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

Enjoy listening and learning as you eavesdrop on the Hangar Flying conversation with Certified Flight Instructors!

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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