I'll get the picture up later. I flew a 68" Beech King Air 1900 for 11 years before selling it in late 2001. The plane had somewhere in the neigborhood of 1500 flights on it. I would estimate about 80 or so engine failures. There is a significant difference between loosing the left engine and the right engine. Some days loosing an engine was a total non-event. Other days it was a hair raising experience that left me shaking. I don't know what the difference was. Density altitude maybe, I can't say.
Even if someone builds the exact model that you are building, thier experence may differ greatly from what might happen to you.
I could never turn toward the good engine without reducing power. If I turned toward the dead engine, then I had to reduce power to return to level.
People would ask me which engine had died. My response was always, " I don't know, look at my hands and you tell me!" My point is this, you will automatically and instantly compensate for an engine failure. It just happens. The tricky part is trying to figure out which way you can turn without reducing power, particularly if you tend to fly around on the deck like me. Many times I would watch my plane get smaller and smaller as it flew away from me. I would have the sticks all the way over and there she flew straight away. Many times I thought, this ain't working! Do something, something different, anything but this. Relax the rudder!!!! Not all the way, just a little and it will turn back. And believe me, the time will come when you say to yourself, "this ain't working!"
I don't know why I had the succes that I did. I don't have the best hands and I don't have the best eyes either. The first two or three years I had the model, I flew it high enough that loosing an engine only meant that I might have to extend a glide slightly with the remaining engine. I only made breif low passes and then returned to altitude. My heart was always racing when I landed, the plane was an absolute thrill!
We lost a flying site in the woods and joined an AMA club with ahuge wide open field. No obsticals at all to hit. It seemed boring at first , so the twin started down to the deck. I loved flying it around low. I could generally tell if the engines were singing along together, and if they weren't then I would climb up or land. This is the time I started loosing engines down low, say less then twenty feet high. And this is the time I really learned what it was to fly one one engine. No altitude to exchange for speed, the plane would slow very close to Vmc. There were a couple of failures on short final , low and slow with full flaps. I couldn't add power without rolling over, and I couldn't bring up the flaps without landing short of the runway and into a plowed feild. Both times resulted in ripping one of the main landing gear out of the wing. I went right back to making those slow flat approaches anyway, they look so cool. But they can bite you. Anyway, if an idiot like me can have succes flying twins, believe me, anyone can!!