Emergency Approach and Landing

OBJECTIVE
  • To develop the pilot’s accuracy, judgment, planning, technique, and confidence when little or no power is available in an emergency approach and landing. 

ELEMENTS
  • Prompt establishment of the best glide airspeed and the recommended configuration 
  • How to select a suitable emergency landing area 
  • Planning and execution of approach to the selected landing area 
  • Use of emergency checklist 
  • Importance of attempting to determine reason for the malfunction 
  • Importance of dividing attention between flying the approach and accomplishing emergency checklist 
  • Procedures that can be used to compensate for undershooting or overshooting selected emergency landing area 


COMMON ERRORS
  • Improper airspeed control 
  • Poor judgment in the selection of an emergency landing area 
  • Failure to estimate the approximate wind speed and direction 
  • Failure to fly the most suitable pattern for existing situation 
  • Failure to accomplish the emergency checklist 
  • Undershooting or overshooting selected emergency landing area 
  • Trying to “save” the airplane

 
THINGS TO REMEMBER
  • The instructor shall NOT simulate a power failure by placing the fuel selector to the “off” position or by placing the mixture control in the “idle-cutoff” position. No simulated emergency approach shall be continued below 500 feet AGL, unless over an area where a safe landing can be accomplished in compliance with 14 CFR section 91.119 
  • BRS activation versus off-airport landing discussion. 
  • Aircraft is expendable; occupants are not. 


STUDY
  • “Airplane Flying Handbook” Ch. 8 & 16 
  • “Aeronautical Information Manual” Ch. 6 
  • AOPA NALL Report 
  • POH/AFM 
  • NTSB Report LAX97FA123