Originally Posted by
Hamley
Your examiner/instructor/trainer should include in their brief ‘engine failures will not be simulated below XX AGL’
If they don’t brief it, ask them about it before takeoff.
If they don’t put a number on it that sounds reasonable, you are getting closer to being one of these stories.
In the Camden Duchess case, the ATO
agreed not to pull an engine below 500AGL
and then went and did it anyway almost immediately after rotation! The phrase "with friends like these..." comes to mind.
Most everyone knows your average light twin is not going to be able to accelerate to Vyse with gear & flaps out and the 'failed' engine windmilling. Hell, even some
turbine twins can't do it, which is why they have autofeather (and incidentally, why going to Flight Idle instead of Zero Thrust simulates dual independent failures on autofeather-equipped engines...)
Has anyone had an instructor, or briefed to an instructor, words to the effect of "in the event of an engine failure before clean configuration and 200/500AGL I'll close the good throttle and land straight ahead"? If so, what was their reaction?