Nothing Stops the Golf Game

I remember doing ATP training in a Seminole for a pointy nose pilot at IWA. The PTS required a single engine missed approach all the way to the hold. I set the simulated engine out MP, he flew the approach, tried to go missed, and we could barely hold altitude. We flew the length of the runway at 150' as I was slowly bumping MP and telling the guy to pretend it was still "inop". We finally achieved a 200 FPM climb at 16" and flew that to the hold. Shortly thereafter, the flight school came out with a new policy prohibiting us from doing simulated SE missed approaches.

I guess the old adage is true. The second engine is only good for getting you to the crash site.

Instructing in an old, worn down Seneca in Florida we had days with negative single-engine climb performance...

(No accumulator in that plane. Engine outs were always practiced over an airfield.)
 
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