Kyler Laird writes:

You're saying MS FS does *not* allow that? What does it do?

I tried it. With the standard Baron 58 I shut down one engine and
feathered it, then very gradually eased up the throttle (on runway 22
of Edwards AFB, 15,000 feet long). The theory was that a very gradual
increase in throttle would ease up on airspeed until I had rudder
authority to hold the aircraft aligned. This seemed to work, but the
runway wasn't long enough, and I still had only 73 knots at the end,
just barely enough to attempt some sort of rotation. This rotation
was successful, but I couldn't hold it steady or maintain a climb
after leaving the ground, so I crashed.

With a Dreamfleet Baron, which is vastly more accurate, I didn't even
get that far. I did get up to about 82 kts, but some part of the
aircraft (not sure which part) hit the runway on rotation, and then I
bounced back down and started spinning on the ground in a circle (but
no crash).

So it doesn't appear to be possible, or it requires a much more
skilled pilot than I am. In theory, you'd think that if you could
gradually build up enough airspeed (on a sufficiently long runway),
you could eventually get into the air, but I didn't have enough space
or skill to do that. That doesn't mean it cannot be done.

How this compares to the real aircraft, I don't know, but it still
seems theoretically possible. If you go to full throttle, obviously
it won't work, but with an extremely long runway that allows extremely
gentle acceleration, it might.

I doubt that anyone has ever tried it for real. What would be the
point? And if it didn't work, you could scratch the aircraft.

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