gliding back to your departure airport

George.. where do you get all these neat quotes for your sig line

BT

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Harold wrote:

If a small single engine plane can out-climb its engine-out glide ratio
from
take off through the top of climb point, wouldn't it follow that it can
always theoretically make it back to the departure airport in the event
of
engine failure ?

Sure, except that you have to get turned around first. There is always
some
altitude below which you will not be able to return to the airport. This
tends
to be between 600 and 900' AGL in a typical powered aircraft.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too
much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.

BTIZ wrote:

George.. where do you get all these neat quotes for your sig line

This particular one comes from "To War in a Stringbag", by Commander Lamb, RN.
IIRC, he was relating an incident early in the war in which he was scud-running
in Scotland.

When I run into something in my reading that I like, I change my sig file for
a while. When I get tired of it, I'll change it to one of my favorites, such
as this one.

George Patterson
To a pilot, altitude is like money - it is possible that having too much
could prove embarassing, but having too little is always fatal.