- with the hills of Arkansas underneath. I brought the other engine up to
maximum available power and continued on to a VFR airport.

THAT is what a twin does for you.

Michael

Agreed! and you can replace "with the hills of Arkansas underneath" with
"the cold steely waters of Lake Michigan etc" or "in the middle of a
moonless night over the Great (unpopulated) White North" or any of a 1/2
dozen other scenarios. The bottom line is that is gives you more options
when the sh*t hits the fan.

I don't want to open a can of worms but before anybody jumps on the "the
second engine is there to fly you to the scene of the accident" band wagon,
I'll just add that successful single engine emergency landings in twin
engine airplanes isn't a statistic that is reported (to my knowledge) so an
accurate comparison between non successful engine out emergency landings and
successful engine out emergency landings wouldn't be possible.

The key to flying a twin is the same as flying any other aircraft, be
proficient in all areas of operation. A statistic that I would like to know
is in twin engine prop planes involved in Vmc roll accidents, how many
crashed with the airplane configured incorrectly. Know your airplane, know
it's limitations, know it's procedures, and know what's going to happen
next.

I don't know of another twin that gives you so many positives with so few
negatives. The more we fly our Aztec, the more we like it.

Jim



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