snip It's just that discussions on this topic often include comments
on the 'infallibility' of the system. My post was intended to give a
real world example of why we still need to apply basic gliding
principles to this propulsion type, just like the rest of them.
CJ

Very well put. It is for just the above reason that, though I have a
very reliable engine, I never get out of range of a safe landing field
and, for me, that means an airport.

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Dan, 5J