It's probably taboo to even suggest this, but am I the only person who thinks that maybe we spend far too much time worrying about engine failures in difficult-to-survive situations, when they very rarely happen?
I couldn't agree more Whirly. It does seem like a taboo subject but it certainly shouldn't be. I have less than 200hrs total time and I feel that an inordinate amount of my training has been spent plummetting to the earth not really knowing whether I or the instructor is really flying the thing, when statistically I am more likely to fly into cumulo-granite. Now actually, I am very
unlikely to fly into the ground as I am such a big coward when it comes to flying when there is anything other than just sky in the sky, but my point is, as made by Whirly, that surely we should be training with more emphasis on the accidents that are actually happening rather than the ones that exceptionally rarely do.
Don't get me wrong, PFLs and EOLs are a vital part of the training process and yes, I have had an EFATO demonstrated along with low-level EOLs and they were hugely useful as a demo, but I do think we do engine-off in the circuit to death (no pun intended) with students who, with such low experience, are unlikey to really peg them.
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