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From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: turning back
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 13:07:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 13:07:43 1984
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Here is another report on the "experiment."  While with my student in a C152,
we set up 500 AGL (2100 MSL) over a "runway" (a road on top of a hill) and
initiated a climb out.  When we reached 2600 MSL (500 feet above the "runway")
we pulled the power, established 60 knots, and initiated a right 180 at about
30 degrees of bank.  We lost 200 feet doing the 180 and another 200 feet
maneuvering back to the "center line."  We passed over the departure end of
the "runway" at 2200MSL; we could have made it back.  My conclusion?  If I
lose it a 500 AGL I'm going to land straight ahead.  Ironically, while better
climb performance and greater headwind will help you make it back to the runway,
it will also contribute to your death when you overshoot the downwind landing!
There are too many variables and too little time to cope with them.

		Bruce Lowerre, CFI