Pilotcast: CFIcast #010 - Teaching off-airport landings - 2007.09.27 - Certified Flight Instructor Aviation Podcast

CFIcast #010 - Teaching off-airport landings - 2007.09.27 - Certified Flight Instructor Aviation Podcast

May 2, 2008

The CFIcast #10 CFI panel:

Your host: Rick Durden, CFI, Aviation lawyer and author of "The Pilot's Lounge" column on AvWeb.com and articles for AOPA Pilot and Aviation Safety, from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Tony Condon, CFI, student and glider pilot & instructor from Ames, Iowa
Ron Levy, CFI, a Professional Instrument Courses - P.I.C 10 day course instructor from Maryland
Joe Zubay, CFI, from Northern Illinois who has been instructing since the 1960s.

Topics discussed by CFIcast Certified Flight Instructor panel:

Teaching flight students about making off-airport landings.
Tony: Every glider landing is off-airport
- Considerations when selecting a field for landing
- The crop? Beans vs. Corn vs. Wheat
- Land near a road or the house.
Should you land on a road?
How to spot obstructions
Can you spot telephone poles?
Power lines
Trees
Tony on landing considerations for glider pilots
- Plan your approach to clear the obstructions
- Glider pilots will choose to land at an airport rather than fly over dense wooded areas.
- Gliders will never land on a road.
What spot in a field is the best to aim for?
How about a river?
Rick as a former crop duster...how to spot power lines
How low can you be and change landing fields?
What if you see power lines?
DON'T STALL THE AIRPLANE
Who owns the airplane once you light off?
Doing an intentional ground loop
The precautionary landing
Don't make a power-off choice when you have power
How to land in a field
Use flaps or not?
Fly a tight pattern
Richard Bach's "A Gift of Wings" story "The School for Perfection"

Recorded Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 00:50:04 - 22.9MB

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