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Originally Posted by Undertoad
How many minutes is 5000 feet if you know what you're doing? The glider pilots can stay up all day...
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A 152 has something like a 6:1 glide ratio, so at 5,000 this guy had maybe a four to five mile radius to work from (depending on terrain elevation; altitudes are measured in feet above sea level) . Working against that is how much time/altitude he lost to bargaining, denial and other stages of grief before trimming for best glide speed (full nose up trim, in a 152) and picking a good spot to aim for.