Hangar Flying

Mike
You right, this has been the worst spat of canard accidents I can remember.  

It happens at times. At least two of the canards involved form flying.  Then you had the Rotax powered one go in and now the latest one, but he survived.

If it ain't in the plans, I wouldn't add it. But I would ensure my bird is well inspected and marginal parts replaced.

We have lost several 737s this year. Would you stop flying on those??

Jack

What to you use for "Best Glide Speed" in your long ez?... I am rededicating myself to engine out practice...

I generally used 70 KIAS and the engine turned off at 10,000' AGL over a good size airport. With the prop stopped you pick up 15% less VSI. I did it both at idle and engine off.  Since I am in the middle of freaking Iraq right now. I don't have my data base. Dim memory recalls about 800' FPM or so down.  With the last couple of thousand feet far less VSI. Air is far thicker there.

Note, to kill the motor at that height, you need to kill the mags/electronic ignition.  Then setup for a relight when you need it. In my case, at about 110KIAS the prop started turning. Basically I buried the nose till the prop started moving for a smooth relight at idle. Let the temps build up and slowly throttled up.  My hard deck was 5,000' AGL for a relight.

If my freaking GPS was working, would had gotten the actual distance.

I have a few hours behind me and am a former Navy maintenance check pilot.  If you perform the above, ensure you have all of your ducks in a row lined up. It gets real quiet up there.

Jack

While upside down and waiting he realized that if he had a punch to break the plastic, he could have crawled out himself. Since then, he has carried a punch. So have I in little bag..

I wear a survival vest that is stocked witih goodies, including my trusty knife that will either punch through the canopy or slice it.  It's my old Navy survival vest, that has pouches for my handheld radio and water bottle also.  It weighs in around 10 pounds, IMO pretty cheap insurance if you are forced down in  terrain out in the boondocks.

Jack

Drew,
   What could I expect as far as drive time to get to your airport from pentagon? I don't have a good feel for traffic in the area so I do not know how much time to buffer into my schedule.

Sunday shouldn't be too bad. Hit www.airnav.com  then hit the airports and input "CJR".  Should be able to mapquest the route.

Yeah, weather permitting I can slide in there before 1500. Gives me a chance to check his other wing off.  With any luck that replica Mustang will be up. That puppy has a really noisy motor.

I will probably launch around noon or a tad earlier.  Beats the hell out of driving for sure.

It's been too damn frozen for me to fly.

Jack