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Originally Posted by sigep_nm
Let me make this easier for you. Slower airspeed (transition for landing) aircraft barely flying as is, probably a high pitch attitude, high power setting (obviously as stated before we are trying to climb) = Probably more rudder than you got, which tada = aircraft crashed and upside down on runway (stall) or aircraft crashed upside down off the side of the runway (loss of directional control). Closing the throttle and dead sticking it in solves it all. If it wont climb then you have to eat the sh89 on your plate and deal with it. As far as obstructions and stuff that you were talking about, probably should have planned for those to begin with. But I wouldnt expect an amatuer to look that far ahead.
I am not saying land the airplane with full throttle on your good engine. That is not even done when you lose an engine en route or approaching the airport for landing. All I am saying is don't be so darn quick to yank the good engine you have remaining in an effort to maintain control.
As far as stall or a Vmc roll (more than likely you will get to Vmc before a full blown departure stall condition), what the heck are you doing that slow to begin with? Look at #2 in my original post...pitch for blue line. 90% of the time this will be a pitch
down, not
up. Yes, you will have a degradation of airspeed, but if you wait until you are closer to VYse on the takeoff roll, you will have a larger margin of error when it comes to airspeed degradation resulting in a few more seconds to let the good engine have a chance to help rather than yanking the power back and giving up so quickly.
You talk about maintaining control, yet your procedure of "dead sticking" (of course you know this means killing the good engine completely, no power available at all now), you have made the airplane a huge flying brick and taken all control out of the situation and given it over to an airplane (primary job is to kill you) and a higher power (depending on your beliefs).
As far as obstructions are concerned, you should treat every multi engine departure as if you are going to lose an engine at the worst possible time. Not only is this good common sense, but it is also good preflight planning. Knowing the area immediately around the airport is just a vital as for multi engine flight as checking the oil in your engines and draining your fuel sumps.
Do what you like, but for me, I am not giving up on that engine...just because I am not climbing, doesn't mean I am not
maintaining altitude.