Originally Posted by
sigep_nm
Personally if I were in a situation in which the aircraft would not climb I would close the throttle on the good engine, pitch forward for a safe airspeed well above stall and dead stick it in. Much better to make a controlled crash than let the airplane control the crash, odds are you are going down either way.
"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash
as possible."
- Bob Hoover
"If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard
down."
- Ernest K. Gann
"When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest
object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible."
- advice given to RAF pilots during WWII
If the good engine hasn't given up on me, why should I give up on it? The power it is producing might be the difference in safely landing in a field, pasture, etc. versus dying in trees, powerlines, houses. If you are trained properly for flying a twin, then flying on one engine is not letting the airplane control the crash...throttling back and making the airplane a several thousand pound glider is.