a quiz about fire

[Guest ozzie]

The only instruction i have had for this scenario was in the Twin Otter. Rapid decent low speed, power flight idle, reduce speed to near stall, deploy full flap, let nose drop through. On decent determine type of fire and area of fire. Follow flight manual for each cause. In capitals it added

 

PUT AIRCRAFT ON GROUND FIRST OPPORTUNITY.

 

 

[planedriver]

Take up the brace position and kiss your ar*e goodbye, depending on what lottery ticket you purchased.

 

If got lucky, buy another ticket.

 

 

[Kununurra]

Take up the brace position and kiss your ar*e goodbye, depending on what lottery ticket you purchased.If got lucky, buy another ticket.

Why buy another ticket ? You just used up all of your luck by surviving the incident

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Having read all of the responses I still don't know whether an aircraft descends quicker in a managed stall or spin or a dive at VNE. The conclusion seems to be that it depends on the aircraft, try it and see. I would have expected a general result would hold true.

 

 

[SDQDI]

Having read all of the responses I still don't know whether an aircraft descends quicker in a managed stall or spin or a dive at VNE. The conclusion seems to be that it depends on the aircraft, try it and see. I would have expected a general result would hold true.

I guess there will be differences between types, I would think a spin would be a fair rate of descent but as practicing that isn't an option I went out yesterday and tried a few different things.

For my aircraft the best rate of descent I got was from a no flaps no power vne (actually I didn't get to vne I thought it prudent to stay a few knots under) "dive" the trouble with that is if that isn't enough airspeed to extinguish the fire it could dramatically speed the burn. So maybe the full flaps sideslip would be a safer option even though the descent rate is slower.

 

The stall descent (for the hornet) was very benign and was actually one of the slowest descent rates I got. As I mentioned earlier the spin could be effective but I'm not going to try it.

 

 

[facthunter]

A fair estimate of spinning ROD would be between 4 and 6,000 fpm and no extra loads on the airframe. The actual airspeed would be slightly above stall. You would have to proficient in the technique, or it's just academic and you have to allow a safe height to commence recovery, which includes a pull out from a fairly steep dive, so you are still coming down fairly fast. Nev