Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
stuffed up the modes and having one of the engines pulled back to idle after takeoff (test flight) didn't help. It was a crew ballsup that caused that one.
That is undeniably true. After over a decade of using this case to underpin a few Vmca slides, I was somewhat surprised to learn the PIC routine for that doomed day.
2x 4 hrs SIM session with pilots and then a VVIP event for customers. Finish that, and off to perform the flight test.