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Old 02-05-2015, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Zeeb
Yeah it looked like a VMC demonstration. In full scale multi-engine stuff, all the various minimum and maximum air speeds are labeled as "V" speeds. VMC is minimum single engine control speed. If you drop under that speed with only one engine putting out power, the aircraft will initially pull to the dead engine and you cannot override that asymmetric thrust with the control surfaces. As the problem progresses, the aircraft will roll into the dead engine and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it then unless you are way high.
Excellent Zeeb, I thought vmc problem from first video clip I saw last night. The aircraft is shown cleaned up, gear & flaps up with gear doors closed and LE looks to be in "auto feather". If the aircraft had been above vmc there is no reason to lose control unless there was another system failure we don't know about yet.