Jess Grizzel: It really, really depends upon whether he has one or two engines. For an F/A-18, the aircraft that I maintained, it's simply not that big a deal. The plane tends to yaw (nose wants to point towards the failed side) with only one engine but other than this it doesn't present any real problems. An F-16 on the other hand actually has the flight characteristics of a rock. For example, in an F-16 if you lose your engine and can't get it re-lit you essentialy have about 1 mile across the ground for every 1000 ft in the air you are. That's it. If you have to make any turns or anything else this "glide" distance will drop dramatically. So if you are 20 miles from the runway, you need to have your flameout at no less than 20000 ft in order to make it to the end of the runway in a straight line distance. Flying an F-16 with no engine is further complicated by the fact that the engine turns a generator that provides electricity for all the instruments and even! the flight control surfaces since it's a fly-by-wire aircraft. A bigger concern with your only engine not working is how long your emergency power generator will give you power to maintain control of the aircraft. I think I remember this time being about 15 minutes tops in an F-16....Show more
Cole Desher: Naval Air Training Operational Procedures (NATOPS) is the bible in Naval Aviation for each aircraft type. NATOPS is violated at the pilot's own peril. It states that dead-stick landings in jet aircraft are prohibited. The proper procedure is to perform a controlled ejection. I was an instructor flying trainers and there was a time when an instructor dead-sticked his bird into Columbus AFB. His defense was that he was perfectly positioned to perform a Precautionary Emergency Landing ( a maneuver all instructors demonstrate to students) and he landed without damaging the plane. The only thing that saved his wings was the fact that he and the student walked away u! nscathed. I never heard or read about anyone else who tried it! . If anything goes wrong there may not be sufficient time or space to punch out without needlessly endangering people on the ground. There is no margin for error....Show more
Thomas Riner: The F-16 glides pretty good, see a very old story about the guy that had a flame out over downtown Chicago and put in Great Lakes NAS.You can always try a relight.
Patrick Bitsui: Any plane with wings can be glided. So yes, it can be glided. The pilot just has to find the nearest airport and hope he can make it there before he/she has run out of time.
Elbert Donatelli: Pitch for best glide. Choose a place to land. Attempt to restart.
Phillip Modafferi: I'm no Pilot but I know all aircrafts can glide down in some sort of way, except for Helicopters, and when you glide down in the air, considering you are in a fighter aircraft, I guess you would be over 30,000 feet above sea level. So you would go lower to maybe 15,000 feet, make sure your aircraft is ready to land a! t a nearby airport or airstrip, radio in to there, requesting an emergency landing, make sure the engines are turned off before you land in case they turn on during the landing and mess it up. Land on the runway, brake, flaps and deploy the parachute to slow down the aircraft. Then you get out and President Barack Obama comes and gives you a gold medal!...Show more
Omar Phipps: all aircraft have some ability to be glided down as far as i know
Cortez Badolato: typical ejections concern your physique to a spike of approximately a hundred and fifty-500 G's. it extremely is a hundred and fifty-500 situations what you always weigh. that doesn't sense good. it extremely is purely for some milliseconds in spite of the undeniable fact that it nonetheless does harm. while you're flying rapid, at a wierd place interior the cockpit or purely your vertebra are not coated up wisely you may get heavily tousled. usually after an ejection you're a pair of million-3" shorter the! n once you took off, the prompt compression of your spin can quickly pa! ralyze you or completely. yet usually you would be in a stable place and the surely ejection isn't the concern, the landing is. The prompt G-marvel knocks all of us out, so which you always awaken interior the straps with a deployed cover over you. in case you have a bad day and stay subconscious or if the wind is intense or in case you land on choppy terrain or purely back, having a bad day, you may hit the floor and brake many bones or worse. many situations human beings have ejected and not survived. it is not a stable factor, yet many times, this is the extra effective decision....Show more
Ronnie Barcus: Almost every aircraft ever made can glide to a landing even with all engines failed, assuming you still have the ability to operate the control surfaces.The only exception I know of is the F-4. It's best glide with both engines out is 220 knots with a descent of about 3,000 feet per minute. A survivable landing at those speeds doesn't seem likely. That's why they! called it the 'flying brick'.You can also attempt to relight the engines....Show more
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