Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!bl From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: turning back Message-ID: <2562@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 13:07:43 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsb.2562 Posted: Thu Oct 11 13:07:43 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 03:20:17 EDT Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 13 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