
Originally Posted by
AZBuck
Actually, this is a scenario that comes up on every check ride a pilot takes. You can be gauranteed that at some point during the flight the inspector or instructor will reach over and turn off the engine (or just throtle it back to idle) and ask you to put it down 'somewhere'. You will then have to find some appropriate landing spot, a field, road, or - if you're lucky - an airstrip, and get the plane set up for a landing. Typically you get to within a few hundred feet off the ground before he is satisfied that you could put it in and lets you resume flight. It's good to see that in Mr. Smith's case, the training paid off.