Go-around after engine failure in light twin

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single engine commital height

A light twin will not climb unless all the conditions are right , the aircraft has to have the prop on the dead engine feathered ,the gear UP, 5 degrees of bank into the live engine , flaps up , cooling flaps in the correct position and the WAT conditions also have to be met ,above all blue line speed must be maintained to climb or reduce the rate of descent to a mimimum.

After a go-around as been decided apon it will take time before the aircraft can be re-configered for the climb and during this time the aircraft will be going DOWN.

It is therefore important that a single engine commital height be decided apon taking into account all the above factors and the objects around the airfield that may have to be avoided.

A typical commital height for a low time pilot would be 600ft AGL ,the aircraft should be flown at blue line speed untill this height is reached , from that point on the aircraft MUST land should be slowed to Vref and the landing flap deployed.

It is quite simple once below the commital height the aircraft has NOT got the performance to go around and so must land even if this means going off the far end of the runway at a slow speed or putting the aircraft on a part of the airfield not normaly used for landing aircraft.

To go around below the commital height will mean that the aircraft will be unable to climb clear of some close in object and hit it or the pilot will pull the nose up to try to avoid the object , the speed will bleed off untill the aircraft reaches Vmca and yaw control is lost the aircraft will then yaw and roll towards the dead engine very rapidly and will usualy hit the ground inverted.

I can only speculate that the left turn in this case was the pilot starting to lose control in yaw as to try to turn would have further reduced the allready very small ,if any rate of climb.