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Old 30th Jul 2010, 15:33
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LeadSled
 
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I'd suggest that should any FOI or ATO want to pull the mixture, the hospital emergency dept may be seeing an increase in broken arms.
Brien,

Usually the hospital emergency department remains undisturbed, because there are no survivors.

Not always the case, the last one at Camden, (pulled the mixture at night) the check pilot died the following day, but the pilot being checked ( an American airline Captain in Australia for a flying holiday) took about three months to die of burns.

Since that one, we have had another fatal on twin training at Bankstown.

What a dreadful waste of life, and all completely unnecessary.

And the undereducated but overconfident dingbats want to still tell us about the "training value" of "real" engine failures ---- not zero thrust, and the "confidence building" alleged to result from landing with one feathered ----- your not a "real multi-engine pilot" if you haven't landed with one prop feathered.

With not a clue about the certification criteria for most (ex. "Commuter amendment") FAR 23 aircraft, which means, in reality "a single engine aeroplane with twice the chance of engine failure".

This garbage has been going on for years, how many more do we have to kill, before it stops????

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