On Mar 6, 6:15 am, "James Sleeman" wrote:
On Mar 6, 2:42 pm, Orval Fairbairn wrote:

We lost a friend yesterday in a Baron C55. He lost the left engine on
takeoff, apparently stalled, went inverted and lawn darted into the

Let it serve as a reminder to all pilots, especially the twin jockeys,
to practice those engine outs.

The Baron is known to be a handful if an engine poops near Vmc... You
have to be immediate in chopping both throttles in that situation...
In a more perfect world Barons would be flown only by pro pilots (who
are assumed to be current on engine cuts)

denny - who is too old and too slow to be flying a Baron...

Actually, I should be a heavy iron pilot, who when faced with an
engine out, will set his coffee cup down (carefully), nudge the
copilot awake, point at the engine instruments, and say, "Did you see
that?"....