Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:34 am
#1858240
Another thing I've read about but never tried, is flying with the throttle wide open, and the mixture very lean - so far lean of peak that there's no danger of melting the cylinder heads because there's so little fuel burning.
It's not on my list of things to try out, but I guess controlling power with mixture is at least possible.
I still think one should simply be sufficiently current with glide approaches for it not to be difficult to glide from the overhead. Or from early downwind or even crosswind if there's that much speed on - just pull the mixture at an appropriate place. Ok you'll have to slow down but would it really be that hard?
Shame on anyone that can't reliably glide to the runway from abeam the downwind numbers in something that doesn't glide like a brick.
It's not on my list of things to try out, but I guess controlling power with mixture is at least possible.
I still think one should simply be sufficiently current with glide approaches for it not to be difficult to glide from the overhead. Or from early downwind or even crosswind if there's that much speed on - just pull the mixture at an appropriate place. Ok you'll have to slow down but would it really be that hard?
Shame on anyone that can't reliably glide to the runway from abeam the downwind numbers in something that doesn't glide like a brick.