Jogger killed by an airplane.

[TurboTravis]

@Boxersix

lots o plane talk from very few pilots here planes don’t glide too well w/o power. you start falling like a brick quite fast. That’s until you get into the ground effect boundary, when you get really close to the ground the ground effect starts to fuck with you and pending the plane can make things tricky to put on the ground w/o power. GE in lamens terms is the air trapped between ground and plane that actually forces the plane back up.

Being a pilot I can say that the operator of that aircraft likely had his eyes on instrumentation amongst other things. ALOT goes through your head when cruising at ~3K feet and you lose an engine, panic likely was part of the issue as well. I’ve put a DA20 down dead stick before. Not fun at all.

Still lol’ing at PBJ here. :rofl

You’re trying to tell me that a Cessna 152 does not glide well? Not even sure if that’s the aircraft in question, but most small, single engine prop planes only lose 1 foot of altitude for each 9-11 feet they glide forward. No way that I’d call that ‘falling like a brick’.

Also, if he’s looking at instruments at that point, he’s a piss-poor pilot.