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Old 24th Dec 2006, 12:43
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"Planes with wing mounted engines may be a lttle more efficient than those with tail mounted engines, btw, but they require a much larger and more powerful rudder to fly on one engine. That magnifies the seriousness of a wayward rudder." G.B.


......Absolutley true, and I think most training organiziations do not emphsize this enough. HUGE loads involved. Makes for more of a handfull of airplane in a crosswind also. When I did IOE, I always tried to give students a couple of crosswind landings (once again, something not normally emphasized in the sim).
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