“More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.” – Wilbur Wright
It’s noon and I’m about to fly – to do simulated power failures. Yikes!
I’ve done my homework. Roger provided me with the A,B,C’s of what I need to know (no joking, he did provide me with the following A,B,C’s – what a cool way to remember) and went through them thoroughly:
Airspeed: fly the airplane, pitch for glide GOKIAS 103 likes, 65 knots
Best place to land: fly to the field; keep your place to land in sight
Checklist: from left to right quickly, thoroughly.
Declare: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. Know the setting: 121.5, know the squawk setting
Exit: seat belts tight, door ajar, fuel valve off (mixture to idle cutoff; key off, mags off)
Pull yoke all the way off/back.
Checklist items:
- Fuel valve (toward me) air, ignition
- Mixture rich (unless it’s hot, then you’ll have to lean it some)
- Throttle
- Carburetor heat (pull out). Fresh air for engine. alternate source of air. Get on this quickly.
- Oil Pressure, oil temperature
- Fuel gauges. Check for
- fuel starvation: fuel not getting to the engine
- fuel exhaustion: yep, you just ran out of fuel
- Magnetos: go both, left, right. See what works best
- Primer: should be locked.
Forever and a day…