RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group St. Augustine forced landing

I would say, what was the purpose of that post folks?

Think about it as the list continues on this football quarterback thread.

->-----Original Message-----
->Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group St. Augustine
->forced landing

-snip->

->I'd say this is a good learning opportunity.
->Get all those ATPs and Instructors together in one room.
->Get them to agree on the plan.
->The situation:
->That particular airport....
->That particular plane....
->With it's engine known to have just been replaced....
->The challenge:
->To test fly it in such a way, that if the engine fails
->within the first 20 minutes, we can glide to a safe landing.
->
->By the time they are finished they will have a -good- plan.
->And I'm sure if the ATP guy who crashed in St Augustine
->could have been in on this plan, he would have done okay.
->
->
->Mike
->
->PS: I don't have to critize that poor pilot
-> and don't believe I did.
-> As Jim likes to say, the event was self-critiquing.

I agree with Mike. It was a bad day for him that's for sure.

Gary Orpe

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