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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by guidoism on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:31PM (#21412689)
If I had something like Xavion to help with the approach I would probably choose the dead stick approach but really, how often have any of us ever really dead sticked it? I haven't. We pull the power to idle, but that's not the same as a propeller windmilling. That propeller is a huge brake and we aren't used to it. I for one prefer five nines of survival probability to something much smaller. What are the dead stick survival stats?
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Re:Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability by dsfyu404ed on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:48PM (#21413578)
Anecdotal story:

I know of a skydive place that does or at least used to regularly (like once or twice a week) dead stick it in a C182 because they would fly with the bare minimum of fuel (when you're flying up and down all day even a little extra weight costs a lot of money).

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