A long standing practice of flight instruction has been that understanding can come later: "do as I say and things will never be wrong" and that has been successful but only until things do go wrong. "dead leg, dead engine - shove hard on the pedal that is giving the most resistance" has its parallel in the Biggs Mueller practice for disorientated spin recovery. The Beggs Mueller advice is applicable when the pilot becomes disorientated but not as a primary method as some will have it.
The primary recovery from yaw(spin) is to identify the direction of rotation (yaw) first and equally this is true in the prevention/recovery from yaw following an engine failure. So first identifying the yaw and removing the cause whilst preventing further yaw is first covered in upper airwork until it is fully understood and the yaw can be promptly identified by the pilot. Dead leg, dead engine is a 1st class back up technique but should not be the primary technique.
Last edited by Fl1ingfrog; 13th August 2020 at 09:00.