twin comanche

[anofly]

Looking for all the advice I can get
I think i have the "if one fails , and your climbing, get the nose down, then sort it out" down.....

[John Swallow]

The light twins I flew were fitted with flight directors and hitting the TOGA (takeoff/go around) switch would place the command bars in a position that would give you the approximate attitude to achieve blue line speed. 

[anofly]

and you wonder why folks are  afraid to post here!      LOL        thats quite a light twin... cheers

[Chuck Ellsworth]

The Twin Comanche is a great little airplane.

Just get a proper check out in it and fly it the way you were taught.

[Colonel]

I'm rather fond of the Twin Comanche.  Great for logging multi time!

Has the Lyc IO-320's if memory serves.  My advice would be, don't
try to climb on one engine.  Ever.  If you have an engine failure below
1000 AGL after takeoff, the safest choice is to pull both throttles back,
lower the nose and land.  No one ever does this, but it's survivable,
and the alternative  (Vmc demo) is not.

With a four-cylinder piston twin, realistically, if one engine fails you're
going to be doing well to just maintain whatever altitude you might have,
and most people don't like circling at 100 AGL.  Try it, sometime, with
both engines.

Expect a gradual descent, single engine.

Keep the airspeed up!

PS  All of those airplanes are getting so old.  Be careful about electrical wiring
and contacts and switches and breakers.  They will cause you trouble.

[anofly]

when its light, in training, it will climb 3-400 fpm  (2 up),
I am not counting on any climb with 4 and bags, I will heed the advice. I will give it one go,.then take to gliding...
Has fuel injected 172 engines. IO320's, 160 hp each.  a 172 with 4 up etc does not climb all that well, add a dead engine 90 gallons of gas, baggage etc etc.... not too  much going on....
Normal load is 2 plus bags, occasional 4....
its well maintained, 8 fresh cyls , cams etc. running strong right now.

[Colonel]

Sounds like a really nice airplane!

I'm glad you're not expecting much on the VSI on one engine
at max gross and high density altitudes.

PS  I fuss over my engines.  No really, you wouldn't believe the
care I take of them.  I am a huge proponent of engine monitors
with data logging.  You'd be amazed at what you can discover.

For example, the condenser on my right magneto was breaking
down causing the points to arc, above 150F.  Try diagnosing that
with steam gauges.  Only had 90 hours on the magneto since new.