 CFI oral intel
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:30:12 -0500, Michael Ash <mike@mikeash.com>
wrote:
>In rec.aviation.student Gezellig <nokonihi@> wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 May 2008 01:20:04 -0500, Michael Ash wrote:
>>
>>> Joking aside, if your straps were loose enough that you could slump
>>> forward, that *would* affect your CG which would in turn affect your
>>> trimmed airspeed.
>>>
>>> There's another issue that I just thought of that I don't think anyone has
>>> mentioned yet, though. Won't you get into a graveyard (bad terminology for
>>> this scenario, as you're already dead) spiral? After all, if you could
>>> stay straight and level just by taking your hands off the controls you
>>> wouldn't need to fear IMC with no gyroscopic instruments. So it seems that
>>> if you start high enough, the correct answer to this question would be
>>> whatever the terminal velocity of your fuselage is without its wings. Am I
>>> off base here?
>>
>> You fly until gassless, stall, nose down, then descend too rapidly,
>> striking the ground with the wings ripped off. Works for me.
>
>You don't stall, because when the engine quits the airplane will start to
>descend, maintaining approximately the original airspeed.
Unless the autopilot is engaged..............
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