Originally Posted by
sailingfun
How did you takeoff single engine? The 737 will not stay on the runway with one engine at T/O power and the other off. It goes straight into the dirt with the nosewheel skidding. If you ever have one spool and the other not in the real aircraft on TO you get a graphic demonstration.
Simple.. you get a long runway and increase thrust as rudder effectiveness increases. Yes, if you go straight to T/O thrust, you go sideways. But on the -300, you can ease in the power and by 80-90kts you have enough rudder to keep it straight at T/O power.
For the good students who knew how to use rudders, I would dispatch them 'ailerons' inoperative meaning they could not use ailerons just to demonstrate how effective the rudder was. Just put both hands behind the control column and at Vr, rotate by pulling the column aft. NO AILERONS. And after they do that once or twice, give them a V1 cut and again, NO AILERONS.
We did this only when the students were ahead of the training curve and we had hit all the required bases. But it clearly showed the rudder was THE solution to V1 cuts and by introducing lots of aileron, one could really incite an interesting aerial dance.
But the real fun came with V2 cuts just after lift-off.