A thread to continue the discussion from the forced landing thread, about "cause of failure checks" for a partially failed engine in flight and about the use of a typical engine restart check list.
A restart check list to me is for the purpose of restarting a stopped engine and that is it, however it does raise the question about what you would do if there is an engine problem where the engine continues to operate, and there is some crossover between that and an in-flight restart.
Big Pistons Forever wrote:
What checklist are you going to use to deal with a situation like the mag failure ?
There isn't a check list for that, so most of us I think would look at the available instruments and listen to the engine sound to try and work out where the problem was. Would anybody at this point start fiddling with controls or maybe selecting a field or nearby airfield for a precautionary landing and communicating that accordingly?
Since Big Pistons Forever mentioned in the forced landing thread that he teaches a "cause check" for engine problems, I'd like to invite him to detail that here as it would quite likely be useful to many of us.