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Old 05-19-2007 | 09:31 AM
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Default RE: How to save twin if one engine stops?

All good information. Unfortunately for modelers, the only feedback we can count on when things are going sour is our visual feedback (audio is sometimes useless at a noisy model field). We don't get the seat of the pants info, the stall warning, airspeed, etc. Different situations and different airplanes require different solutions to an engine out scenario. If for example your plane is flying perpendicular to you and 500ft out, it may take the average modeler a few seconds to recognize there is an engine out and how to respond to it. With a high wing loaded P38, your plane may already be in trouble. Now the plane is turning toward you, yawing and rolling right. You inadvertently give it right rudder in the confusion and your plane spins in. With a slightly nose heavy plane, if you throttle back the good engine, the nose will drop and the plane will continue flying if you stay off the elevator. Assuming you still have some altitude, you can correct the plane's attitude, ease the throttle back on,add some rudder and aileron and fly the plane. Even though everything you said is true, the circumstances are different for a model airplane. Also remember most modelers have more than one plane, a twin is just one of them. It's probably safe to say most modelers will never have hundreds of hours flying twins; devices like the TwinSync could help save a plane for us part time pilots. (No, I don't know Bill!)