Re: Lycoming engine fails! Pilot survives!

"RR Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
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> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:13:03 GMT, Peter Dohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> >
> >However, there were at least two variants of Rolls Royce Griffon
engines:
> >1 On the Spitfire, it had a single five bladed propeller which
> > rotated in the reverse direction from the propeller on the
> > Merlin engined aircraft.
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> >            I have been told that it killed a few
> > unwary pilots who forgot and pressed the wrong rudder pedal on
> > take-off.   :-(
>
> >Regards,
> >
> >Peter
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Really.
>
> Who told you such?
> Sounds like wannabee myth and legend
> without some serious documentation.

I was told about serious difficulties for pilots converting
(though not about casualties ) in exactly this story
in my PPL ground course. The teacher's identity
is available though not on this forum, but he's certainly
a serious guy with a lot of flying hours (though less than UB of course)
and he's a university teacher besides.
Just before this, he had explained that the TO procedure
for powerful fighters like the P51 Mustang prescribed
several precise steps of adding power and corrective steering,
with lifting the tail somewhere in between.

KA - first flight real soon now