I was once on check ride (in a DC-6 simulator) where the person flying the sim (not me!) ran teh fire proceedure as follows:
Throttle close, closed the number one throttle Feather the engine, feathered the number two engine Mixture control idle-cut off, placed the number three mixture to cut off Fire wall shut off valve pull, pulled the fire wall shut off valve lever for the number four engine Airplane got very quiet. Check pilot got very loud!!! I'm now forced to admit that there IS some use for the view of the props. I don't know about DC3s but in DC6s and DC7s we counted either 6 or 8 blades before giving the engine fuel and ignition. (Do you know why? Answer, to avoid bemding the crankshaft or connecting rods i oil had fun down into a "jug". If it had, the starter motor could not do damage, but if the engine fired it would bent stuff as teh oil in the closed cyl did not compress well <grin>! 6 (or 8) blades insured that the engine had made a full revolution on the starter motor only. jj On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, David Megginson wrote: > Tony Peden writes: > > > In a twin, you'll definitely know which engine is out without > > looking. > > I've read several accident reports where the wrong engine was > feathered and shut down. > > > All the best, > > > David > > -- > David Megginson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
