rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL) (02/19/85)
ath control with spoilers only. Amazing how
we learned to spot-land those things.
Anyway, I always TRY to make my approaches in the Cessna the
same way. Tight pattern, power on idle, full flaps (a judgement
depending on wind direction and gusting). If the engine fails
(as it did for me once at Princeton when I forgot carb heat),
the approach is similar to a sailplane (though a little steeper :-).
I say TRY, because there are occasions when I CAN'T, and I'm
sure you've all had similar experiences. My most recent was
at Santa Monica, where six aircraft were ahead of me in the
pattern and the controller put me on final when I was almost
knitting patterns in the skyscrapers several miles from the
threshold. At least I remembered carb heat, though at Santa
Monica I could probably have got away with it. (Though the
books do say...). I didn't like it.
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Bob Langridge (UUCP: [...]!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl)
Computer Graphics Laboratory (ARPA: rl@ucbvax
926 Medical Sciences or
University of California langridge@sumex-aim)
San Francisco
CA 94143 (Phone: +1 415 666 2630)lmiller@ucla-cs.UUCP (02/23/85)
Santa Monica's a piece of cake--try number 30 to land at Van Nuys! The pattern extends 8 miles north, to some mountains that are above pattern altitude. Then they simply tell you the pattern is full--go somewhere else! It's like bumper cars on weekends out there. L. Miller