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MikeD · May 31st, 2004, 09:52

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I would have picked a better route taking into consideration weather and terrain.

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This is a good point to discuss. I'm interested in hearing some more thoughts on this. Should a flight be canceled or re-routed because of SE performance vs. terrain? What if you had been in a single-engine airplane? Just some food for discussion.

Personally, I've flown such a flight over mountainous terrain in the weather. A friend and I took a plane up to Aspen, CO in IMC several months back, and had we actually had an engine failure, we would have drifted down enough to where terrain would have been a definite factor.

That said, I don't think this flight was at all unsafe. Plenty of GA aircraft (even normally-aspirated) fly out of this airport on a daily basis. If it was unsafe for these aircraft to fly due to the risk of engine failure, you'd only see G-Vs and Citation Xs operating out of there. Anyways, just my opinion on things.

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IMO, it's a myth about this whole "unsafe to fly single-engine aircraft in IFR (IMC)." IF that were true, then we shouldn't fly single-engine planes at night either. Hell, some light multi's shouldn't be flown for the same reasons due to their inadequate S/E performance, if one wants to follow that logic.

There's a risk in any kind of flying.

May 31st, 2004, 09:52	#19
MikeD Administrator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Pinal Airpark Posts: 6,897	Re: Emergency Exercise [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I would have picked a better route taking into consideration weather and terrain. [/ QUOTE ] This is a good point to discuss. I'm interested in hearing some more thoughts on this. Should a flight be canceled or re-routed because of SE performance vs. terrain? What if you had been in a single-engine airplane? Just some food for discussion. Personally, I've flown such a flight over mountainous terrain in the weather. A friend and I took a plane up to Aspen, CO in IMC several months back, and had we actually had an engine failure, we would have drifted down enough to where terrain would have been a definite factor. That said, I don't think this flight was at all unsafe. Plenty of GA aircraft (even normally-aspirated) fly out of this airport on a daily basis. If it was unsafe for these aircraft to fly due to the risk of engine failure, you'd only see G-Vs and Citation Xs operating out of there. Anyways, just my opinion on things. [/ QUOTE ] IMO, it's a myth about this whole "unsafe to fly single-engine aircraft in IFR (IMC)." IF that were true, then we shouldn't fly single-engine planes at night either. Hell, some light multi's shouldn't be flown for the same reasons due to their inadequate S/E performance, if one wants to follow that logic. There's a risk in any kind of flying.