Multiengine Rating

If all you have is the single hydraulic pump, you select
gear and flaps up before you feather the engine and while
you are pulling the hand lever out. The windmilling engine
will pump the gear and flaps most of the way saving a little
time. You select flaps up, then the gear. The flaps will
pause while the gear retracts and then finish.

Dual pumps were a popular option on privately flown
airplanes, but schools liked the lower cost and the extra
training.


"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in
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| RomeoMike wrote:
| I don't remember exactly, but something like 5000 ft.
for the Geronimo
| comes to mind. I have a copy of a copy of the POH, so
the altitude
| performance chart is unreadable. I aways figured I could
fly on one
| engine in low elevation areas, but in the mountainous
west, particularly
| on a non-standard day, forget it.
|
|
| I can't remember either, mainly because I never had to
worry about it. As a
| flatland pilot, I was more concerned with the PITA hand
pumping of the gear and
| the flaps if I lost the critical engine (which I think was
the right one... it's
| been 16 years since I flew one). Pretty much any altitude
at all would be
| enough to stay clear of obstacles on the routes I flew.
|
|
|
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| Mortimer Schnerd, RN
| mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com
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|

Takeoffs and landings in the Aztec are simply fun. If you don't care
whether or not you can see out the windscreen, just rotate at 80mph, hold
100mph, and it will climb like you say, a scalded cat. Landings can be just
as steep, it will land on any spot you can see over the nose. Hold 85mph
all the way down to 30ft above the deck then ad a short burst of power to
arrest your decent as you level off, you can have it stopped in 500 ft easy.

Jim