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Old 11th December 2007 | 11:07
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parabellum
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Well I only ever had one real engine failure during flight and any idea that you might 'zoom' climb after the failure whilst the speed drifted back would have been a joke. It was a catastrophic failure of the compressor and happened so quickly that the yaw, when corrected, had the airspeed back at 70kts and by the time the vital actions and a Mayday had gone out the IAS was stabilising at around 50kts.

Seen many fine demonstrations of the 'zoom' climb but in reality you may not have that opportunity.
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