The Baron is a pussycat, you've got to be a dolt to screw it
up.


"Denny" wrote in message
oups.com...
| 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?"....
|