04-22-2009, 03:34 AM
That's frakkin great! Man, for an amateur pilot (assumption on my part) that's hella instinct and decision making, especially when he hasn't trained for that situation. Good pilots are always expecting the worst and planning ahead of time. It requires a good feel (gained from experience) of the airplane's performance limits to pull something like that off. I remember going up with my cousin a year or so ago (we were in a Cessna 172) and always being on the lookout for an emergency landing spot, in addition to flying the airplane and navigating (he was the licensed pilot...I just happened to be 'driving').