Scary! Air NZ Q300 lands with one engine

[Goose]

QUOTE (ZK-KAG @ Nov 18 2008, 12:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yep Ive just completed a ground course on em, and about to get my type rating. Our Seneca's climb at around 300fpm on one engine from a go around. And dunno about your mates 34-V, but we certainly can restart in flight, all the way from feather into fine. However this is not possible on the ground due to insufficient aerodynamic force to bring it out of feather.

Oh really, where'd you do that?

[waka172rg]

QUOTE (SA227 @ Nov 18 2008, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Glad you guys have so much faith in your piston aircraft performance. From experience your 300ft per minute will disappear through a bit of turbulence and not quite perfect pilot technique.
I had to shut one down in a Seneca a number of years ago, it didn't fly very well and fortunately I wasn't faced with any obstacles cause I certainly wasn't going over them. Same applies to the PA31 which is a pig on 1 engine...been there....
Also had to deal with 2 turboprop mechanical failures, now they were easier to cope with than the piston problems but I would rather have been in a jet.

The big advantage of a turbine over a piston in the multi department is that if a turbine fails then the 1st thing you do is sit on hands.

Top job by the Dash crew.

now i have nothing but praise for the Seneca 2 and all multi running on one engine! you have to no how to Handel the situation at hand! the surrounding conditions play a big part to if you cant maintain blue line control crash your a/c as you would a single. I had a dash 8 right engine fail about 3-4 weeks ago noting to worry about from the front was easy to cope with the thing that annoyed me was the lights and noise in the pit we quickly took care of the noise! Last week a fault in the gear light i feared more for the a/c and pax with the no right hand green gear but cap took control and i did radios and flybuy the tower OK land did so and all was good it was just the light
Cheers
Blake

[FlyingKiwi]

Well, certainly in the Duchess on one engine I've seen a 200fpm climb rapidly turn into a 100fpm descent just through turning onto crosswind. Then again I'm not sure the Duchess is known for it's single engine performance.