107 12 Steps for Handling an Engine Failure in Flight + General Aviation News
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🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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107 12 Steps for Handling an Engine Failure in Flight + GA News
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107 Max talks about the statistics for engine failures in flight and the 12 step procedure you should follow if you have an engine failure. The procedures described are generic, and may be differ for your aircraft, so check your POH.
#1 Don’t panic, wind the clock.
#2 Turn toward an airport or landing site at the first sign of engine trouble.
#3 Fly best glide speed
#4 Clean up the airplane
#5 Memorize the first few steps of the checklist
#6 Troubleshoot the three things your engine needs to operate: fuel, spark, and air
#7 Communicate and squawk 7700
#8 Use crew resource management and delegate tasks to others on board
#9 Shut down everything related to fuel and electricity
#10 Have a strategy for managing your descent
#11 Open the doors while you’re still in the air
#12 Use any automation tools that you have available to you
Mentioned in the Show
ANT EP #68 - Impossible Turn after Takeoff Engine Failure
Robert Wright Article - The Real Risks of Engine Failure
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| 0:00.0 | And the run we still about three miles ahead, 12th attack and three miles. |
| 0:05.0 | The current RVR is 2,000, and 2.1,800, rollout 1,800. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm sorry, say that again, you're out of fuel? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm sorry, say that again, you're out of fuel? |
| 0:17.0 | Still got about two and a half miles ago. |
| 0:20.0 | I take that's a little out to do the alert. |
| 0:22.6 | I'll come to two nine to six years. |
| 0:24.6 | You're going left to course now. |
| 0:26.6 | Nine to six hotel you definitely left the course at this time. |
| 0:29.6 | You have two hundred feet. |
| 0:31.6 | You see any whites or any roads down there. |
| 0:34.6 | Showing you two hundred feet now. |
| 0:36.6 | Show you at 200 feet now. |
| 0:39.1 | Show you, 100 feet now. |
| 0:42.2 | Dynastic Hotel, radar contact law. |
| 0:44.2 | Dynastic Hotel. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, a weekly show with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Max Ruskat. |
| 0:57.4 | You just heard audio between JFK Tower and a Cessna 172 that ran out of gas while flying an approach in very low IFR conditions. |
| 1:05.5 | The pilot and passenger survived, and we'll talk more about that story in the news. |
| 1:09.1 | Our thanks to live ATC.net for that audio. |
| 1:11.9 | By the way, if you have thought about maybe someday buying a Cirrus SRSR 20, SR-20, |
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