On Feb 27, 5:57 pm, Michael Ash wrote:
In rec.aviation.student george wrote:

Emergency landings eh
It's obvious that the glider pilots are away flying.

Alas I'm not, but I've been keeping quiet. I know that there's a
significant difference between landing a 20:1, 30:1, or 40:1 glider with
no engine and landing a 7:1 winged brick whose engine has suddenly decided
to stop after a long period of appearing to work fine. Landing a glider
doesn't worry me at all but I would not be happy taking the controls of a
Cessna after the fan stopped cooling the pilot. For one thing, no
spoilers for glideslope control!


Well you might look at the Shuttle returning from space as a rather
large glider