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Quoted: Wow. Not only did he have to make an extremely gentle landing so as not to tear the belly off, but he only had one engine! It looked like he was fighting the plane to keep it level.
That is skill right there.
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He shut down the other engine.
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OK, but still it looked like he was fighting it to keep it level.
Does anyone have any experience with double-engine planes? What is it like to fly with only one engine?
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No big deal on one engine if you are descending. Full power with a full load is another story, however. Once the field is "made", the good engine can be reduced to flight idle, and there is no asymetrical thrust.
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With that load he kept a much higher airspeed on final, in anticipation of a go-around and to keep well above stall speed.
With a twin there is an airspeed, called blue line, that if you are on it or above it and one engine is off and the other is at full power you WON'T stall and torque around the running engine.
Even for some really powerful prop twins such as the C2 your are going to have a shitty climb rate, maybe 200-500 feet per minute, on one engine. This compared to probably 1000-2000 FPM with both engines going.
Many many many people have died due to the following scenario:
Twin with one engine out on final and the pilot lets the airspeed get too low. Once the pilot realizes he can't make the runway he firewalls the remaining engine and tries to climb. If he is below blue line, the aircraft will begin to pull due to asymetric thrust, and the plane will stall and will suddenly roll OVER (or UNDER depending on prop rotation) the running engine because of the torque being produced. At low altitudes this is fatal.