Switch Tanks, Switch Tanks, Switch Tanks!
During all of my transition trainings, at some appropriate time, I will simulate an engine failure. I have been emphasizing how to manipulate the controls and find a suitable field even if it is the airport. I have not been emphasizing the importance of immediately (and what should be a memory item to do when time is of the essence and there is no time to pull out the checklist) switching tanks.
And as ridiculous and improbable as it may seem to accidentally end up with a tank dry when th
I had a turbo failure 2 years ago that caused a complete engine stoppage at 16,500 ft. As turns out - learned later - the turbo had seized. But before it seized it went through a couple of minutes of burning oil, a lot of oil, most of the oil, that caused a lot of smoke in the cockpit as well. The smoke breached into he cockpit just as the turbo seized and so then engine stopped. So I thought I had an engine out AND a likely fire and I did what I could with the emergency accordingly. I fail
