in article , Scott at
wrote on 2003/11/04 16:43:

If a tug waves u off at 200 ft, he's going to land straight ahead. an
airplane cant make a safe turn back until about 800 feet if I recall
correctly. and that's still cutting it close.

Read

http://web.usna.navy.mil/~dfr/flying/possible.html

and

http://web.usna.navy.mil/~dfr/flying/aiaa1col.pdf

to get up to date on the question of ASEL turnback performance.

800 feet is probably far too conservative.



Jack