Took off from KPAO, practiced emergencies South of Half Moon Bay, diverted to KSQL, then returned to KPAO.
Did several practice engine-out emergencies, including selection of a landing spot. All were deemed okay except for one where I would have undershot the field and landed on a bit of a berm.
Rehearsed the procedure for an engine-out, which should be 100% second nature without ever having to think about it, and is just purely logical:
- Slow to Vglide
- Select a spot to land
- Turn towards landing spot
- Debug the engine
- Mixture rich?
- Fuel on?
- Mags left? right? both?
- Secure the engine
- Mixture cutoff
- Fuel cutoff
- Mags off
- Guard 121.5, Mayday
- Now STOP messing with crap, concentrate on flying
- Land the plane like you were trained to do and have done a million times
The procedure for electrical failure, which in the Flycatcher kills all the instruments, is also something that must be committed to memory:
- Fly the plane
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