Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Neil Gould writes:

You only think that because you have no experience in real airplanes.

No, I think that because it's true, despite any idiosyncrasy of human
psychology that causes people to deny it. Many skills and experiences
are not transferable to highly foreign contexts. Being able to hold a
plane in level flight does not equate to being able to taxi. Being
able to taxi or fly with two engines does not equate to being able to
taxi or fly with one engine failing. Furthermore, even speculating on
the unfamiliar scenario is fraught with risk.

By the time one is rated to fly -- anything, not just multi's -- one has
received training in all aspects of the operation of the plane, including
engine out. Taxiing with a single engine would be part of that training.
Even if one is already a multi-rated pilot, you can't just go hop into
some other multi-engine plane that you haven't been checked out in and go
flying. I don't know what the checkout in a Baron is, but I wouldn't be at
all surprised if it is 20-25 *hours* or more of instruction.

Neil