Re: Lycoming engine fails! Pilot survives!

>> >            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
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Sorry Karel,
All really experienced pilots I know... just FLY THE AIRPLANE
when they are through reading 'the book'. 

Your instructor may be a serious guy as a professor, but as a 
first class pilot, I have some reservations. Read Rick Pellicciotti's
post and you will be on the right track, IMHO.

Maybe BIg John, as an experienced P-51 pilot, will add
to your knowledge base about P-51 TO procedures.
By the book....AND by his personal experience.  
What say you, John?  <g>

FWIW....
No question, the military has 'numbers' for everything.
As aviation cadets in the '50's, the USAF had us 
memorize tons and tons of precise numbers.
Shit... they even had exact procedures for us 
underclassmen on how to eat a military meal.

It was a bitch Karel, a real bitch !
Half the guys washed out early on.

Barnyard BOb - first flight way over 50 years ago.