This technique, applied at low level, has successfully killed quite a few pilots. Will you, in the few seconds it takes you to hit the ground, have the presence of mind to CHECK FORWARD on your control column and LOWER your nose towards the ground which is speedily spinning towards you?! I doubt it. Now you don't notice, but you slow down to 51kts, and start turning steeper towards 25° angle of bank, where your stall speed is 52kts! If you get to 25° angle of bank, you WILL stall a wing tip, resulting in a very sudden wing drop and the first stage of a spin.Īt this point you "were" still climbing to circuit altitude, 1000ft agl, now, below this height, you are rapidly spinning to the ground. So say you are climbing at 60kts in a C150, and your flapless stall speed is 48kts. When you turn, you INCREASE your stall speed. Remember, in a climb your speed is already low. If you apply more flap at 300ft, then you will have to lower your nose to maintain speed, AND increase your power to maintain your glide slope.Ī gentle reminder to prevent sudden death Fly an ATTITUDE.ĭo not chase the airspeed. >Power AS REQUIRED for ROD - usually 500ft / minįinal approach, hold a steady glide path. >Flaps 20° HOLD ATTITUDE! until you reach your chosen speed, then (do not allow the nose to drop, see ex 4 - effects of controls) To initiate your descent on the base leg: If you reach circuit altitude while in a climbing turn, lower the nose to fly level, steepen the turn to a medium 30° turn if required, and reduce the power as the speed reaches past the right side of the drag curve.
P Power - SET-CHECK WHITE ARCį Flaps - 30° or as requiredĬlimb out at your best Rate of Climb (ROC) speed.Ĭlimbing turns to be done at 10° to 15° angle of bank. For the time being, the circuit checks you don't understand are "place-markers" for when you graduate to more complex aircraft.ī Brakes - ON/OFF for pressure It is advisable to have this check in your check list arsenal even if you initially train on high wings). These checks are "gear down", "pitch", "fuel pump on/off", (high wing gravity fed training aircraft don't have fuel pumps, but their low wing counterparts do. If the checks for these more complex aircraft are not already entrenched in you, you are very likely to forget them, which could have disastrous and expensive results.
As soon as you have your PPL, you may convert to larger and usually more complex aircraft. Here's why: Training aircraft are by their nature very basic. During your training, you will be learning some checks for items that do not exist in your training aircraft. You are expected to learn these off by heart, unlike your ground checks for which you are expected to use your checklist.Īfter Take-off checks - to be started by 300ft Above Ground Level (AGL) at the latest.ĭownwind checks - abeam the tower (or when you get a word in edge-ways on Downwind).įinals checks - to be started by 300ft AGL latest, before your landing. In the circuit, there are certain checks that are mandatory as well as advisable. So, don't be taken by surprise by a "dead cook" look your destination airfield up in the AIP's Airfields Directory to discover if it has a standard circuit, or boasts something more challenging. Prophetic words, since they were later all killed by the "dead" cook, Segal.
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The big boss baddie in the Steven Segal Movie "Under Siege II", said it so well when his goon told him our hero was dead, but that he hadn't seen the body: "Assumption is the mother of all f*$%-ups!" he said. Richards Bay's circuit, elevation 108ft - circuit height : 1500ft.īefore assuming an airfield you are flying to has a standard circuit pattern and or height, it is best to check. Virginia Airports circuit in Durban North, elevation: 20ft - circuit height : 800ft. Sometimes Circuit heights are published in the AIP's that are different from the standard height, eg. This is true most of the time, but not always! If your airfield elevation is 100ft, then your circuit altitude is 1100ft. This means that if your airfield elevation is 3700 foot, then your circuit altitude is 4700ft. Circuits are, by convention, flown at 1000 feet above ground level.
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