Student Drop-Out Rates...why?

In the
case of a manual transmission car, so long as the engine is still
actually turning, so will the power steering pump.

And manual transmission cars are what, 10% of the US fleet?

I actually knew a pilot of a single engine airplane (a much-modifed
Swift) who had never made a power-off landing in his airplane, and
wasn't even sure it could be done. He was literally banking on the
engine (a Continental IO-360). It didn't help that he had (legally -
it is a long-standing field approval) covered up the slots in the wings
for speed, so the plane offered very little stall warning.

His engine crapped out on him while he was taking a relative for a
ride. He was about 50 ft above a rice field when he inadvertently
stalled the airplane and pancaked in. Killed himself and his
passenger.

Michael

On 2005-08-26, Michael wrote:
In the
case of a manual transmission car, so long as the engine is still
actually turning, so will the power steering pump.

And manual transmission cars are what, 10% of the US fleet?

Still, if your engine quits at 60 mph you're likely to be going in a
straight line anyway, so it's not going to be such a big deal. And as I
said, the brakes will still get servo assistance for at least one or two
applications. Both still work - I've had engines quit on automatic
transmission cars and still been able to steer and brake (and this was
in a large Dodge pickup, not some little econobox). I'm hardly the
world's strongest guy.

The pull-over factor was still there.

It wasn't for the pilot of the Swift.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

It wasn't for the pilot of the Swift.

Yeah, it was. He just didn't. That stall at 50 ft was right over a
rice field. If he had kept his nose down a little longer, he would
have walked away. If you squander those two brake applications,
well...

Michael

On 2005-08-29, Michael wrote:
It wasn't for the pilot of the Swift.

Yeah, it was. He just didn't. That stall at 50 ft was right over a
rice field. If he had kept his nose down a little longer, he would
have walked away. If you squander those two brake applications,
well...

....well, the brakes still work to max effort - you just have to push
harder. Since I've owned one or two barely road legal wrecks, I have
first hand experience :-)

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"