TK thought he was being brilliantly witty and cutting when
he attacked me [i]today[/i] by saying:
[quote]rants against the entire aviation community [b]who do not meet your perceived level of perfection[/b].[/quote]
Years ago, I wrote an article called [u]The Meatball Multi-Engine Takeoff[/u]:
[quote]If an engine fails at very low altitude, before you move your right hand from the throttles to the gear selector, [b]push the nose down to maintain airspeed, and simply pull both throttles back and land on the remaining runway.[/b] If you have lots of runway left, you should be able to land with no damage to the airframe. The gear is still down, remember? If you took off from a short runway your landing might not be pretty, but you and your passengers will do better than if you had elected to continue the takeoff.
In the above scenario I have deliberately decided against going aviating in a piston twin with only one engine, with the gear down and one engine windmilling and producing drag. You aren’t going to be able to maintain a positive rate of climb with all that drag, and you don’t have time to get rid of all that drag, so [b]it’s best to land sooner, under control. It’s always best to land under control.[/b]
[b]One thing I cannot emphasize enough after an engine failure:[/b]
[b][size=1.35em]LOWER THE NOSE[/size][/b]
This is something which is often skipped during an engine failure during a climb, with hideous results as the airspeed decreases from blue line (Vyse) to red line (Vmc). If you maintain the same deck angle as you had with two engines turning, [b]the airspeed WILL decrease below red line and you will roll inverted as your rudder loses effectiveness and you yaw uncontrollably into the dead engine, killing yourself and your passengers.[/b]
[b]You must LOWER THE NOSE[/b] to maintain blue line airspeed, which is essential. When one engine fails, you have very little excess thrust available and simply cannot continue to climb with the pitch angle you had with two engines.[/quote]
So, the four bars tell me my standards are too high, and I
[i]hurt people's feelings[/i] by insisting on pilots developing strong
basic aircraft handling skills, which I spent a [i]quarter century[/i]
of my life teaching.
Hm.
I guess I should have gone to Woodstock with TK in his
VW microbus during the summer of love, when we all
had long beards and wore ponchos, and we could have
dropped acid and held hands and watched the sun set.
That would have been really groovy.
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