Tony Peden writes: > Huh!?! Except at high power settings and low speed in a twin, > engine failure should not cause a big upset. Even then, if you're > fairly quick to get on the rudder, it's generally very controllable > (or should be, anyway...)
A friend of mine has a Frasca sim (cockpit enclosure, full working panel, etc.) It has a twin mode and I tried repeatedly to survive an engine out on take off in one of their light twins (forget which one, maybe a baron?) and had no luck; I hit hard every time. I don't know about a real pilot in a real plane, but this sim took a lot more coaxing than I had in me to even maintain altitude with an engine out; if you let your airspeed drop below blue line[1] trying to hold altitude, it get's real ugly real fast. [1] Blue line is the speed below which the rudder cannot overcome the torque effects of a single engine and you can no longer have directional control. I would guess that *many* designs (especially commercial jets) would be much more survivable in those circumstances. And they'd have the added advantage of having a real pilot at the controls. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
