FS2020: Gliding Guide - Engine Failure in C-172: Back To Basics With MSFS Part 25

Continuing our Back To Basics With MSFS Series: In this video, I explain & demonstrate Gliding Principles, following an engine failure - and even manage to force land!

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⌚Timestamps⌚
Introduction: (0:00)
Gliding procedures explained: (1:10)
Gliding demonstration down to forced landing: (3:46)

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[RedRuffinsore]

Thanks for this video! Really good suggestions. As a real-life private pilot many years ago, the entire time I I was flying I thought "if the engine quits now, where will I go....if the engine quits now, where will I go?" Constantly. That's what my instructor taught me. I had a real engine failure once and had to set down in a field. Not pretty, but got the plane down safely. Your heading toward the trees after touchdown was very reminiscent of what happened to me. My butt was not even touching the seat as I was STANDING on the toe brakes. A REAL challenge to get the plane back out of there! I was always taught you can go 7 times horizontally as your height above the ground in a 172.

[hammerpgh]

Interesting video, I haven't thought of doing this type of landing myself but will definitely do so now I've watched this.

[AcesDwn]

Great video Huddison!!! Personally, I'd have picked a field closer to where I lost power, and circled the landing point until I was low enough to start downwind abeam "the numbers" (touchdown point), then short base to final. This way, I'm not re-thinking my landing spot. I've chosen and committed to it, and I make the airplane get there.

I like to use the yoke at time of power loss to trade some airspeed for another couple of hundred feet of altitude, then trim to relieve yoke pressure.
When I was in flight training, we practiced this and you're right. We'd abort it at about 700 ft above ground level. However, We had some airports with grass strips too, so we'd practice at those fields all the way to landing and rollout..

Nice Job!!! 😎

[ViewBothSides]

A little known secret is MSFS doesn't model any kind of friction in the engine, which is why all props on all MSFS planes windmill like crazy and you can't simulate an engine failure which involves the prop actually stopping. You'd think sim power pilots would have noticed, it's been a pain in the ass for us motor-glider devs for years. (tech point, fs2002/4/fsx/msfs model various torques in the engine/prop, but not friction, so trying to stop the prop is like balancing a pencil on it's tip and is impossible while airborn).

[ronholfly]

I was in my sim flying from Cardiff to Bristol a few weeks ago on crossing the Bristol channel I had just passed the south shoreline and my engine began losing power then cut out, I checked all my instruments and found my fuel tanks were empty, now I had a dead engine and was using my best glide speed and looking for a suitable field with time running out I chose a field, crossed the hedges and landed my Cessna 172 safely and came to stop. Lucky it was in my simulator, but I do check my fuel status every time now. I have never crashed a plane flying in my simulator. Been flying in my Simulator and occasionally for real when I can afford it since 1992. Never crashed an aircraft in the Sim and never for real. Hope my instructor don't read this. Climb on that wing and manually check your fuel status. one rule I do every time now

[sivoltage]

Hehe that was a fun one to watch. Need to do a group flight engine failure session soon. Carnage!

[errolrpartridge]

Another great video!
I often kill the engine; hit 'Nearest' on the nav and try to see if I can make it in one piece to the most suitable airfield, given the height I've got.

[rubberduck]

nice gliding skill and video // flying near my home town too

[the.niftynomad]

welldone. By the way, love the intro - let's not dilly-dally... haha.

[CanaryIrish]

Hudds ... Another gem. Noticed a button called VNAV on Garmin 1000 and haven't a clue what it does. Did you ever cover it in the tutorials ?

[jannissen]

My flight simulator has begun to crash after the latest update.