Eddie Foy
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You used up another one of your lives Eddie.
Yikes! Been practicing some dead-sticks and turn-backs lately. You've reinforced the decision to do so.
Good job!
What is a good power setting to simulate a seized engine other than actually stopping the prop?
Over the years different people have told me different power settings for the simulation. None of them in my view matched the real thing. With your nice long grass strip, just do what you did with your Cub. Go up high, pull the mixture, find the best glide speed for your situation leaving enough excess to make a comfortable flair and just do it. You can always use the starter if you start feeling uncomfortable....Next time I fly I am going to put my 180 above the 6300 ft of grass at X58 and dead stick it in. What is a good power setting to simulate a seized engine other than actually stopping the prop?
I used to do it all the time in a J-3 and a C-172 with my father. One time we caught a thermal with the the J-3 and climbed 700 ft with the prop stopped. We then returned for our usual dead-stick landing.Or do like Mark Murphy does, and just stop the prop. Seems unnerving until you do it a few times. There is an element of risk. Personally I probably wouldn’t do it alone at this point.
Another thing Eddie, While the prop is windmilling change the pitch from full low pitch to full high pitch and notice the difference in rate of descent. Then compare that to the prop being stopped altogether. You may need to almost stall the plane to get slow enough to stop the prop.
Somebody picked that rib bone clean.View attachment 44453
Twin landed one day at the airport the engine seized up right over the threshold that Rod was laying on top of the case the rest of the rods not much better
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How about something like this on a spread sheet. You could calculate the distance over ground.Pete,
Give me your input on a test profile. I will take a second pilot to record data. Hopefully the same one I was flying with in the incident.
Just a point of view but why is it called a "dead stick"? The stick is the only thing that is working!
I'ts crude still, needs some fine tuning,https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11w0IMw2hgRDl153FTgJNTMEKxJwWXxGzYn0h5w6hE2Q/edit?usp=sharing