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In a typical airplane, you can only see the ground over the
nose that is 1 mile per 1,000 AGL. Loose an engine, better
long down at a 45 degree angle and select the best you can
see where you are, rather than planning a x-c to an airport
on the horizon.



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| The Cherokee 180 glides only slightly better than a brick
when you lose
| the engine. At best you can realize maybe 1 statue mile
gliding
| distance for each 1000 feet AGL, so at 1500 AGL you can
make a dead
| stick landing to a field about 1.5 miles away. Maybe a
little longer if
| you've got a tailwind of course, and if you don't have to
make any
| turns. Once you start making turns, the Cherokee is so
draggy that
| it'll lose quite a bit of altitude in the turns.
|

Jim Macklin wrote:
In a typical airplane, you can only see the ground over the
nose that is 1 mile per 1,000 AGL. Loose an engine, better
long down at a 45 degree angle and select the best you can
see where you are, rather than planning a x-c to an airport
on the horizon.

Except that using a 45 degree cone rules out a lot of good landing spots
since even 1,000/mile is much shallower than 45 degrees. Ideally, you
see a spot that close, but if not, I'd keep looking a little farther out.

Matt