Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2006-02-28, Matt Whiting wrote:

Hard to imagine a pilot so sensory impaired that he or she can't detect
the loss of 50% of their power, which results in lost of far more than
50% of most performance attributes. I'd really not want to fly with a
pilot who was that out of touch with their airplane.


I don't think that was necessarily the problem - imagine being just
airborne on an obstructed and reasonably short airfield, then one of the
engines quit. Although you feel the loss of thrust, it's not obvious
which engine has actually failed from the yaw because there isn't any.
Add to that the typical market segment for a 337 (people who percieve
they won't be safe enough in a normal twin) and you're asking for
trouble.

In a center-line twin, why does it matter which engine failed? You have
to adjust to the reduced thrust no matter which engine gave up, right?
Sure, you need to feather the correct prop and secure the dead engine,
but that doesn't have to be done in the first millisecond after failure.
And it isn't that hard to look at the gauges and decide which one quit.

Matt