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Old 22nd October 2011 | 09:39
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Fareastdriver
 
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I will go with Hughes500 on this. My first engine failure was on a Whirlwind 10 (turbine powered S55) on my second solo on type 300ft downwind. I had the lever on the floor and was turning into wind whilst I was going through the fire drill. Everything worked out fine and I arrived, somewhat surprised, just over a line of trees and just short of some power lines. I had yet again been blessed, as before and subsequently, with an aircraft with a very high instinct of self preservation.

Fortunately from 1971 and to my retirement I could always rely on one of the two decibel levers in the roof.
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