[KC Jones]

Other things to remember during landing stick controls airspeed and throttle controls rate of desent. If you chop the throttle and you have the runway visually locked in the center of the windscreen. If it starts moving towards the top you are going to be short so start adding a little throttle to extend your glide. If it is moving down you are going to be long. So put the aircraft into a slip to help bleed off altitude. This is a good method when you have no spoilers or airbrakes available. You want to time this so as you round out over the runway you are in a three point atitude and right at the stall speed of the aircraft. Being able to put the aircraft at a precise point on the ground will come in quite handy if you have to dead stick your craft to a safe and survivable landing. Try to always fly a standard pattern with a distinct entry leg ,downwind, crosswind ,final. On the high performance stuff if you are new to this carry a little power during this process until you get the idea of where you need to cut the power to land on a precise point on the runway.

Whoa ! You just described (my yellow highlight) one of the tests I had to pass.

Dead-stick from 5,000 feet !

And he wanted me to put it down between two sets of cross-runway lights.

While I'm here I'll share with you all something I just came across while I was going thru my birthday presents. A page from a magazine.

Yes that's the year I was born.

Bummer. I hope its readable. The image I uploaded to ImageShack was 900x1392. I guess forums scale them down.



ps - I'll get in touch with you buddy