Michelle P writes:

Usually an engine will give you a sign before it dies. A new vibration,
a new leak....

Great! That gives you time to scribble out your last will and
testament before that last spiral into terrain.

THere are some counter rotating but they are few. The seminole is one.
It is commonly said the remaining engine on a multi engine aircraft will
carry you to the scene of the crash. YOu loose half of your power and
80% of your perfomance.

So I've heard. But you're in trouble either way if there's no handy
place to land nearby. And if there _are_ handy places to land,
presumably 20% performance will get you to more of them than 0%
performance.

Check the single engine service cielings. most
non-turbochaged are around 5000 MSL. No good if you are flying out west.
The airplane i fly has a ingle engine service cieling above 18,000. this
is useful.

If the engine fails at altitude, don't you still have a fair amount of
time to fly around while it drifts down to the service ceiling for a
single engine?

Which reminds me: Does flying on one engine put hazardous stress on
the airframe? I especially wonder about twin jets, with their engines
on plyons--the eccentric stresses on the pylon and engine mount must
be tremendous with one engine doing all the work.

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