Evan,
Have you ever considered joining the UK's Civil Aviation Authority? I've heard it said that that entire organization considers itself a failure every time an airplane leaves the ground.
Somewhat more seriously, I'd like to know how you'd address this scenario:
1) There is a rule in place (by some regulatory authority) that when going around, you must maintain runway heading until (some condition like altitude, airspeed, or clearing the field)
2) There is a rule in place (by physics) that if you try to turn while your airspeed (yes technically AoA but in this context airspeed works) is marginal, the plane can stall and crash.
3) Late in the process of making an approach, when you're just about to touch down, the airplane stalls and one wing drops. You recover from the stall, but the dropped wing has caused you to turn about 80 degrees off runway heading... you are now heading toward some trees at very low airspeed.
So... do you follow rule #1 and try to turn back to runway heading, risking a stall and a crash, or do you follow rule #2 and continue straight toward the trees, carefully trying to gain altitude so you don't hit them?
Have you ever considered joining the UK's Civil Aviation Authority? I've heard it said that that entire organization considers itself a failure every time an airplane leaves the ground.
Somewhat more seriously, I'd like to know how you'd address this scenario:
1) There is a rule in place (by some regulatory authority) that when going around, you must maintain runway heading until (some condition like altitude, airspeed, or clearing the field)
2) There is a rule in place (by physics) that if you try to turn while your airspeed (yes technically AoA but in this context airspeed works) is marginal, the plane can stall and crash.
3) Late in the process of making an approach, when you're just about to touch down, the airplane stalls and one wing drops. You recover from the stall, but the dropped wing has caused you to turn about 80 degrees off runway heading... you are now heading toward some trees at very low airspeed.
So... do you follow rule #1 and try to turn back to runway heading, risking a stall and a crash, or do you follow rule #2 and continue straight toward the trees, carefully trying to gain altitude so you don't hit them?
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