Originally Posted by
BFSGrad
Excerpt from FO 2nd interview:
Q. Is the rudder pressure -- does it take a lot of pressure when you lose an engine to hold it or is it kind of like tiptoe touching pushing rudder?
A. It does in the simulator. But in the airplane, it didn't. It wasn't (indiscernible) that much. I was surprised. I remember being surprised that it wasn't like the simulator.
Q. By not the simulator, I just want to make sure I in my head I have it correctly -- you're saying in the simulator it took a lot of pressure. And in the --
A. Yes.
Q. -- airplane, it did not. Correct?
A. (No audible response)
The FDR data appears to indicate that initially the problem was a partial loss of thrust on the #2 engine, which surprised the FO because the Transair sim training was for complete loss of thrust.
My thought was that the F.O. overcompensated with left rudder, perhaps due to the SIM needing a bootful or perhaps because the #2 failure was only partial, which then caused a left yaw, leaving the CPT with the impression that the left engine had the problem.