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Invisible Trap Kills Glider Pilot – How To Avoid Microbursts

Chess In the Air

Under normal circumstances Shmulik would have had sufficient altitude to delay the landing by several minutes: his glider’s minimum descent rate in still air was just 100 fpm. Even a more typical descent rate of 200 fpm would have allowed Shmulik to hold for about 5-7 minutes before he would have had to proceed with the landing.

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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack

Air Facts

An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect. Optimum” glide was not the issue here, and a visual AOA indicator would have had no value. This descent used the same technique that (would have) had value in many of the NTSB accidents involving engine failure after takeoff.