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Old 7th Jan 2024, 13:27
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Salute!

As a fellow, really old aviator, with Geri, I would really be "concerned" in a multi engine plane without a rudder when one motor quit. Especially if I could not feather the prop, although a pure jet/turbofan might be slightly easier,but not so with swept wings ( roll due to yaw worse on bent wings).

All the yaw dampers and aileron-rudder interconnect and FBW control laws are no substitue for cranking in some rudder when it is required to keep the pointy end forward.

Just my thots from a mostly single-engine or multi-engine, centerline thrust dude, although the over-powered A-37 needed an awful lot of rudder on a single engine go-around (lost two that way, but then trained folks to use lottsa rudder early). My LEF adventure also required plenty of rudder that the FBW laws did not command.

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