Originally Posted by Rudderrat
It's the delay in recognising the engine failure, before the TLs are closed which causes the problem. In real life, the change in heading will be felt early, whereas the sim points in the same direction (no clue there). You'll also feel the sideways acceleration immediately, the sim has to roll in order to simulate the yaw and consequently lags.
Eh? The SIM yaws dramatically into the dead engine (twists horizontally). Roll is not required, nor is it used by the SIM mechanism to simulate an engine failure on TO.
I've never had an issue inadvertently putting on the brakes when using lots of rudder. In fact, as stated before, trying to move one's feet up from the floor whilst putting in near-to full rudder is all-nigh impossible unless you've got very shiny soles and very shiny rudder pedals.
No question in my mind; feet up all the time; just don't toe the brakes inadvertently. Heels push the rudder, toes put on the brakes. If you have to stretch so much that you can't stop your toes moving forward and applying the brakes, you're sitting too far back.