So I took a friend flying today, the first time he as ever flown with me, we were in a 182RG, we lost power shortly after liftoff with not enough runway to land. We were about 300 feet off the ground, I had enough power to maintain 50knots striaght and level. There was nothing but buildings and houses straight ahead, so I started a turn back to the field. I kept about 10 to 15 degrees angle bank and about 45 knots. I checked the mixture, I had full power, the stall warning was beeping on and off, I declared an emergency and kept looking for a place to land if I had too. There really was alot of obstacles around, there was one open field with construction going on, but there was alot of heavy equipment in the way. Needless to say, we made it back to the runway alright and taxied off.
After shutdown, and when I got out, I noticed oil all over the left landing gear strut. I checked the oil, it was at 4qts, down from 6qts on the preflight.
Besides all the other crap going through my head, all I could think about was that I was going to kill my buddy, and his wife was going to be pissed! During the whole thing, he kept his cool (non-pilot) and really was a calm reassurance, I kept saying we are going to be alright, just hold on if you have to put it down, he would say "doing good, were going to make it".
It really worked out ok, I took the crosswind runway vice the other ones which is a good thing, way to many high buildings at the end of the normal runways, we would have hit one.
After shutdown, and when I got out, I noticed oil all over the left landing gear strut. I checked the oil, it was at 4qts, down from 6qts on the preflight.
Besides all the other crap going through my head, all I could think about was that I was going to kill my buddy, and his wife was going to be pissed! During the whole thing, he kept his cool (non-pilot) and really was a calm reassurance, I kept saying we are going to be alright, just hold on if you have to put it down, he would say "doing good, were going to make it".
It really worked out ok, I took the crosswind runway vice the other ones which is a good thing, way to many high buildings at the end of the normal runways, we would have hit one.