Can you Pulse and Glide an airplane?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Gather 'round chilluns, and listen to the tale of the Gimli Glider...

The pilot was already quite experienced on gliding, and presumably that's why he managed to land safely.

[porgies]

years ago i was a helicopter pilot/mechanic and flew offshore on the oil rigs in LA.
I rebuilt this old 1946 Aeronca chief and use to fly back and forth between Home la and southern IL i had a 7 day on 7 day off schedule. One trip from IL to LA, i guess it was a dry front i passed got a bit bumpy but then i noticed my airspeed was 125 mph ( usually cruised at 85 mph) so i quickly pulled the throttle back to idle and kept in that updraft. I had to slightly alter my course but could maintain over 100mph at idle. There were no mountains it was a cold front and i just caught it at the right time. I had wished i had more time to ride it out but after a half hour i had to turn back to my origional course. Having glider experience kinda helped me keep in that wave.

[Piotrsko]

Somewhere I still have a picture of my DME indicating 164 knots towards station over the Cali grapevine in maybe a 70 knot tailwind, pretty close to idle power. Vne of the pacer is something like 120 knots

[JRMichler]

I regret not taking a photo of the Garmin 430 showing 9 knots. And I even had enough reserve airspeed that I could have slowed down to get the groundspeed down to 0 knots. We were trying to get to 12,500 feet in a C152 to take some air samples, and only made it to slightly over 12,000.