Originally posted by crockett
That's assuming you still have power.
Many years ago on an early spring morning I had an early morning flight (7:00AM) with a new student, I was the CFI, out of Colts Neck NJ . Just after departing the airport traffic area, there was bang, and a lot of shaking . “I got it”; I said and called for the emergency checklist, this would keep my student busy looking through the POH while I went through my memorized version.
The Cessna 150 had blown a jug. Lots of oil on the windshield and airframe. I pulled the power to idle but left what was left of the engine running, just in case, once I decided to land on Hwy#18 and had the spot made I cut the fuel off and went through the emergency briefing with my student.
The good news was at that time on a Saturday morning there is not much north bound traffic on hwy # 18, everyone is heading south towards the beach. The bad news was as soon as I appeared in the rear view or side mirror of an automobile that driver would hit his breaks.
Lucky thing everyone in NJ speeds, they were all doing 75 and I was only doing a little over 45 with full flaps and into a head wind. It was a good landing , no bounce.
Waited about 20 minutes (time before cell phones) before the first State Police car showed up, but within two minutes of the first police car, the first fire truck rolled in, followed soon after by a second , third and fourth, fire truck(all from different towns) and then 3 ambulances, one form each of the nearby towns.
A mountain of paper work from the State, Feds and of course each of the towns that had responded to the report that “a plane had crashed” followed by several hours of windshield cleaning and of course the flight school mechanic removed the engine and (4 hours later) replaced the engine. I got permission to take off of Hwy 18 and fly the 7.2 miles back to Colts Neck.
Take off of course was preceded by NJ State Police blocking off two miles of roadway in both the north and south bound lanes. I was airborne in just over 1000 feet I think.
