When it all goes lumpy
 

Well at least with only one engine, if it's stopped you know where you're going !
I can't claim any total engine failures but...
No1.. VW 1600 blew a bottom plug out on the climbout at 800ft and left me with no upwardness at all, so I scraped round part of a circuit and landed into wind on a not-normally used piece of the airfield. Had I landed ahead I wouldn't be writing this !
No2.. Zero oil pressure en-route, so was compelled to land on what I could see and glide to... which happened to be Elvington. The pool of oil underneath the aircraft proved I did indeed have a problem (the oil cooler had failed)
No3 .......Hmmmmm !
:hmm:

Keeping the engine running with severe vibration
 

If you decide to keep the engine running with severe vibration, is there a risk of breaking the engine mounts, and losing the engine? That would lead to an impossible c of g situation.

Its a hard call lesser of two evils. I didnt determine that the vibrations where too severe to cause engine mounts to break :) but decided that with the feel of the aircraft shutting one down would have meant down and only down so kept it going for a while!

As it was things turned out OK as it was the right descision in that particular situation.

When you are in a real situation like that you will know what I mean.

Pace

One of my instructors (crusty old pilot type) had 5 engine failures.

Another one only had one... in nearly 60 years of professional flying!

I've only had one... when turning onto base over a town (so no option of a pfl). But it was quickly resolved when I realized that the student had got the carb heat and the mixture levers muddled up! :eek:

Hmm. Never had a clanking engine failure myself but an old instructor colleague told me once he had had eight over the years. Impressed, I asked then his considered advice about avoiding them. 'That's easy', he said, 'Don't fly cr@p aircraft !'.

My engine fails me everytime I get into the air. It fails to deliever the power I need to have the 6000'/min climb rate I dream of!!:ugh: