David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It's not mainly torque effects but the yawing moment that you have to > worry about. Unless the plane is a centreline thrust, the good engine > will be off to one side pulling that side forward and starting a > yaw-induced roll (and if the bad one is not feathered, it will be > dragging the far side back even further). In fact, if things start to > go bad, the last-ditch solution is to cut the good engine as well -- > if you do that in time, you can at least try a forced landing.
Keep in mind I don't know how to fly, so get out your grains of salt :-) It seems to me I read somewhere that if you have any altitude at all (>1000ft) the thing to do is move all the levers up to full throttle. Cut the throttle on the engine you think is out, because with most aircraft you don't want to risk feathering your good engine. Then if things are still yawing bad (meaning you cut the throttle on the engine that is really dead), feather immediately. Try to do the whole procedure in a few seconds, but don't skip the safeguard step. I'll have to ask my boss what he experienced last year when losing an engine on his Grumman Cougar. The thing I remember most about his story was the less than friendly phone call he got from the FAA because he decided to continue and fly it home on one engine (about 350 miles). Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
