Re: Emergency and Discipline

"Ol Shy & Bashful" <selwaykid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:deb6419c-cb2f-4b33-8428-c5c80b3d12fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you are faced with a full blown emergency such as an engine
failure, what are you going to do?

Let's see. Carb heat and/or switching tanks worked a couple times. Landing straight ahead on the runway worked too. I've never had to make an off-airport landing. (Unlike my little sister who ran out of gas on her student cross country solo - "I told them to fill the tanks, but I guess I forgot to check..." No damage, but she made the local small town paper.)

Had an "important looking" part fall out from behind the panel once. We thought it might be a bushing from the control system so we (my brother and I) made our way to the nearest airport with the absolute minimum of control action - notified the traffic via CTAF, and made a straight in approach. It turned out to be part of a radio mount...

Anyone want to hazard a guess at the major number of engine failure
causes?

1 -Fuel starvation.

2 - Carb Ice.

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