TJ &
BB Quite agree with you on that, standard cockpit drill here with 2-pilot ops is to brief actions in the event of engine failure although it's usually much more to do with failure just before or just after t/o in a twin. Whether one extends that drill to EFATO's depends on how much time you have judging by this thread
Capt, yep, 300ft I'd probably do the same as you but every 100' higher gives me more options and so I find a good robust discussion such as this invaluable to see what others would do. Incidentally I may well take the piss but sneering is not part of the makeup
bjornhall you indirectly raise a good point with the checklist thing, certainly not somethign you'd typically be messing around with at 300' but this is where experience of motors and/or flying experience kicks in. If you are a higher-time pilot then typically more of your actions are automatic and require less thinking, so you could have more 'processing time' available to devote to the things that require thought such as swapping fuel tanks, fuel pump, ignition etc whilst still landing the thing. Equally and perhaps more importantly in some cases a good understanding of engines will most certainly help - if it went bang rather loudly & you'd got oil on the 'screen then let's just concentrate on the landing, however did it die slowly like a fuel-out thing or was it intermittent like an ignition thing? Is it simply making noises and/or shaking with
reduced power? All of these things give further options that could well be enough to save the day if we're quick enough and our actions are automatic enough. Most certainly the latter is one I can't stress enough, if you've got partial power, and you need it to make a field or whatever then use it don't baby it, this isn't an endurance test!
FP.