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PPL | Lesson #14 | 07-09-2016 | Practice Forced Landings #2 - Field Selection

This lesson we were doing Practice Forced Landings (PFLs) for the second time, although this time we were selecting a suitable field rather than aiming back to the airfield. A quick reminder of the brief: 1) Trim for best glide distance 70-75kts 2) Assess Height & Wind Direction 3) Select Field / Plan Circuit (All the S’s – Size, Shape, Surface, Slope, Surroundings) 4) Restart Checks (Fuel, Mags, Primer, Throttle, Mixture, Carb Heat, Fuel Pump) 5) Radio Mayday Call (Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, Call Sign, Type of Emergency, Location, # on Board, Action) 6) Shut Down (Fuel, Mags, Throttle, Mixture, Carb Heat, Fuel Pump, Electrics, Open Door Latches) At the start of this lesson, my instructor demonstrated a short field take off, which goes something like this: 25 degrees of flap Hold brakes and full power 55 kts positive rotation This would be used for shorter runways or where there is an obstruction to clear near the end of the runway. I do like being thrown these little nuggets in the middle of lessons, it helps to keep things interesting  Anyway, back to what we’re here for - Practice Forced Landings :). On my first PFL, I happened to notice something that looked like a runway, which as it happens was! Well, a disused one anyway known as Finmere. Being my first PFL with field selection, I found trying to juggle speed control, flying the plane, trying to remember where the wind was coming from and understanding what that meant in terms of which direction I should be in whilst also trying to remember everything else on the PFL checklist quite a challenge! After a couple more PFLs I started to feel more comfortable with the workload involved. This is something I need to etch into my brain so that if such an unfortunate event ever does occur, I am able to deal with it calmly with a greater chance of getting back to earth safely. On my final PFL, we practiced the scenario where you have a partial engine failure. If you are able to maintain altitude then generally you would try to get back to an airfield. If not then you would follow the procedure above. On the way home, it was the perfect opportunity to practice a couple of standard overhead re-joins. Because we were already dead side, we could fly straight over the far end of the runway at 1000ft and turn left onto downwind. However, my brain decided we’d try and line up for 27R rather than 09L since I was confused by which side of the airfield we were. I think what caused this is that when I revised standard overhead re-joins, the examples given joined from the live side. I now realise that if you are joining dead side, you can simply cross the upwind end of the runway at 1000ft and join downwind. This is opposed to crossing the downwind end of the runway at 2000ft and descending dead side. I realised my mistake at 34:25! Highlights 04:00 – First Short Field take off 11:38 – PFL #1 14:20 – Final Approach #1 16:00 – SUNSHINE! 17:40 – PFL #2 18:45 – Final Approach #2 21:15 – PFL #3 22:10 – Final Approach #3 27:35 – PFL #4 (Reduced Power) 30:38 – Final Approach #4 32:52 – Re-join #1 34:25 – Mistake Realised! 41:30 – Re-join #1 48:40 – First Grass Landing My next lesson is booked for Thursday 15th September where hopefully it will be my first Local Area Solo! I’m filming using a GoPro Hero4 with suction mount and a special adaptor to capture the headset and ATC audio. If anyone would like any more info on the set up – just drop me a comment below! Thanks for reading and watching. All comments are welcome. If you’d like to see more please like and subscribe ✈