1. Engine Failure on Take Off and the
Impossible Turn
Making the Impossible Turn,
Possible!!
By: Mike Zidziunas

2. Avoiding an Engine Out on Take-Off!
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Use the Aircraft Manufactured Checklist!
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On Throttle Up double check ALL Engine
instruments in the Green!
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Does it sound like it normally does?
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Is the Aircraft accelerating as it usually does?
If All of these Points are Correct
then we can continue the take-off!

3. “ABORTING” The Take-Off
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If the Aircraft has NOT left the ground, it's a simple matter of
maintaining directional control.
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If the Aircraft has left the ground AND is LESS than 100 feet,
“Quick” action is required of the Pilot, (Get The Nose
Down!)
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You are More Than Likely going to Damage The Aircraft! BUT
you will SURVIVE!!!!
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If the Aircraft has NOT reached the minimum safe altitude for
any kind of turn, ( You MUST get the nose down, and Land
Straight A Head even if it means running off the end of the
runway.)

4. The Impossible Turn!
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The Stall/ Spin fear.
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Coordinated turns.
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Energy (Airspeed) management!
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Climbing Power OFF Stall.

5. The Possible Turn!
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How many Feet does it take for you to turn your Aircraft 180
Degrees from a Vy Climb?
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What Is best Glide (L/D)? & What Does it LOOK Like?
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What is the Optimum Bank Angle?
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Practice turns at 20, 30, and 40 Degree Bank Angles AT Best
Glide! (Record Your Results)
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The Most important thing is that we maintain Best Glide!!!
Which Means that the more we increase the bank the
more the nose should drop.
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What speed does your Aircraft fly at when set for Take-Off Trim?

6. Reasons For Turning Back To The
Airport?
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The roughest Spot on the Airport, is Smoother than the smoothest
Spot in the housing development off the end of the runway!
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EMS KNOWS where the Airport is!
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FAR 91.119 (a) Minimum Safe Altitude at which you may land without
undue Hazards to persons or property, on the surface.
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This doesn't mean that we HAVE to make the runway.

7. Don't Save The Airplane!
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Rolling level will HELP arrest the descent.
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Do NOT extend Flaps or Landing Gear, until the
Runway is made.
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Better to belly it in to the grass, than to stall in.