Why didn't the Cessna 337 make it?

On 2006-02-28, Roy Smith wrote:
I would think it would be easy (at least from the engineering perspective)
to display a big red warning light when the RPMs of the two engines differ
by more than a certain percent. Did the 337 have anything like that?

They might not differ, though. In a partial power loss or perhaps a loss
of an engine at a lower power setting (such as approach), the RPM on the
engine not making proper power might still be the RPM selected by the
prop lever. The only way you can tell for certain in all circumnstances
which engine has failed from instruments is from the EGT (and in a
partial power los on approach, even that might be hard).

The 337 would probably have been much better with a pair of Garrett
turboprops or PT6s with autofeathering props :-)

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