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Offline beechsundowner

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Emergency Descents with ATC COMS - Video
« on: August 22, 2009, 09:45:54 PM »
Somebody told me it was "overkill" to tell KJAN approach that I would be executing rapid altitude changes in this video..

My thoughts were the opposite since I was not doing "normal" maneuvers in the practice area, I was well above normal practice area altitudes and I thought it would be helpful so the controller can plan accordingly?

Thoughts most appreciated on this.   



Had never done an emergency descent with banking as a tool.  It was suggested to me to try this with a 90 degree bank.

Very interesting experience as it really works and works quickly!  I tried 2 without banking and 2 with banking of which the video contains one of each.

Video contains both outside and instrumentation views but the instrumentation view unfortunately wasn't as good as I hoped.  Camera power saving feature shut the camera off and I lost my zoom setting.