>Blue line is the best climb speed on one engine. How is climbing, however slowley, better than maintaining altitude?<
Because you may not be climbing at all at blue line and without speed your margins are smaller and it is easier to get below blue line with all the horrors of increased drag and a dramatically worsening situation which shows up in the appalling twin accident rates with one engine out.
But I am NOT putting this forward as a replacement to blue line climb but an extra alternative in certain situations. Go try it in a safe situation and make your own mind up.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 28th May 2008 at 12:33.