I know this topic is going to be like a can of worms with each of us coming up with his own views and experiences. Now , if we are to write some thing in black and white in the company ops manual for EVERY PILOT to follow that is going to be very different. Some sort of figures has to come out. Most of the Cat A profile take offs ( at least for EC 225) calls for climb at V toss to 200 ft AGL then accelerate to Vy maybe I should say we proceed with the Fire Drill after 200 ft and above Vy might be a good idea.Of course very good CRM has to be displayed to prevent shutting down the wrong engine.
I did a very naughty thing at Helisim on the EC 225 sim recently. I asked for a Eng Fire emergency and did NOTHING about it while continuing with the other ex excises. Can anyone guess how long it took for the sim to crash?