Whole new meaning nowadays

The sad thing is, most of the critics could not land their aircraft 100% dead stick. I can not, so I sit back and admire a job well done.

@@indridcold8433 There seem to be a lot of narcissists going out of their way to say something -ve to fluff themselves up in their own minds

@@yarpos The simulators they employ are likely nothing more than a personal computer programme. They have likely never even seen an actual simulator.

I don't think ego is a factor. It's that practicing a crash landing is absurd. You wouldn't go out and practice crashing your car into a tree. If you need to do something like this, you probsbly shouldn't be using that vehicle or form of transportation.

@@Gkitchens1 It's more like practicing parking, but if you fail to park you die.

The thing about engine outs is you dont get to choose when they happen, so practicing at lower altitudes is the right thing to do.

That is technically a crash, not really a landing.

But he isn't flying a glider, he flying a plane with no trust, there alot of different

Gliders have a glide factor of 40:1 or even more while this plane has something below 10:1. This means that, without thrust, you are going to hit the ground at least four times harder with this. It's absolutely not comparable.

apples and oranges, this person is practicing for the unexpected not repeatedly doing the usual

40:1, I wish! Yes there are hot a/c out there at +40:1 but never got a chance to fly them. Worst glider I flew for L/D was 25:1. It was an old, wood and fabric, flying armchair. Any ways I digress. No matter what you fly, A380 or ASH20, it’s all about managing potential energy (height) and kinetic energy (air speed). The more you practice, the better the outcome.

DB Thats-Me how many A380 glide approaches have you done ?😉

I can agree with you that this is pretty dangerous if done improperly. However, it looks like this guy has been practicing this exact maneuver, with this exact bird, at the same field for a while. I'm sure he started off easy and worked his way slowly into a more complex pattern. He absolutely nailed this, so something tells me he's pretty much become one with the plane and that he's fully aware and hyper-alert to what the plane is doing and how it's reacting. Sure this is on the edge, but when it counts he won't be caught unprepared in the worst situations. Most pilots that never practiced with risk don't know how to really feel the airplane, they just read their gauges and do what the book says. And don't get me wrong, the books are great. I'm just saying that practice and personal experience is infinitely more useful than something that you were taught.

Why practice a way that you won't do it in the real world ? Exactly, get to the chosen spot and circle to land. This insures you make your chosen landing location.

@@danblumel because doing this makes the standard procedure a breeze.

Rob Johnson best comment I’ve read made my day.

I give my stick CPR.

I'm 53 years old. I'm 100% dead stick

I'm 48 and I'm dealing with carb ice. Still runs a little bit but rough.

I'm 53 and I need a few pumps, then I'm good to go.

landed well?? I had to climb at 200 fpm on mine at 200' on take off. climbed to 300 agl and turned it back to the runway. no damages..

Doesn't it depend on the air temp? It's not like he's diving down, he's gliding so as he drops in altitude, the temp will go up.

@@MJLeger-yj1ww not really it depends on airflow and what the engine was doing before shot down. What MJ says is a factor with piston skydiving aircraft, where they work hard to altitude and then have to descend quickly. The pilots have to manage engine temp .

@@yarpos Sound like a rotax water cooled engine so not so critical

Excellent

I got asked during tailwheel endorsement if I had some time in them I didn’t record. Nope, all gliders. He did an engine out on downwind and I cut base short at the numbers. The Schweitzer 2-33 we flew were forgiving but bricks!

Been many years since pilot-in-command, but I always liked to come in for a landing as high as possible, & side-slip down to the runway...obviously have to watch for lower aircraft. I would have felt very foolish to do a 400' final, have engine out, crash short of runway.

Yep, cut power on downwind.I made this a habit too! A very good practice. An engine failure happened to me on floats over the only lake around. It was a very small lake with no room for error. Because of all the previous power off landings, it was uneventful.

It is lawnmower blades. Very common that's why a lot of field crop dusters also get paid as bushhogs

nemo227 It is... Taught to pilots. Why the fuck would an engine out landing be taught to a glider pilot?

For a moment I thought he was going for the highway...simple traffic pattern into home field

I've been thinking the same as I read through the comments. A truly dead stick - ie no response to the controls, would be XXX times more scary.

You can actually land a helicopter with an engine failure. I remember RAF test pilots practicing it on a TV show years ago. But its not easy.

It is a water cooled Rotax....not an issue

That's a good point - in southern England it's not easy to find a large, clear, mown field.

Gosh I guess insurance companies could never sell glider insurance huh Terry?

You shittin' me, after a smooth ass job like that they should give him reduced rates!

Intentionally turning off a perfectly good operating engine in a single-engine airplane (read: not glider, nor motor-glider) isn’t exactly the brightest idea. I can see why this person is doing it, and they handle it well, but there are an awful lot of eggs in one basket here.

@@dustyrideretc You do have a good point :) On the other hand, I have a rough time with this sorta thing in my PC flight simulator, never mind the real deal.

Devil's Offspring it’s actually hard on the PC flight simulator. You get less cues from the PC sim.