight path one has to choose to mesh with the
local traffic) often seem to take one out of reach of the runway
with no great alternatives.

Variation on this game: while under the hood on approach, try 
asking your safety pilot or CFII "where would we land if the 
engine died right now?" 

One of the features I like about my current CFII, who has 45+
years and 11,000+ hrs of personal flying and flight instruction 
logged, is that he has a prompt answer.  If there aren't any
particularly good options, at least he knows where we're at.
If we're right over a small grass strip, he knows that too.
Comforting--relatively speaking.

Snowbird


