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Ditching Demystified: What Every Pilot Should Know About Landing on Water

Flying Magazine

The Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) discusses water landings in Paragraph 6-3-3, Ditching Procedures. Some of these are quite precise: for one Cessna single, the procedure is to establish a 300 fpm descent at 55 knots. And all kinds of critters. What to Do?

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NASA Forms

AV Web

I would prefer to be 5 or 10 knots slower than the barber pole (maximum indicated airspeed in a turbine airplane) or red line. Former editions of the Aeronautical Information Manual included the phrase hit the buzzer, which Medevac pilots could use to ask ATC to ask the jamming agency to stop, mostly to allow instrument approaches.