Originally Posted by
Clare Prop
... The EFATO turn back never ends well...
In general I'd agree, but the usually clear decision to land ahead may be somewhat clouded when you've got some altitude and the engine is developing partial power (and, maybe, particularly crappy options out the front window).
Sometimes you make an experiential decision that if it came off you'd be lauded for, but if it doesn't you're vilified. It's not clear from what I've read so far that the latter would be warranted here, although I accept there may be a back story we're not privy to. While some might put this outcome down to [poor] skills training I wonder if we'd be better off discussing the partial power issue and how to deal with that? I'm not sure it's been well taught anywhere, let alone recently; no doubt we have all done EFATO practice for no engine, but what about 75%, 50%, 25% power? What to do then?
FP.