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Old 17th Jun 2006, 22:40
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Redflyin
 
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That does make sense. I just have a book that says its best to lose an upwind engine.

If the wind is from the left on takeoff then you would be applying right rudder to keep the nose straight, if you lost the left engine (upwind) then it would naturally want to yaw left, adding to the yaw to the left (wind plus lost of thrust on the left)

Its a little different on a turbo-prop where the critical engine is always the left engine because of the high amount of torque and P-factor. The wind never seemed to make that much difference to me.

Just trying to figure it out, thanks for the help.
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