Kenny Keller walks through landing a plane in a tight space. Scout the ground first for trees and slope, approach at 60 knots, descend to 400 feet to look it over, then commit to a steep final with a 100 ft/min descent rate. If it doesn't feel right, go around.
About 60 knots
About 400 ft AGL
About 100 ft per minute
About 40 ft
From west to east
All right, well, let's use. There's kind of a horseshoe. Kind of a horseshoe over here with one end open.
I think I see it.
Yeah, it's even got like the cut grass. Yeah, you're heading right towards it.
And you got two birds have it inside. No backstrap at the moment.
Fuckers. Get out of here.
Let's turn a little bit more this way.
So it's this one right here. And we'll imagine that where it's cut, that's like another. That's a wall of trees.
Okay. Perf. Perfect. So let me just reduce our speed a tiny bit. So as I said, we want about 60 knots or so. We are right about the altitude. We have a little bit more. So let's descend about 50ft to go. There we go. Perfect. And we want to start our maneuver. And at the moment, we have a little bit of a tailwind which is going to push us out. So we want to increase our bank. Looking at this confined area, it looks much better than the last one. Of course, we are looking at a line of trees and our imaginary trees that are about 40ft in height. We have sloping terrain at the moment, sloping up in this way. Considering our wind, our best approach at the moment would be from. From the west to the east. Over the trees. Of course, because we have our imaginary line of trees here. We want to make our approach kind of towards the second half of that square, if you want to call it a square at the moment. Up a little bit. Let's control that. And I don't see any animals. My only concern is that the vegetation is a little bit high, so we might not be able to set it down all the way. Given our concerns for the exhaust pipe, we don't want to set it up on fire. We don't see any people, any other obstacles. I am happy with this. I'm just going to do an extra orbit. That way we can go on our downwind, do our checks and come back on. Start descending a little bit more towards 400 AGL. Little birds on that side. All right. On our lower recon right here, I can't see any difference at the moment with the obstacles. We have an entry path. We can go around easily. At any point, we're going to have enough clearance for goal attack pressures and temperature turn to green. We have no warning lights. Our carpet assist is doing the job. Speed 50. We want still a little bit less altitude at this point. And then we're gonna turn. Base. We have one bird over here. I have it in sight won't be a factor when we turn out. We have rising terrain. Of course, now that we're on the final we're going to use a steeper approach. Our descent rate is about 100ft per minute. We can take our speed as low as we need to at this very moment. Controlling our rate.
Okay, you can fly away.
Okay, go around.
You can fly away. We'll call it a go. We'll call it go around. Perfect going just we don't want to go down there with we don't want to try to hover above that tall. So that's kind of what Jeff does. He wants to see the setup, see the approach, start heading in at some point he'll go, okay, let's fly away.
You can go away. Yeah, perfect. So we have 60 knots.
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