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• Airplane Flying HandbookPDF page 357
  Chapter 18: Emergency Procedures › Emergency Descents

  Emergency Descents An emergency descent is a maneuver for descending as rapidly as possible to a lower altitude or to the ground for an emergency landing. [Figure 18-6] The need for this maneuver may result from an uncontrollable fire ... airplane as soon and as rapidly as possible while not exceeding any structural limitations of the airplane. Simulated emergency descents should be made in a turn to check for other air traffic below and to look around for a possible…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 3-21
  Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Glides

  required to produce acceleration at low airspeed should “mushing” and/or an excessive rate of descent be allowed to develop. ⦁ Emergency descent—some airplanes have a specific procedure for rapidly losing altitude. The AFM/POH specifies the procedure. In general, emergency descent ... specific airplane configuration (such as power to idle, propellers forward, landing gear extended, and flaps retracted), and a specific emergency descent airspeed. Emergency descent maneuvers often include turns. Glides A glide is a basic maneuver in which the airplane loses…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 18-9
  Chapter 18: Emergency Procedures › In-Flight Fire › Engine Fire

  This provides increased drag and a high rate of descent. The recovery from an emergency descent should be initiated at a high enough altitude to ensure a safe recovery back to level flight or a precautionary landing. Figure ... Emergency descent. When the descent is established and stabilized during training and practice, the descent should be terminated. In airplanes with piston engines, prolonged practice of emergency descents should be avoided to prevent excessive cooling of the engine cylinders…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 15-1
  Index

  Defining an airplane upset 5-1 Descents and descending turns Descent at minimum safe airspeed 3-21 Emergency descent Partial power descent Detonation Directional control Door opening in-flight Drag devices Drift and ground track control 7-2 E Effect ... Eights along a road Eights around pylons Eights-on-pylons Elevator trim stall Emergencies Emergency approaches and landings (simulated) Emergency descents Emergency landings Psychological hazards 18-1 Types of emergency landings Ditching Forced landing Precautionary landing Emergency situations Energy balance…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 18-22
  Chapter 18: Emergency Procedures › Emergency Response Systems › Ballistic Parachutes

  senses erratic flying, it stabilizes the aircraft, and checks for pilot responsiveness. Without further input, the EAL initiates an emergency descent. Without pilot responsiveness after an emergency descent, EAL initiates the process for an automated landing. The system also allows…