Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Which reminds me of an accident where the thrust reverser of on of the engines suddenly came in, causing a tremendous yaw. To compensate that teh pilots gave that engine more thrust causing it to spin even more!My buddy who is now officially a King Air pilot was speculating on what sorts of things could catch an experienced pilot off guard ... if you have a runaway prop govener failure, it can make the plane react like the _other_ engine went bad. If you try to shut that down to quickly before figuring out what exactly is going on, you might not realize you are shutting down your good engine ... if you are already < 700' agl, that doesn't leave you much room to figure out what's going on, and things go south pretty quickly up there if you get behind the curve ... all complete speculation, hopefully they will find some clues that shed light on what really happened.
After thinking a bit about this accident I concluded that the most natural reaction is almost always *wrong*!
Instead of giving more thrust to one engine it is better to give the other engine less thrust (at least it buys you time almost all ot the time).
Eri
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