My wife getting scared

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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As far as anybody can speculate, he must have thought the first engine
failure was due to problems with the new engine, not a fuel problem, but
nobody can explain why he didn't switch tanks when the second one failed.

A very sad story.
I'm only a new pilot, but I reakon that the first thing my eye would go to
if I had an engine failure would be the fuel gauges. It just seems like
common sense or instinct to me. Maybe when you're faced with an engine
failure, common sense can sometimes go out the window in the panic.
Crash Lander
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In a previous article, "Crash Lander" said:
common sense or instinct to me. Maybe when you're faced with an engine
failure, common sense can sometimes go out the window in the panic.

That's why as a student pilot you're drilled on the emergency checklist
until you know it without thinking. I don't know about the plane you fly,
but on mine it's
1. FLY THE PLANE
2. Pick a landing spot
3. FLY THE PLANE
4. Everything forward (throttle, prop, mixture)
5. FLY THE PLANE
6. Everything up (flaps, gear)
7. FLY THE PLANE
8. Fuel pump on. Switch tanks.
9. FLY THE PLANE
10. Carb heat or alternate air
11. FLY THE PLANE
12. Make emergency radio calls
13. FLY THE PLANE
14. Prepare to land.

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Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
God is real, unless declared as an integer.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:03:37 +0000 (UTC), Paul Tomblin wrote:

9. FLY THE PLANE
10. Carb heat or alternate air

I see some logic to moving carb heat to number one on engine outs with the
thought that if it was carb ice, you don't want to give the exhaust
manifolds a chance to cool down and you want to give carb heat all the time
you can to melt any accumulations.

Make any sense?

--
Dallas

In a previous article, said:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:03:37 +0000 (UTC), Paul Tomblin wrote:

9. FLY THE PLANE
10. Carb heat or alternate air

I see some logic to moving carb heat to number one on engine outs with the
thought that if it was carb ice, you don't want to give the exhaust
manifolds a chance to cool down and you want to give carb heat all the time
you can to melt any accumulations.

Make any sense?

Yes, I think you're right. The checklist was taught to me as a left to
right flow across the panel, but the one time I lost power on take-off in
the winter, I actually did the carb heat immediately and it worked.


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Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
Three of your friends throw up after eating chicken salad. Do you think
"I should find more robust friends" or "we should check that refrigerator"?
-- Donald Becker, on vortex-bug, suspecting a network-wide problem